The Best Photography & Art Biographies To Read This Christmas
Last week we published a comprehensive list of The Best Photography and Art books of 2016 and it proved very popular, so much so that some extremely vast social media sites compared it to Time’s – a compliment indeed. Today, we have published The Best Photography & Art Biographies, these we believe you will enjoy too. Sometimes, we like to look at the photographer/artist behind the imagery and this is a great way to switch off and indulge, if you have the opportunity over the Christmas break. I do hope you enjoy this. If there are any others that you have read, that you think should be included, please add…
Mobile Photography – I’m Speaking at The Photography Show about You!
As I mentioned recently, I am very excited to be speaking at The Photography Show this year at the NEC, Birmingham about all of you and your wonderful mobile photography and art. I’ve attached the schedule of my seminars and if anyone is in the UK and would like a discounted ticket then you need to add this code APPWHISPTPS2015 in the checkout here. It will discount your ticket from £13.95 to £10.95 I understand. Please let me know if you have any problems with that, the code is valid until 17 March 2015. There are some great photographers speaking at this event including Mary Ellen Mark, Martin Parr (who…
Memoir ‘It’s What I Do by Lynsey Addario, Part 1’
This is wonderful, MacArthur Genius Grant winner Lynsey Addario’s relentless pursuit of complex truths drive this heart-pounding and inspirational memoir of a photographer’s life. Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young photographer when September 11 changed the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and cover the American invasion. She makes a decision she would often find herself making—not to stay home, not to lead a quiet or predictable life, but to set out across the world, face the chaos of crisis, and make a name for herself. Addario finds in photography a way to travel with a…
Tickle Your Fancy – #31 – Dedicated To All Women
Welcome back to our thirty first post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections, we have dedicated…
