Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 14 June 2020
“In these last decades ‘concerned’ photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it”, Sontag, S. On Photography (1979). Sontag argued that beleaguering the public with sensationalist photographs of war and poverty was a definitive way to numb the public’s response. Sontag believed that the more distressing images people viewed, the more immune they became to their impact; viewers became reduced to inaction, either through guilt or a dismissive lethargy towards making a difference. Sontag reversed this view in Regarding the Pain of Others (2004), but ‘compassion fatigue’ is still used as an argument against war imagery today. I have been thinking about this a…
Mobile Photography and Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 7 June 2020
It’s no secret that I have been romantically linked with a vast number of visually literate artforms over the years. Art raises awareness and elicits empathy for the matters at stake but sometimes we have to bend the message towards a more subjective and conceptualised direction. When I make art, it’s intimate, romantic, dramatic, confessional, I am metaphorically seduced. I’ll never tire of romance, it’s the only vice I have and my production is expeditious. Collectively, we have to believe that art has this power, this charisma, potential for magic and you don’t need to look further than this weeks Mobile Photography and Art showcase for that. Enjoy! If you…
TrueView Video ‘How Has Covid-19 Affected Your Mobile Art? with Fleur Schim from California, United States
I am so proud to publish our ninth new TrueView Video today with highly talented and award winning mobile artist Fleur Schim from California. You may recall, our TrueView Video‘s are a unique glimpse into the life and times of mobile artists within our community. With each TrueView Video we pose one singular question and we ask the artist to record their answer to video. This time our question to Fleur Schim was “how has Covid-19 affected your mobile art?”. I really enjoyed listening to Fleur Schim’s dialogue this morning within this TrueView interview. Schim’s understanding of our current phenomenon with this pandemic is refreshingly optimistic and energetic but in a serene way. It…
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Mobile Photography and Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 31 May 2020
“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon the possibility of freedom – and thus its significance – in a world dominated by apparatuses [cameras], to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us”. A quote from Towards a Philosophy of Photography by Vilém Flusser, 2000, I’ve been reading this week. It’s an interesting account modelling a distinction between ‘light writing’ (photography) and writing text itself. It’s a good academic…
TrueView Video ‘How Has Covid-19 Affected Your Mobile Art? with Lynette Sheppard from Hawaii, United States
I am so proud to publish our eighth new TrueView Video today with highly talented and award winning mobile artist Lynette Sheppard from Hawaii, United States. You may recall, our TrueView Video‘s are a unique glimpse into the life and times of mobile artists within our community. With each TrueView Video we pose one singular question and we ask the artist to record their answer to video. This time our question to Lynette Sheppard was “how has Covid-19 affected your mobile art?”. Sheppards’s answer to this thought provking question offers intriuging juxtapositions of art and the present, events at the core of modernism. This is a compelling and honest account, questioning how unconditionally time…
TrueView Video ‘How Has Covid-19 Affected Your Mobile Art? with Sukru Mehmet Omur from Turkey, now living in Paris, France
I am so proud to publish our sixth new TrueView Video today with highly talented mobile artist, Sukru Mehmet Omur originally from Turkey and now relocated to Paris, France. You may recall, our TrueView Video‘s are a unique glimpse into the life and times of mobile artists within our community. With each TrueView Video we pose one singular question and we ask the artist to record their answer to video. This time our question to Sukru Mehmet Omur was “how has Covid-19 affected your mobile art?”. Omur takes the time to explain and share with us his Covid-19 diary as he explains his artistic life during this pandemic. Please view the video for more.…
Mobile Photography and Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 24 May 2020
“When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match : a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accomodate”, John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1972. The way in which we see things is affected by what we already know or what we believe we know. By making a distinction between imagery and text as information systems, we know that seeing comes before words but when you read a sentence, you read it from beginning to end, in a linear way; you don’t repeatedly return to different words within the sentence and reread them. When you look at…
TrueView Video ‘How Has Covid-19 Affected Your Mobile Art?’ With Carol Schiraldi from Texas, United States
I am so proud to publish our fifth new TrueView Video today with highly talented mobile artist, Carol Schiraldi from Texas, United States . You may recall, our TrueView Video‘s are a unique glimpse into the life and times of mobile artists within our community. With each TrueView Video we pose one singular question and we ask the artist to record their answer to video. This time our question to Carol Schiraldi was “how has Covid-19 affected your mobile art?”. She has created a series of unique images desmonstrating the consequences of Covid-19 upon her and the community in which she lives, as well as creating an oral narration that is so inspiring…
TrueView Video ‘How Has Covid-19 Affected Your Mobile Art?’ With Alon Goldsmith from Los Angeles, California, United States
I am so proud to publish our fourth new TrueView Video today with hugely talented mobile photographer, Alon Goldsmith from Los Angeles, California. You may recall, our TrueView Video‘s are a unique glimpse into the life and times of mobile artists within our community. With each TrueView Video we pose one singular question and we ask the artist to record their answer to video. This time our question to Alon Goldsmith was “how has Covid-19 affected your mobile art?”. He has captured a series of unique images from around Los Angeles revealing the consequences of Covid-19 upon the community, please view the video for more. It’s truly unifying to see and hear artists…
Mobile Photography and Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 17 May 2020
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