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Mobile Photography & Art – M. Cecilia São Thiago Joins TheAppWhisperer as our New Portrait of an Artist Editor

16/09/201916/09/2019 by Joanne Carter

I am delighted to announce M. Cecilia São Thiago has accepted my personal invitation to become our new Columnist and Editor for our Portrait of an Artist Column. You may recall this position was previously held by Ile Mont who did an incredible job with the column for several years. She stepped back a while ago to spend more time on her other important projects. We miss her of course and thank her for all her work and support. Before Ile Mont, Jennifer Bracewell held this position, and also had to step back after several years for the same reason. However, we are very exicted to work closer with M. Cecilia São Thiago and know she will be a huge asset to our growing team here at TheAppWhisperer HQ.

São Thiago is an artist whom I greatly admire, her photographs are exquisite and allegorical in nature. Their vitality is instrumental in pulling the viewer into a very intimate world chronicling the self and beyond. Mysticism and spirituality have long informed São Thiago’s practice and she is refreshingly transparent about her work. She once told me, “my photos carry in each of them everything that I have learned, what I have lived, and what I have suffered”.

We have all brushed up against the sublime feeling of wonder, with sudden realisation that we do not know. Viewing Sao Thiago’s images enable us to recreate that emotion, allowing ourselves a bit of wonder, with the potential to forget what we think we know and to revel in the immediacy of the magic of her work, holding us close, as we unravel.

Influenced by two great Viennese modernists, Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, it’s fascinating to view the concision and extremely intelligent images that São Thiago creates. Each as luxurious, immediate and above all, tender to the next.

We also feature her work within our online print gallery and that can be viewed here.

To be featured within our Portrait of an Artist column, please ensure your images are submitted to our Flickr Group (here) and also tag your images within Instagram with #tawportraitofanartist. We also have a Facebook group and you can access and comment within that (here).

Please join me in welcoming dear M. Cecilia São Thiago to TheAppWhisperer family!

Mobile Photography & Art – Portrait of an Artist – Seeing Through The Eyes Of Deborah McMillion

08/04/201908/04/2019 by Ile Mont

We are delighted to bring to you the sixth of this years series of interviews and the eighteenth of this fascinating series, within our Portrait of an Artist column entitled “Seeing through the eyes”. This is a section that has been created by our wonderful Portrait of an Artist Editor, Ile Mont. Mont has been inspired by the life and works of Carolyn Hall Young, as so many of us have. Young was the main contributor to our Portrait of an Artist Flickr pool and filled it with portraits of so many wonderful people, not only of herself. It is for this reason that Mont wanted to create this section, to enable us to view the artists style through their own eyes. At the end of each interview, Mont will keep Young’s tradition alive, with a portrait of herself, seen through the eyes of the artist. In this case, you will see that at the end of this interview there are portraits of Mont, seen through the eyes of Deborah McMillion, what a gift!

Please continue to post your mobile portraiture to our dedicated Flickr group or use this hashtag on Instagram #tawportraitofanartist, this way, Mont will search through these artists first to interview. (Foreword by Joanne Carter).

All images in this interview ©Deborah McMillion, with the final image a collaboration ©Ile Mont/Deborah McMillion

(To view our other published interviews in this series, please go here).

Mobile Photography & Art – Portrait of an Artist – Seeing Through The Eyes Of Armineh Hovanesian

23/08/201821/08/2018 by Ile Mont

We are delighted to bring to you the sixth in our brand new series of interviews within our Portrait of an Artist column entitled ˜Seeing through the eyes…”. This is a section that has been created by our wonderful Portrait of an Artist Editor, Ile Mont. Mont has been inspired by the life and works of Carolyn Hall Young, as so many of us have. Young was the main contributor to our Portrait of an Artist Flickr pool and filled it with portraits of so many wonderful people, not only of herself. It is for this reason that Mont wanted to create this section, to enable us to view the artists style through their own eyes. At the end of each interview, Mont will keep Young’s tradition alive, with a portrait of herself, seen through the eyes of the artist. In this case, you will see that at the end of this interview there is a portrait of Mont, seen through the eyes of Armineh Hovanesian, what a gift!

Please continue to post your mobile portraiture to our dedicated Flickr group, this way, Mont will search through these artists first to interview. (foreword by Joanne Carter).

All images in this interview ©Armineh Hovanesian, with the final images a collaboration ©Ile Mont/Armineh Hovanesian

(To view our other published interviews in this series, please go here).

Mobile Photography & Art – Portrait of an Artist – Seeing Through The Eyes Of Clint Cline

19/06/201818/06/2018 by Ile Mont

We are delighted to bring to you the sixth in our brand new series of interviews within our Portrait of an Artist column entitled ‘Seeing through the eyes…’. This is a section that has been created by our wonderful Portrait of an Artist Editor, Ile Mont. Mont has been inspired by the life and works of Carolyn Hall Young, as so many of us have. Young was the main contributor to our Portrait of an Artist Flickr pool and filled it with portraits of so many wonderful people, not only of herself. It is for this reason that Mont wanted to create this section, to enable us to view the artists style through their own eyes. At the end of each interview, Mont will keep Young’s tradition alive, with a portrait of herself, seen through the eyes of the artist. In this case, you will see that at the end of this interview there is a portrait of Mont, seen through the eyes of Clint Cline, what a gift!

Please continue to post your mobile portraiture to our dedicated Flickr group, that way, Mont will search through these artists first to interview. (foreword by Joanne Carter).

All images in this interview ©Clint Cline and the final image is a collaboration ©Ile Mont and ©Clint Cline

(To view our other published interviews in this series, please go here).

Mobile Photography & Art – Portrait of an Artist – Seeing Through The Eyes Of Jane Schultz

16/06/201819/04/2018 by Ile Mont

We are delighted to bring to you the fourth in our brand new series of interviews within our Portrait of an Artist column entitled ‘Seeing through the eyes…’. This is a section that has been created by our wonderful Portrait of an Artist Editor, Ile Mont. Mont has been inspired by the life and works of Carolyn Hall Young, as so many of us have. Young was the main contributor to our Portrait of an Artist Flickr pool and filled it with portraits of so many wonderful people, not only of herself. It is for this reason that Mont wanted to create this section, to enable us to view the artists style through their own eyes. At the end of each interview, Mont will keep Young’s tradition alive, with a portrait of herself, seen through the eyes of the artist. In this case, you will see that at the end of this interview there is a portrait of Mont, seen through the eyes of Jane Schultz, what a gift!

Please continue to post your mobile portraiture to our dedicated Flickr group, that way, Mont will search through these artists first to interview. (foreword by Joanne Carter).

All images in this interview ©Jane Schultz and the final image is a collaboration ©Ile Mont/©Jane Schultz

(To view our other published interviews in this series, please go here).

Mobile Photography & Art – Portrait Of An Artist Summer Challenge

03/08/201703/08/2017 by Ile Mont

Welcome to our Fifth Portrait of an Artist Challenge. The theme of our new challenge is “Portraits Under The Rain”. The purpose of this challenge is to evoke very strong and intense feelings through the use of metaphors about the weather. How would you represent what makes Summer special where you live? How would you … Read moreMobile Photography & Art – Portrait Of An Artist Summer Challenge

TrueView Interview – Mobile Photography and Art – “What do you Makes a Good Mobile Photograph?” with Ile Mont from Mexico City

28/02/201728/02/2017 by Joanne Carter

TrueView Interviews, it’s where we ask one singular question, to mobile photographers and artists and it is captured to video. This time we asked accomplished our Portrait of an Artist Editor and Mobile Photographer and Artist, Ile Mont from Mexico City, “What do you think Makes a good Mobile Photograph?”

Many artists are working on their videos right now and each video is as unique and individual as each artist. We are fully conscious and respectful that you are all capturing a part of yourself and sharing it with us and we love it. Thank you.

If you would like to view our previous TrueView Interviews, please go here.

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Mobile Photography Interview ‘A Day in the Life of Ile Mont’ from Mexico City

24/02/201724/02/2017 by Joanne Carter

Welcome to our very exciting interview column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting, newcomers as well as accomplished individuals in the mobile photography and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our 128th interview of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here.

Today we are featuring our very own Portrait of an Artist column editor, Ile Mont, she is an essential part of TheAppWhisperer and we adore her, as you will also, when you view and read this exclusive interview.

We are sure you are going to enjoy this, if you would like to take part in our A Day in the Life interview series, please send an email to myself at Joanne@theappwhisperer.com and I will get back to you.

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Mobile Photography – Portrait of an Artist – “Alter Ego” Summer Challenge Results

08/09/201608/09/2016 by Ile Mont

Welcome to our Portrait of an Artist ‘Alter Ego’ Summer Challenge results. We are delighted to share this with you. Different versions of yourselves is what we asked for and different, amazing versions of yourselves is what we have got.

Thank you very much for all of your submissions to our Portrait Of An Artist “Alter Ego” Summer Challenge! I am delighted and surprised at the sight of so many incredible interpretations of the self.

Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured in this showcase including: Bonny Breddels/Beezzz_, Eliza Badoiu, Lorenka Campos, Meri Walker, Roger Guetta. Patricia Januszkiewicz, Salwa Afef, Liliana Schwitter, Karen Axelrad, Marguerite Khoury, Kathryn Johnson, Giulia Baita, Isabel Afonso, Stef L.P., Yvonne Ladage, Vanessa Vox.

[This Challenge Showcase complements our Portrait of an Artist Column edited by Ile Mont. Every few weeks Mont reviews and curates work that has been submitted to our dedicated Flickr group. In addition, we create a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that have caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition and subject matter.

If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) regarding mobile portraiture and portraiture in general.

Please join our Facebook group for information sharing/discussions (link here)

Please upload your portraiture images to our Flickr Group for showcase submissions (link here)]

Mobile Photography – Portrait of an Artist – Summer Challenge

11/07/201610/07/2016 by Ile Mont

Welcome to our first Portrait of an Artist Challenge. The theme of this challenge is ‘Alter Ego’. The main objective being to develop and of course photograph a different persona. I think of this challenge as ‘a great opportunity to look inwards and make great discoveries about yourself’.

To recap, we would like to ask participants to think of Alter Ego as:

1) The part of someone’s personality that is not usually seen by other people.

2) A second self.

3) The opposite side or counterpart of a personality.

Dates for submission are from 20th July 2016 – 15th August 2016

All submissions must be posted ONLY to our specific Portrait of an Artist Flickr Challenge group – link here.

Please use this hashtag #AlterEgo so we can identify images more easily submitted to this challenge.

We are looking for very artistic images, please see examples below of the calibre we are striving for.