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…
Mobile Art Auction to Help Meri Walker Rebuild Her Life After Home Razed in Oregon, United States
I am delighted to host the First Every Mobile Art Auction and on behalf of Award Winning Mobile Artist, Meri Walker who this week lost her entire home and content to fires in Oregon, United States. Currently there is a fabulous GoFundMe page organised by members of the mobile photography community which hopes to achieve $50,000. Following an email from Clint Cline, also a Multi Award Winning Mobile Artist, we have initiated his idea to realise the First Ever Mobile Art auction with the proceeds (after costs) going to Meri Walker’s fund. Clint Cline is a multi award winning mobile artist from Florida, United States. Cline employs a technique within his…
Update on Award Winning Mobile Photographer – iPhoneArtGirl – Meri Walker – Fire Razes Home in Oregon, United States
Thank you to all who have offered a donation to Award Winning Mobile Photographer – @iPhoneArtGirl – Meri Walker’s fund to enable her to start rebuilding her life after her entire home was razed to the ground in Oregon a few days ago. The fund is now at $13,731 (at the time of writing). We are hoping to raise $50,000, please contribute if you can. I have included some photographs of her home as it now looks and surrounding neighbourhood. Please go here to make a donation.
Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 6 September 2020
Many photographers draw on literary influences on which to base their images. Hannah Starkey used Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1832 poem The Lady of Shalott as a reference point for a body of work exhibited at Maureen Paley Gallery in 2010. In the poem, The Lady of Shalott is subject to a curse. She is only able to view the real world refectled through a mirror. Temptation ensues and she sneaks a glimpse at a knight’s shining sword, looks out of the window and dies. This is a very brief gist of the poem but the idea is that if you only view the world through shadows of reality through reflections…
Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 9 August 2020
The chronological picture or photo essay is something that is often repeated in contemporary photography and can be very compelling. Linear picture narratives guide us from a beginning point to an end point which is in line with classical ways of forming narrative. The sequencing of the images is important in ordering the unfolding narrative; we’re guided by the photographers intentions. However, there’s an important difference between the picture essay (or story) and a piece of classical prose. A writer will give you the information they want to tell you in a precise order that you, as a reader, aren’t in control of (unless you read the back pages first).…
TrueView Video ‘How Has Covid-19 Affected Your Mobile Art? with Fleur Schim from California, United States
I am so proud to publish our ninth new TrueView Video today with highly talented and award winning mobile artist Fleur Schim from California. You may recall, our TrueView Video‘s are a unique glimpse into the life and times of mobile artists within our community. With each TrueView Video we pose one singular question and we ask the artist to record their answer to video. This time our question to Fleur Schim was “how has Covid-19 affected your mobile art?”. I really enjoyed listening to Fleur Schim’s dialogue this morning within this TrueView interview. Schim’s understanding of our current phenomenon with this pandemic is refreshingly optimistic and energetic but in a serene way. It…
TrueView Video ‘How Has Covid-19 Affected Your Mobile Art? with Lynette Sheppard from Hawaii, United States
I am so proud to publish our eighth new TrueView Video today with highly talented and award winning mobile artist Lynette Sheppard from Hawaii, United States. You may recall, our TrueView Video‘s are a unique glimpse into the life and times of mobile artists within our community. With each TrueView Video we pose one singular question and we ask the artist to record their answer to video. This time our question to Lynette Sheppard was “how has Covid-19 affected your mobile art?”. Sheppards’s answer to this thought provking question offers intriuging juxtapositions of art and the present, events at the core of modernism. This is a compelling and honest account, questioning how unconditionally time…
TrueView Video ‘How Has Covid-19 Affected Your Mobile Art? with Meri Walker (@iPhoneartgirl) from Oregon, United States
I am so proud to publish our seventh new TrueView Video today with highly talented and award winning mobile artist, Meri Walker, also known on Instagram as @iphoneartgirl from Oregon, United States. You may recall, our TrueView Video‘s are a unique glimpse into the life and times of mobile artists within our community. With each TrueView Video we pose one singular question and we ask the artist to record their answer to video. This time our question to Meri Walker was “how has Covid-19 affected your mobile art?”. Walker’s answer to this thought provking question goes beyond the pandemic in many ways. In Walker’s account, her TrueView interview serves as a critical hallmark of…
The Impossible Exhibition – Covid Sessions – A Project by Visionary Andrea Bigiarini Part 2
I am delighted to publish Part 2 of The Impossible Exhibition – Covid Sessions – A Project by Andrea Bigiarini. This is a unique venture whereby mobile artists, throughout the world, who could leave home, were asked to film their streets. Or if they were confined, they filmed from their properties. It makes fascinating viewing as Bigiarini has created a complete video with featured work by the following artists: Semra Duyulmus, Camilla Castiglioni, Jane Schultz, Lorenka Campos, Paolo Sbardella, Mark Daniels, Melissa D.Johnston, Marian Seid Rubin, Peter Wilkin, Eric Raddatz, Nancy McClure, Meri Walker, Sylvie Prevot, Geri Centonze, Alon Goldsmith, Donna Donato, Cara Gallardo Weill, Rob Pearson-Wright, Kim Martino-Diaz, Pati…
Mobile Photography and Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 17 May 2020
Art therapy has the power to relieve trauma and I believe it should be used widely to help survivors rebuild their lives. There seems to be a general consensus that more should be done to end slavery and trafficking but still it is an area of criminal activity that appears to be on the rise, even as we now find ourselves in lockdown. Art therapy itself covers various forms, drawing, photography, painting, but it’s still not widely implemented in a role of healing for victims. This is a disparity that some aid organisations are not embracing, I wonder if it is because some donors are unprepared to invest in this,…
