COMPETITIONS
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Photo Competition – Global Photographer of the Year
Global Photography Awards aims to promote the beauty of the photograph. It does not matter if the photo was shot in the past or shot in the present, framed by a professional or an amateur. The competition is open to any photographer age 18 and over. You should enter each image into the best suited category. Images cannot be placed into multiple categories. The photographer’s name is never displayed during judging so each photo is scored on its own merit. Submissions for this competition open 1st July 2015 and there’s a $150,000 grand prize. There is a charge of $35 per image entered. To find out more, please go here.
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Mobile Street Photography – StreetWise – Challenge 1 – with Fabulous Prizes!
Welcome to our first challenge to our brand new mobile street photography group, StreetWise. Unlike our women only mobile photography StreetsAhead group, StreetWise is an open group for all mobile street photographers, whatever their gender. StreetWise is edited by Sheldon Serkin, Serkin has been a mobile street photographer in New York City since 2010. In 2014, he was named the Grand Prize winner and “Mobile Photographer of the Year” in the Mobile Photo Awards, placing first in the category of Street Photography, read more about Serkin (here). For this Challenge we are delighted to be working closer with Thomas Hurst, Founder of COVR Photo. Hurst has created an incredible iPhone…
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Current Photography Competitions and Grants – May 2015
There are a huge number of photography competitions and grants currently vying for your images. We have listed the details and deadlines below, with links, to help make it easier for you to enter and find them all. Hope this helps! If you know of anymore competitions, please let me know and I will add them to this list.
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iPhotographer Magazine & Competition – Coming Soon!
The Preview Issue of iPhotographer Magazine has been submitted to the Apple Newstand and is expected to be approved in the next few days. This magazine edited by Knox Bronson and will feature many well known mobile photographers and artists. There’s also a contest running in this new issue until June 14, 2015. The theme is ‘water’ – so have a think about that. There is a charge to enter this competition but also a $500 top prize among others. We have a discount code to slightly bring down the cost of entering for our readers. Instead of paying $6, the code will reduce it to $5. Enter this code:…
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FIPA Mobile Photography Most Wanted Visionaries Exhibition – 2015
Huge congratulations to the twenty artists whose works have been selected for the incredible honour to be exhibited at the Tethys Fine Art Gallery, Florence, Italy. This exhibition is one part of the Summer 2015 series of mobile photography and art exhibitions in association with the NEM the Florence International Photography Awards (FIPA), organised by Andrea Bigiarini (see here). Many congratulations to the following artists for their incredible talent and beautiful works: Angie Johnson, Robin Robertis, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Brett Chenoweth, Vivi Hanson, Captain Flam, Janine Graf, Eddie X, AlexVisage, Jiri Dvorak, Karen Divine, Lorenka Campos, Michelle Robinson, Rob Pearson-Wright, Dieter Gaebel, Kim Martino, Patricia Larson, Erika Brothers, Benamon Tame…
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The Exposure Award Offering Photographers $75K In Awards & Prizes
Exposure is a photography award and a global celebration of the image, premiering July 13th 2015, at The Louvre Museum in Paris with submissions from 191 different nations over the past five years; the photography submitted to Exposure has beeen seen by over 3 million viewers. Click here to find out more
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Reminder: Call for entries – Renaissance Photography Prize 2015
WIth just weeks to go, now is the time to register for Renaissance Photography Prize 2015. The prize is looking to discover talent and celebrate the best in photography, giving image makers access to new opportunities and world-wide audience for their work. It is open to anyone worldwide, and closes 12 June 23:59 GMT+1, London, UK time. A prestigious judging panel, exhibition in London and over £6000/$9000 worth in prizes. All profit from entry fees is donated to the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care, to help younger women suffering from breast cancer. To enter, please go here.
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Mobile Photography/Art Competition – FIPA/TheAppWhisperer Special Award – ‘Gates of Paradise’ – How To Enter
I’m very excited about this wonderful competition, the NEM Florence International Photography Awards (FIPA), of which TheAppWhisperer has been very generously given a special section. The theme is ‘Gates of Paradise’ I selected this theme to honour the gilded bronze doors of Florence’s Baptistery of San Giovanni and as inspiration for all mobile artists to create a magnificent work of art; not depicting the literal ‘Gates of Paradise’ but to portray, what the ‘Gates of Paradise’ represent to you. Think widely a place of contentment, a garden, being with a loved one, a tranquil location to retreat in times of stress. One question I’ve been asked quite a lot recently…
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Grand Prize Winners Announced at 2015 Sony World Photography awards,
The Honorary Jury of the world’s largest photography competition today names American photographer John Moore as the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards’ L’Iris d’Or/ Professional Photographer of the Year, amongst other awardees. Chosen from the winners of the awards’ thirteen professional categories, the winning work “Ebola Crisis Overwhelms Liberian Capital” is a hard-hitting series of images that cut to the heart of this human tragedy. Moore, a Senior Staff Photographer and Special Correspondent for Getty Images, and the winning photographs have been universally credited for the early exposure of the scale of the Ebola epidemic in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia and the epicentre of the deadly disease. He collects…
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Simon Norfolk – Wins at 2015 Sony World Photography Awards for Landscape
The Honorary Jury of the world’s largest photography competition today names Simon Norfolk as the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards’ Landscape Photographer of the Year. “Norfolk is an incredible photographer and my husband Kevin, has previously interviewed him and featured his work in The Times”. Norfolk, a landscape photographer who lives and works in Brighton and is represented by INSTITUTE, was selected from over 87,000 entries to the Professional competition for a series called “When I Am Laid In Earth”. In the series the photographer maps with a pyrograph the melting away of the Lewis Glacier on Mt. Kenya. Norfolk had previously been awarded 1st place in the Professional People…