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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 2 February 2020
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties“, writes Erich Fromm, one of the most prescient thinkers of the 20th century. Love and creativity play a huge part of my life and it is physical. Love of art, the art of loving, irrational, intellectual, obsessive, insightful. Professor Semir Zeki, a neurobiologist at the University College London, proved in a series of pioneering brain-mapping experiments that viewing art triggers a surge of dopamine, the feel-good chemicial, into the orbito-frontal cortex of the brain, resulting in feelings of intense pleasure, the same part of the brain that is excited, when we fall for someone, romantically. For all of us associated with…
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Mobile Photography Intimate Interview with Sidonie Petit from Normandy, France
Our ninety sixth interview in this series of intimate interviews is with talented mobile photographer Sidonie Petit from Normandy France. You may know her from her popular Instagram account, @sidonie.petit – Fragments of My Mind. With her gorgeous and patiently realised mobile imagery, Petit searches for a spiritual dimension within the calm of nature. Enjoy! To read the other published interviews in this series including artists, Adria Ellis, Rino Rossi, Mehmet Duyulmus, Alexis Rotella, Lou Ann Sanford Donahue, Irene Oleksiuk, Kerry Mitchell, Filiz Ak, Dale Botha, M. Cecilia Sao Thiago, Deborah McMillion, Rita Colantonio, Amy Ecenbarger, Jane Schultz, Anca Balaj, Joyce Harkin, Armineh Hovanesian, Kate Zari Roberts, Vicki Cooper, Peter Wilkin, Barbara Braman, Becky Menzies, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Sarah Bichachi, Michel Pretterklieber, Alon Goldsmith, Judy Lurie Wahlberg, Andrea Bigiarini, Sean Hayes, Oola Cristina, Kathleen Magner-Rios Linda Toki, Deb Field, Emilo Nadales, Lydia Cassatt, David Hayes, Jean Hutter, Frederic…
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Mobile Photography / Art New Year Resolutions 2020 From Artists Throughout The World
We are delighted to publish our New Year Resolutions for 2020 from a selection of highly talented mobile photographers and artists throughout the world. As in previous years we have asked mobile photographers and artists for their New Year Resolutions with an accompanying image or video . Thank you to everyone who has contributed, they all make great reading, viewing and are inspiring, we are forever grateful to you all. For TheAppWhisperer, 2020 is going to be a very exhilarating year and new decade. We intend to continue but to an even greater extent promote mobile photography and art, this includes all the current mobile photographers and talented artists already known…
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Mobile Photography Intimate Interview with Founder Camilla Crescini from @GirlsinMuseums and Co-Founder Francesca Malagoli
Our ninety fifth interview in this series of intimate interviews is with talented mobile photographer and founder Camilla Crescini from the @girlsinmuseums Instagram account as well as mobile photographer and co-founder Francesca Malagoli. @girlsinmuseums is a digital hub for posts, pics and comments regarding the role of women in the arts and culture via the hashtag #girlsinmuseums. @girlsinmuseums started in early 2015 and its aim is to collect photographs of women and girls in museums, galleries and cultural venues. The photographs are tracked through the use of the hashtag #girlsinmuseums via social networks. #girlsinmuseums’ daily activity is mainly focused on pointing out the gender gap that is still to be…
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Mobile Photography Intimate Interview with Massimo Bortolini from Belgium
Our ninety fourth interview in this series of intimate interviews is with talented mobile photographer and artist Massimo Bortolini from Belgium. You may know him from his popular Instagram page @bortolinimassimo. This is a wonderful interview celebrating really wonderful mobile photography. Enjoy! To read the other published interviews in this series including artists, Adria Ellis, Rino Rossi, Mehmet Duyulmus, Alexis Rotella, Lou Ann Sanford Donahue, Irene Oleksiuk, Kerry Mitchell, Filiz Ak, Dale Botha, M. Cecilia Sao Thiago, Deborah McMillion, Rita Colantonio, Amy Ecenbarger, Jane Schultz, Anca Balaj, Joyce Harkin, Armineh Hovanesian, Kate Zari Roberts, Vicki Cooper, Peter Wilkin, Barbara Braman, Becky Menzies, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Sarah Bichachi, Michel Pretterklieber, Alon Goldsmith, Judy…
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Mobile Photography Intimate Interview with Kathryn Garkut from The Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia
Our ninety third interview in this series of intimate interviews is with talented mobile photographer and artist Kathryn Garkut from from The Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. You may know her from her Instagram account @one_two_bucklemyshoe. This interview provides highly readable and relatable text whilst simultaneously dazzling us with intriguing photography. Enjoy. To read the other published interviews in this series including artists, Adria Ellis, Rino Rossi, Mehmet Duyulmus, Alexis Rotella, Lou Ann Sanford Donahue, Irene Oleksiuk, Kerry Mitchell, Filiz Ak, Dale Botha, M. Cecilia Sao Thiago, Deborah McMillion, Rita Colantonio, Amy Ecenbarger, Jane Schultz, Anca Balaj, Joyce Harkin, Armineh Hovanesian, Kate Zari Roberts, Vicki Cooper, Peter Wilkin, Barbara Braman, Becky…
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Mobile Photography Intimate Interview with Philip Parsons @hereinmyownskin from Cardiff, Wales, UK
Our ninety second interview in this series of intimate interviews is with talented mobile photographer and artist Philip Parsons from Cardiff, Wales. You may know him from his popular Instagram account @hereinmyownskin. “Mobile photography became a passion for me in early 2012 thanks largely to Instagram. Initially I shot with their filters and exploring Instagram, I became hooked discovering what was possible with mobile art. After a year or so I opened a second Instagram account @hereinmyownskin and I started experimenting with colour”, explains Parsons of his mobile photographic career, to date. Parsons images present a combination of natural and landscape scenes but also some relatively dilapidated man-made scenes from around…
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Mobile Photography & Art Intimate Interview with Francesco Sambati from Lecce, South Italy
Our ninety first interview in this series of intimate interviews is with talented photographer and artist Francesco Sambati from Lecce, a city in Southern Italy. Sambati’s photographs have visually excited me for some time. We have featured his work through many of our showcases over the years. His use of colour, shapes, light of course, ensure an almost hallucinatory effect as his creative, gentle vision, dazzles and exhilarates. Enjoy this illustrious interview with deeply honest words to boot. To read the other published interviews in this series including artists, Adria Ellis, Rino Rossi, Mehmet Duyulmus, Alexis Rotella, Lou Ann Sanford Donahue, Irene Oleksiuk, Kerry Mitchell, Filiz Ak, Dale Botha, M. Cecilia…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 8 December 2019
The life of an artist encompasses many avenues, one perhaps that I am frequently reminded of is the need for solitude, to create. French philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre said ‘hell is other people‘. Sometimes I agree, sometimes I disagree with this sentiment, like many, it depends on the company. Orson Welles said ‘we’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone’, I disagree, I was fully present when my three children were born, I’ve never lived alone and nor would wish to and I’d be surprised if I die alone. I have experienced a death of a loved one, who died alone but many of the deaths I have experienced, have…
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Mobile Photography Intimate Interview with Amado Ergana from Ethiopia, Africa
Our ninetieth interview in this series of intimate interviews is with talented photographer and artist Amado Ergana from Ethiopia, Africa. You may know Ergana’s imagery from his popular Instagram account @ergana.amado. Ergana’s photography epitomises the craft of light and shadow, of course the former defining the meaning of photography. The Ethiopian light itself plays a key role in his work, as Amado deftly tames the light and shadow around his subjects moving beyond the ordinary and into the realm of dramatic street portraiture. Inclusive of his imagery, he draws us in with his revealing text, this is an interview that profoundly peels and exposes the senses. Enjoy! To read the…