Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 6 February 2022
You may have heard of Dr Megan Poe, she is a 46 year old psychiatrist and associate professor who teaches an undergraduate course on love, which she designed at New York University. It has achieved overwhelming success. The course is called ‘Love Actually’ and attempts to pack as much about the human experience of love in, as is possible. The course leans heavily on the work of Eric Fromm, the psychologist best known for his 1956 book, The Art of Loving. What I love about the syllabus of this class, is at its core, albeit a psychology class, its emphasis is on love, through art. As described in The Guardian…
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 Artists on Their Artistry – Interview with Phyllis Shenny from New Jersey, United States
We are delighted to publish the eighteenth of our new styled interview entitled ‘Mobile Artists on Their Artistry’. Within this interview, we ask highly successful mobile artists twenty questions about their backgrounds, their work, social media, how Covid-19 has influenced their creative life and so much more… Today, we are proud to feature Award Winning mobile artist Phyllis Shenny who resides in New Jersey, United States. Shenny teaches therapeutic mobile art within the Cancer Support Community to help patients process what they are going through in a creative way. To read our other interviews in this series with Jane Schultz, Susan Latty, Cindy Karp, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Deborah Kleven Morbeto, Patty Larson, Adrian McGarry,…
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Mobile Artists on Their Artistry – Interview with Mariëtte Schrijver from the Netherlands
We are delighted to publish the seventeenth of our new styled interview entitled ‘Mobile Artists on Their Artistry’. Within this interview, we ask highly successful mobile artists twenty questions about their backgrounds, their work, social media, how Covid-19 has influenced their creative life and so much more… Today, we are proud to feature highly talented mobile artist Mariëtte Schrijver who resides in Amersfoort in the Netherlands. She is very proud to have exhibited her work in the Rijksmuseum of art Amsterdam. Schrijver is an artist whose illness has often impinged on the various readings of her work, imbuing these already complex images with another layer of mystery and, in some cases, foreboding. Almost hiding in…
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Mobile Artists on Their Artistry – Interview with Christine Mignon from Vienna, Austria
We are delighted to publish the sixteenth of our new styled interview entitled ‘Mobile Artists on Their Artistry’. Within this interview, we ask highly successful mobile artists twenty questions about their backgrounds, their work, social media, how Covid-19 has influenced their creative life and so much more… Today, we are proud to feature highly talented and newly self-employed mobile artist Christine Mignon who resides in the beautiful city of Vienna, Austria. Her work revolves around visual storytelling, focusing on people, places and memories. To read our other interviews in this series with Jane Schultz, Susan Latty, Cindy Karp, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Deborah Kleven Morbeto, Patty Larson, Adrian McGarry, Catherine Caddigan, Rita Colantonio, Sarah Bichachi,…
Portrait of an Artist Column – Cover Photos of 2021
We are delighted to publish this video showcase of the cover photos of 2021 from our Portrait of an Artist group created by our highly qualified and Award Winning Editor, Maria Cecilia de São Thiago. All images were originally selected from our dedicated Flickr Group as well as our Instagram Group. Please take a look at this video and the high level of work that continues to astound us. If you would like to be featured, in the future, please ensure you’re contributing your images to these groups so we can find and include your work. Huge thanks and many congratulations to M Cecilia Sao Thiago and to all she has included here.…
Through A New Lens: Works from the World-Wide Mobile Photography Movement Exhibition
I am so proud to announce the Perspective Gallery is to present “Through A New Lens”, an exhibition by seven internationally-recognized iPhoneographers. The exhibit, curated by my dear friend and museum professional, art historian and photographer, Gina Costa, demonstrates a broad range of styles and approaches used by mobile technology. Works range from traditional, “straight” photographs, to abstract and highly “apped” works of art. Visitors to the exhibition will observe the incredible span of possibilities mobile technology permits. The evolution of mobile photography can be understood as the logical next step of developments in the history of photography. Technically, what preceded the mobile photography movement led naturally to its adoption,…
Mobile Artists on Their Artistry – Interview with Mehmet Duyulmuş from Istanbul, Turkey
We are delighted to publish the thirteenth of our new styled interview entitled ‘Mobile Artists on Their Artistry’. Within this interview, we ask highly successful mobile artists twenty questions about their backgrounds, their work, social media, how Covid-19 has influenced their creative life and so much more… Today, we are proud to feature our latest interview, this time, with award winning artist Mehmet Duyulmuş from Istanbul, Turkey. Many of his sumptuous images have been vigorously created and inventively staged, altogether leading to a rich and rewarding interview, enjoy. To read our other interviews in this series with Jane Schultz, Susan Latty, Cindy Karp, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Deborah Kleven Morbeto, Patty Larson, Adrian McGarry,…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 28 November 2021
What is remarkable about your vision, as mobile artists, is that it remains intensely human rooted in common experience, replete with doubt, frustration but also conjoined with belief and certainity. Characteristics demonstrative of our obsession with this new medium. As your journey through this weeks showcase to the centre of the lyrical and artist narrative, your destination alludes to the ultimate climax and is swiftly tempered by the safety of its harbour. This showcase is at the frontier of the world of mobile photography and art. Enjoy! If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art Flickr showcase, please submit it to…
We’re Donating 25% of Net Proceeds to Charity – Strut Safe
Today, until midnight (GMT) Tuesday 30th November 2021 we are donating 25% of all net proceeds from our online gallery to Strut Safe, a charity dedicated to getting women home safely across the UK. It is an organisation founded by Rachel Chung and Alice Jackson following the murder of Sarah Everard in South London in March 2021. Now with over fifty volunteers across the UK, Strut Safe is able to offer free walks home in Edinburgh, as well as a free phone service for the entire UK. There is much work to be done to dismantle systemic violence against women and other marginalised groups. Strut Safe is an initiative to…
