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Mobile Photography & Art – Portrait of an Artist – Seeing Through The Eyes Of Christine Sobczak

03/01/201903/01/2019 by Ile Mont

We are delighted to bring to you the first of this years series of interviews and the thirteenth of this fascinating series, within our Portrait of an Artist column entitled “Seeing through the eyes…”. This is a section that has been created by our wonderful Portrait of an Artist Editor, Ile Mont. Mont has been inspired by the life and works of Carolyn Hall Young, as so many of us have. Young was the main contributor to our Portrait of an Artist Flickr pool and filled it with portraits of so many wonderful people, not only of herself. It is for this reason that Mont wanted to create this section, to enable us to view the artists style through their own eyes. At the end of each interview, Mont will keep Young’s tradition alive, with a portrait of herself, seen through the eyes of the artist. In this case, you will see that at the end of this interview there is a portrait of Mont, seen through the eyes of Christine Sobczak, what a gift!

Please continue to post your mobile portraiture to our dedicated Flickr group or use this hashtag on Instagram #tawportraitofanartist, this way, Mont will search through these artists first to interview. (Foreword by Joanne Carter).

All images in this interview ©Christine Sobczak, with the final image a collaboration ©Ile Mont/Christine Sobczak.

(To view our other published interviews in this series, please go here).

Mobile Photography & Art – Online Gallery and Print Sales via Facebook

23/11/201823/11/2018 by Joanne Carter

We wanted to ensure all of our readers are aware that as well as going directly to our Online Gallery boutique here, to make a purchase, they can also visit our Instagram shop and also purchase directly through Facebook too. We detailed the steps to make a purchase via our Instagram shop recently, if you missed that, please go here. The following steps will help you place an order directly within Facebook and we currently have 30% off some of our collections, don’t miss this!

Mobile Art and Photography That Has Influenced Me with Jo Sullivan from the United States

19/11/201819/11/2018 by Jo Sullivan

We are delighted to bring you the twenty first in our brand new Mobile Art and Photography that has Influenced Me series of interviews at TheAppWhisperer. Within this series, we contact well established and highly regarded mobile photographers and artists and ask them a sequence of questions. Each one relates to mobile art and photography that has inveigled and continues to impact them, by other mobile artists throughout the world. Our twenty first interview is with Jo Sullivan from the United States, enjoy!

In this interview, Sullivan cites work by: Ile Mont, Vermeer, Klimt, Dorothea Lange, Margritte, Lorenka Campos, Oola Cristina and Anita Magsaysay-Ho.

To read others in this series please go here.

(foreword by Joanne Carter)

Mobile Art and Photography That Has Influenced Me – Interview with Fiona Christian from the United Kingdom

10/07/201809/07/2018 by Joanne Carter

We are delighted to bring you the fourth in our brand new ‘Mobile Art and Photography that has Influenced Me’ series of interviews at TheAppWhisperer. Within this series, we contact well established and highly regarded mobile photographers and artists and ask them a sequence of questions. Each one relates to mobile art and photography that has inveigled and continues to impact them, by other mobile artists throughout the world. Our fourth interview is with Fiona Christian from the UK, enjoy!

In this interview, Christian cites work by Mike Ryan, Jeff Burgess, Catherine Restivo, Gianluca Ricoveri, Karen Tetrault, Clint Cline, Arjan van der Horst, Annie Helmsworth, Christine Mignon, Sabine Gromek, Giogiopoliti.

To read others in this series please go here.

“Firstly, I must thank Joanne for asking me to do this. It’s been lovely, wandering down memory lane. It has reminded me of so many more images than I can show here. I could have picked any image from any of these artists and applied it to any of the categories!”

Infographic – From Kodak to iPhonography – The Evolution of Photography into Social Media

11/06/201811/06/2018 by Antonio Lenza

I am delighted to publish this infographic ‘From Kodak to iPhonography – The Evolution of Photography into Social Media’. Produced by our colleagues at the London School of Photography. Antonio Leanza explains in the following text how social media has influenced the way we capture images as well as our preferred hardware for shooting. (Foreword by Joanne Carter)

“Photography is a medium we can all relate to on a personal level, whether that’s re-living the happy memories of a family photo or observing the emotions through a breath-taking landscape image. It’s also a medium that some of us have accidentally taken for granted. Has it ever occurred to you just how much the photographic industry has grown through time?

The Kodak to iPhonography infographic – created by our content team over at the London School of Photography is aimed to educate readers by covering a brief history of how the camera first came about, its evolution through time and the impact social media has had on the photographic world and the ever-rising “smartphone photography” movement.

From the initial stages of the Camera Obscura and its invention in the 1800’s all the way through to the conception of Instagram – photography as we know it today has grown so vastly that it has become a universal medium that is shareable and speaks a thousand words. Instagram is one of the many social media applications that is responsible for such demand in high-quality yet fast image creation on the go, hence the increased innovation that’s gone into creating technologically advanced smartphones”.

Apple Previews iOS 12 Shared AR Experiences, Fun New Ways to Communicate and Screen Time Come to iPhone and iPad This Fall

05/06/201804/06/2018 by Joanne Carter

Apple today announced iOS 12, the latest version of the most advanced mobile operating system, designed to make everyday tasks faster and more responsive. iOS 12 changes the way iOS users see the world using AR, makes communications fun and expressive with Memoji and Group FaceTime, and with Screen Time, helps customers understand and take control of the time they spend interacting with their iOS devices. iOS 12 introduces Siri Shortcuts, enabling Siri to work with any app, delivering a much faster way to get things done.

“We’re very excited about the new communications features we’re bringing to iPhone and iPad with Memoji, a more personal form of Animoji, fun camera effects and Group FaceTime,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “With iOS 12, we’re enabling new experiences that weren’t possible before. We’re using advanced algorithms to make AR even more engaging and on-device intelligence to deliver faster ways to get things done using Siri.”

Visualising Mobile Photography and Art Interview with Christine Mignon from Vienna, Austria

11/04/2018 by Joanne Carter

Today, we are publishing our nineteenth visual interview, this time with Christine Mignon from Vienna, Austria. Mignon absorbs not just the streets but humans in nature too, alchemizing them into mesmerising and intricately constructed mobile images. As a photographer she nudges mobile photography to its limits, as an artist she is uncannily commanding.

Mignon’s images lie within the genres of street and landscape and nature and within each it is the human element that leads. I sense it and also having met her in London, I feel intuitively that’s what she seeks. Many of her street scenes are romanticised, and that’s no bad thing. Streets are hard and hardness is often seen on the faces captured in street photography but not so much with Mignon’s work. There’s a sense of the hard grind of street life but there’s also a focus on the good things that happen on the streets, of joy and happiness. Deep down, we all seek to romanticise the past, the future and the present, why not? Mignon, senses and gifts us that, hitting us on a deeply personal level.

I am so excited about this new Interview section within TheAppWhisperer. A picture speaks a thousand words, so says the English language idiom and as this is a website by and for visual artists, we felt this section was long overdue. We asked a series of mobile photographers and artists ten questions, in text format and we asked them to respond in their very best way, visually and in their own style of photography/art, the results are unique and incredibly exciting.

To read our previously published interviews, with Deborah McMillion, M. Cecilia Sao Thiago, Christine Sobczak, Liliana Schwitter, Armineh Hovanesian, Lorenka Campos, Donna Donato, Eliza Badoiu, Juta Jazz, Susan Rennie, Kate Zari Roberts, Lynette Sheppard, Debara Splendorio, Irene Oleksiuk, Davide Capponi, Vanessa Vox, Amanda Parker and Clint Cline please go here.

The Fluid Self: Visualising New Identities

06/03/2018 by Joanne Carter

This month Adobe Stock are exploring the ways our views of identity are changing and how Adobe are looking to bring greater diversity to stock.

Adobe’s Principal of Creative and Visual Trends, Brenda Milis highlights that, “Identity is so much less permanent and stable than it used to be. Just consider the fact that Facebook has 71 gender options now. There are endless permutations of individual identity. A few years ago, people were talking about race or ethnicity, then body type, abilities, and age. Now we’re looking at the fluid self—identity as a vast and ever-changing range of ideas that should all be celebrated.” As we examine this trend, we’ll consider how brands are adapting to emerging definitions of the self.

Chinese New Year: The Year of the Dog: More than half of UK dog owners take more pictures of their dog than their family or friends

16/02/201816/02/2018 by Joanne Carter

2018 is set to be the Year of the Dog in more ways than one, as Huawei, one of the global technology leaders, reveals that more than half (55%) of dog owners across the UK confess to taking more photos of their four-legged sidekicks than their family or friends. The study of more than 1,000 dog owners across the UK was conducted by Huawei to celebrate the recent launch of its Huawei Mate 10 Pro, the world’s first AI-enabled smartphone that automatically recognises dogs and other objects, making it easier for people to take pics of their pets like a pro.

On average, dog owners in the UK take 202 pictures of their furry friends each year, with people in Edinburgh the most snap happy, taking 298 of their pooches per year, followed by dog owners in Bristol and Leeds at 283 and 256 photos per year respectively.

Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (722) via Instagram

15/01/2018 by Joanne Carter

Here’s day seven hundred and twenty two of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer.

To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer.

Today, we congratulate photographer and mobile artist, @jan_verboom – Jan Verboom with this breathtaking image.

View more of his body of work here.