Mobile Photography Awards – Latest Update
As our readers will be aware, we are Media Partners to the Mobile Photography Awards 2012 so, it gives us great pleasure to pass on this latest Press Release. We’re recording an interview with Daniel Berman, founder of the MPA shortly, look out for that next week.
“The Mobile Photography Awards were designed to celebrate and focus attention on the explosive growth of mobile phone photography and art,” says Berman. “The majority of pictures these days are taken on smartphones and there are many talented people in the world who are dedicating their time to this craft, creating amazing art. We want to showcase this to the fine art world and get noticed by even more collectors.”
2011 Winner: Double Dutch Nuns by Jose Chavarry
Based on the feedback and traction from the MPA’s inaugural awards in 2011, the market appears to be hungry for fresh art. Eight of the winners from last years curated exhibit sold their work for $1300 each, setting the record for fine art prices paid for limited edition mobile photography prints.
To up the ante this year, a Grand Prize of $3,000 will be awarded to the MPA Photographer of the Year, making the MPA award the biggest of its kind in the genre. Juried by the top photographers in the field, the winning 20 entries, runners-up and founder’s choices, will be part of an international gallery and exhibit tour. The 2013 tour will begin at the SOHO Gallery for Digital Art in New York City from February 22 to March 8.
“This is a passion project for me,” says Bernman. “I strive to promote mobile photography artists who really take their craft seriously. If you consider yourself an artist and want to build relationships with galleries and collectors, this is the place for you.”
The second annual awards are now open for submissions through December 15, 2012. Entry fees are $20 for 3, $30 for 5, $50 for 9 or $100 for 20.
Entries will be judged on originality, creativity and adherence to the contest theme. The 20 categories for the competition include such traditional photographic genres as Landscapes, Self- Portraits, and Street Photography as well as uniquely modern areas like Visual FX and Digital Painting. New showcase categories this year are the JUXT Photo Journalism Award for mobile photography and the ArtHaus Photo Essay – a sub-component to the MPA with it’s own award and exhibit at ArtHaus in San Francisco for one month in early 2013.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
