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Mobile Photography Competiton – Entries Welcome

There’s a new photo competition doing the rounds, set up by Mobile Photo Awards (MPA), which inturn was founded by Daniel Berman, himself a renowned iPhoneographer.

They’ve set a fee for images entered, this is quite common these days. In this instance it’s $20 for three images or $30 for five images submitted. There are fifteen categories to choose from and these include Architecture & Design to Appstracts & Graphic Art and move to Wildlife and Pets.

The contest runs up to November 30, 2011 – you can find out more here.

The prizes look pretty good, check them out below…

Grand Prize

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The overall winner will receive a $500 Apple Store Gift Card and additional prizes include $50 iTunes gift cards, pro accounts with 500PX.com, free prints, photo albums from Keepsy, MacPhun Desktop Photo Software.

25 winners will be featured on a gallery tour exhibit with one month enlargements at Arthaus in SF & Miami’s Artlink Gallery.

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Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: joanne@theappwhisperer.com