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Mobile Photography and Art—‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Melissa D Johnston from North Carolina, United States
Today, we are publishing our twenty fourth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This one is with award winning mobile photographer and artist Melissa Johnston from North Carolina, United States. This is a memorable interview, a fascinating exposure of Johnston’s inner life. Her narrative speaks of the heartbreaks, near misses and finally the triumphs over adversity. To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian, Vicki Cooper, Gerry Coe, Sarah Bichachi, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Phyllis Shenny, Alisa Smith Williams, Joy Barry, Fleur Schim, Fiona Christian, Peter Wilkin, Ile Mont, Lynette Sheppard, M. Cecilia Sao…
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Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 19 July 2020
There is and there always has been a vast difference between a photographer and someone who is interested in photography. David Hurn (Hurn, D and Jay, B. On Being a Photographer. (3rd ed.) 1997. Pp.43-44) explains that the person who becomes a photographer in not interested in photography as an end result but uses photography to pursue an intense interest in something else. This is a very important point because otherwise, photography only becomes about the hardware and it is so fitting in respect of mobile photography. Although mobile photographers are interested in the latest smartphone, iPad’s, the latest add on lenses, filters etc, I have noticed, that that interest…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Portrait of an Artist – Second Video of Works – with Maria Cecilia de São Thiago @klimtt
We are delighted to publish our second video showcase from our Portrait of an Artist group by our highly qualified editor, Maria Cecilia de São Thiago. She has selected the very best images from our dedicated Flickr Group as well as our Instagram Group and explains, “as the moment calls I have chosen strong images that have in them an indication of the anxiety that I have been feeling and that I think is inherent in everyone these days”. 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…
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Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Linda M Toki from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Today, we are publishing our twenty third interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This one is with Linda Toki, award winning mobile photographer, artist and friend whom I met at Kew Gardens, last year, when we could at least all travel. She’s a wonderful woman with a great sense of humour, enjoy! To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian, Vicki Cooper, Gerry Coe, Sarah Bichachi, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Phyllis Shenny, Alisa Smith Williams, Joy Barry, Fleur Schim, Fiona Christian, Peter Wilkin, Ile Mont, Lynette Sheppard, M. Cecilia Sao Thiago, Rob Pearson-Wright, Catherine…
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Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Jenny Pieters from South Africa
Today, we are publishing our twenty second interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This one is with award winning mobile photographer and artist Jenny Pieters from South Africa. This is a very alluring interview with ravishing art that flagrantly gives pleasure upon the viewing screen. Viewing Pieters images made me cogitate poet Wallace Stevens ‘notes towards a supreme fiction’ poem. It offers three notes toward a “supreme fiction” it must be abstract, it must change, it must give pleasure. Pieters art does all these things, enjoy! To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian,…
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Mobile Photography and Art – ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Cintia Malhotra from New Jersey, United States
Today, we are publishing our twenty first interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile photographer with Cintia Malhotra from New Jersey, United States. Malhotra is a visual artist and educator who has been involved in the arts community since childhood. Despite having visual impairment, she chose to focus on the visual arts. Much of her photography involves a combination of abstraction and personification to create a narrative for the viewer. In addition to this, she explains “I often like to explore social issues and reconnect with the human experience by…
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Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Catherine Caddigan from the United States
Today, we are publishing our twentieth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile photographer with Catherine Caddigan from the United States. Caddigan reminds us that the qualitative experience behind each individual’s existence during lockdown 2020 can be so different. We all have much to learn about quite how unique each one of us is in the lockdown reality in which we find ourselves today. Enjoy! To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian, Vicki Cooper, Gerry Coe, Sarah Bichachi, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Phyllis Shenny, Alisa Smith Williams, Joy…
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Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Rob Pearson-Wright from London, United Kingdom
Today, we are publishing our ninteenth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile photographer with Rob Pearson-Wright from London, UK. Pearson-Wright doesn’t mince his words, he tells us like it is and we’re all the better for it. Enjoy! To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian, Vicki Cooper, Gerry Coe, Sarah Bichachi, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Phyllis Shenny, Alisa Smith Williams, Joy Barry, Fleur Schim, Fiona Christian, Peter Wilkin, Ile Mont, Lynette Sheppard, M. Cecilia Sao Thiago and Susan Latty, please follow this link
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Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with M. Cecilia São Thiago from São Paulo, Brazil
Today, we are publishing our eighteenth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile artist with M. Cecilia São Thiago from São Paulo, Brazil. São Thiago’s 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”. This…
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Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Lynette Sheppard from Hawaii, United States
Today, we are publishing our seventeenth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile artist with Lynette Sheppard from Hawaii, United States. It’s clear when reading this interview that there is no real separation between art and life in Sheppard’s art. It’s socially engaged art containing just the right amount of energy and instinctive brilliance, enjoy! To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian, Vicki Cooper, Gerry Coe, Sarah Bichachi, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Phyllis Shenny, Alisa Smith Williams, Joy Barry, Ile Mont and, Fleur Schim, Fiona Christian, Peter Wilkin,…