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Mobile Photography / Art Competition – MIRA Mobile Prize – Deadline Postponed

The organisers of the Mira Mobile Prize have extended the deadline for this fabulous competition to 5 March, 2016. This years theme is ‘Connections’, defined for this competition as ‘all kinds of connections: cultural, visual, emotional, symbolic’. This free to enter competition allows you to submit up to three images related to this theme. All images must have been taken and edited with a mobile device.

The winning images will be displayed within an Exhibition in Porto, Portugal on 30th April 2016 until 11th June 2016.

The Grand Prize winner will receive return paid for flights from a European capital to Porto. Full board for five nights and more.

You can find out more here.

Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.