Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Up Against the Wall: Graffiti Me and Fotoffiti
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look two apps, Graffiti Me and Fotofiffi. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “There are thousands of photography/art apps on the App Store, and some of them are extreme specialised. That’s the case with the two apps I’ll be covering this time: Graffiti Me by Bluebear Technologies Ltd and Fotoffiti by amioli. Each take your image, run a Threshold filter on it, and apply it to a wall as if you’ve stenciled it there. Each allow you to add extra paint and text. Each also run on both the…
Mostly Mobile Photography & Mobile Art – Tickle Your Fancy #53
Welcome back to our fifty second post in our ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ section. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. Enjoy!
Stunning Art Residences for Photographers – Around The World
Artist Residences offer time for reflection, research and inspiration. No two art residencies are the same but each offers you the opportunity to step out of your usual surroundings and daily routine and can have a profound impact on your life and career. Take a look at this gorgeous art residences… Link for more information
Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 26 June 2016
“Never say you know the last word about any human heart”, a quotation by Henry James from the rich tapestry of a book I am currently reading, Any Human Heart by William Boyd. Art links all around us and we need to be able to tie it altogether, to make it whole. Human expression within this weeks mobile photography and art Flickr Group Showcase, speaks to us. Worldly wise, yet perilously frail, many of these images demonstrate the agony and ecstasy of love and life lived. This weeks showcase is a wholly humane romance and a worthy treat for all of us. Enjoy! If you would like your work to…
Hasselblad Announces Groundbreaking X1D – Not Mobile Photography But…
Not mobile photography but as my partner has been covering this event live, via Sweden and I found it incredibly interesting, I thought our readers might too. It’s been heavily rumoured for some time but now it is official. Weighing less than half that of a conventional digital medium format camera, the mirrorless 50MP camera is a game changer in the world of photography. Inspired by the brand’s iconic design heritage, the camera is ergonomic and compact, offering a handling experience unlike any other. Handmade in Sweden, the X1D combines Scandinavian sensibility with beautiful performance. Like the iconic V System, the X1D seamlessly combines portability with excellent optical quality for…
Mobile Photography – Portrait of an Artist – Seventeenth Video Showcase – TheAppWhisperer
Welcome to our seventeenth Portrait of an Artist Showcase! This Showcase complements our Portrait of an Artist Column edited by Ile Mont. Every two weeks Mont will review and curate work that has been submitted to our dedicated Flickr group. In addition, we will create a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we will also highlight a few images that have caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how)…
Absolut Partners with The h. Club Foundation to support their Emerging Creatives Programme
Absolut is proud to partner with the London’s hub for the creative industries The Hospital Club and the h.Club Foundation an independent charitable entity established to use the Club’s membership, staff and resources to invest back into both the creative industries and the local community. As part of the Foundation’s ‘Emerging Creatives Programme’, Absolut will support and nurture emerging talent from the art and design world. The first spirit brand to forge genuinely close ties with the creative community, Absolut has been active in the art world since 1986, when it invited Andy Warhol to create the first in a series of iconic advertisements inspired by the Absolut bottle. Since…
Leica and Huawei – Smartphone Photography Partnership
Leica and Chinese Telecom giant Huawei have formed a smartphone photography partnership. That very sentence is quite extraordinary, on the surface Leica and Huawei make strange bedfellows but dig beneath the luscious silk sheets and you will find some stimulating smart moves. Both Leica and Huawei have a lot to gain by this partnership, Leica want a slice of the smartphone photography pie. Huawei is the third largest smartphone manufacturer in the world and in 2015 sold more than 100 million devices. Richard Yu, CEO of the HUAWEI Consumer BG said: “We choose our partners carefully, and with this extraordinary collaboration we are offering our wide customer base and consumers the best…
David Hockney at the Tate – Britain’s Biggest Show!
Tate Britain will be staging an extensive retrospective of David Hockney’s works. The show will cover six decades of Hockney’s work. Opening in London in 2017 before travelling to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This is one show not to be missed. Celebrating his 80th birthday, next year, Hockney is very much involved with the Tate’s show. The show will feature his very early work from 1960, through to work he has created during the 2000’s. David Hockney opens at Tate Britain on 9 February 2017, I can’t wait!
Fabulous New Mobile Photography Book by Dilshad Corleone – Ink Mirrors!
We are delighted to publish news of this fabulous new iBook by our contributor Dilshad Corleone. Ink Mirrors is full of vivid imagery and memorable descriptions. Corelone who captured all the mobile images within this book at the London Tattoo Convention 2015, takes on the mystery and psychology of the exhilarating world of tattoos, and their models. Corleone has created a stunning photo book, full of passion with an evocative sense of place and subtle insights into the minds as well as the bodies of these tattoo fanatics. This book is respectful and pays homage to the incredible assortment of characters throughout. It’s eccentric and surreal. Highly recommended. Ink Mirrors…
























