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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 27 November 2022
Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase Instead of Black Friday ‘offers’, which may tempt you to overspend, we are giving you all an unconditional gift, with our huge thanks. We are giving away, 20 entries for each photographer who submits their images to the World Photography Organisation, Sony World Photography Awards Open competition. The Open competition is where all mobile photographs should be submitted. It is normally free to enter 3 images per photographer but we are giving each of you, however many thousands of you there are, 20 additional free entries. The overall winner of this category will receive $5,000 in cash, plus Sony digital imaging equipment, flights and accommodation to the awards ceremony…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 20 November 2022
Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase Thank you to each of the talented artists for submitting your works to our showcase this week. If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art Flickr showcase, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. Alternatively if you’re an Instagram user just tag your images with #theappwhisperer and well pick you up. Many congratulations to all of our featured artists this week, including: @poppybay, @eliza.tsitsimeaua, @realityfragments, @catchthemoment_nl, @amandathomsonscotland, @nostalgic_august, @sandarroch, @evabartospainterly, @be23mo, @vanessa_vox, @filizakart, @sodium_light22, @vintage_inspired_photography @bigboystair, @dijkje15, @iphotami, @iphoneartgirl, @candies.photos, @pause.and.breathe, @lizanderson48, @pa.hamel, @_klimtt, @oola cristina, @lorenka campos, @Deborah McMillion, @Ale Di Gangi, @Gianluca Ricoveri, @Vladimir Dimitroff, @Jane Schultz, @VINCENT MOYASHI/
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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…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 5 December 2021
The rawness of this weeks Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase, is so disarming, in a sense, it’s a rollicking hallucinatory fantasy, as sobering as the present cold air. It’s about love, you have it and you want to share it. It’s richness and exultant tone unlike anything you may have seen before, depicting the entire revelation of mobile photography and art, it makes you hopeful, it makes you dream. This is an elegant and uplifting journey through the labyrinth of our art lust. 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 our…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 7 November 2021
I recently completed an essay addressing how the visual work of Rosy Martin, informed by psychotherapeutic theory, links personal memory to the construction of self. I will publish it soon but it concludes “notable psychotherapist, Sigmund Freud had two photographs on his desk, one of a patient looking well, hopeful and healthy at the start of therapy and another at the end of their therapy looking dejected, depressed and beaten by life. Freud encouraged his patients to bring him their dreams, one cannot help but ponder, knowing what we now know of phototherapy, whether bringing their photographs would have made this therapy more accessible“. Having always walked to my own…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 24 October 2021
This weeks Mobile Photography and Art Flickr Group Showcase is an absolute triumph of atmosphere, with a meditation on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit. it has an almost hallucinatory quality as it unfolds in a powerfully poetic distillation. For the few minutes that its plays, we are privileged to live in it. Thank you to all artists for submitting your works. If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art Flickr Group, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art…
