Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 16 January 2022
“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 & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 4 October 2020
“However long your stay on this small planet lasts, and whatever happens during it, the most important thing is that-from time to time-you feel life’s sweet caress.” Words to live by as told by William Boyd in his sixteenth novel, Sweet Caress. This week you’ll notice a audacious, sweeping, rich layer cake of a showcase, a gasping hall of mirrors of lives, well lived. Enjoy! Thank you to all the talented artists for submitting your works to ourshowcasethis week. If you would like your work to be considered for entry in to our weekly Mobile Photography and ArtFlickr Group, please submit it to our dedicated group,here. You can also submit…
New Podcast Series with TheAppWhisperer, Jack Hollingsworth (@photojack) and Greg McMillan (@mcmillan_photo)
We are excited to announce that we have teamed up with good friends of TheAppWhisperer, Jack Hollingsworth – @photojack and Greg McMillan – @mcmillan_photo, to host a new joint podcast series entitled ‘Camera Roll – iPhone Photos That Don’t Suck – a joint venture with Jack Hollingsworth and TheAppWhisperer’‘. We will still have our own existing podcast channel running at Apple, and these podcasts will also be shared there too. We have lots of astonishing content coming your way, stay tuned for that…
