Huawei Partners with UK Photographer and Designer Mike Kus
To help celebrate the positive power of creativity, Huawei has partnered with UK photographer and designer Mike Kus to launch a photography masterclass, sharing Mike’s top tops on how to capture the best images – you can watch the full masterclass below.
With the chance to win $10,000, Next image 2020 champions powerful images and films that have the ability to inspire and uplift the world, as selected by a collection of the industry’s leading photography and video experts.
Please find more information below, as well as some imagery captured already by some of the UKs creative talent available to download HERE.
Deadline for entries: July 31, 2020
Competition judging period: August 2020
Results Revealed: September 2020
The UK is full of creative talent as showcased by the recent entries to the HUAWEI NEXT-IMAGE 2020 photography competition. The world’s biggest smartphone photography competition celebrates the positive power of creativity and is open for entries until 31st July this year.
To inspire those hoping to take home the $10,000 top prize, or be in with a chance of getting their hands on the latest Huawei P40 Pro smartphone, Huawei has teamed up with UK photographer Mike Kus, who has created a masterclass video offering his personal tips on capturing the best image for each competition category. Amateur photographers can visit Huawei’s official YouTube channel to watch the video and put his tips into practice to boost their shot at taking home one of the coveted prizes.
NEXT-IMAGE 2020 is shining a light on photography captured on smartphones, and the global competition offers photography fans six different categories to enter. These range from capturing hidden gems, night-time photography and real-life stories to inspiring portraits, a photo series that tells a personal story and producing a video that expresses your creativity.
From today, Huawei will also be partnering with LALALAB, Europe’s premier photo printing app, to offer participants the opportunity to bring the special moments they have captured to life by printing them at a 20% discounted price using the LALALAB app, available in the Huawei AppGallery.
“It’s time for new creators across Britain to use their creative skills to capture and share their most joyful, inspiring images from wherever they are. Huawei has always been at the forefront of innovation when it comes to smartphone photography and our devices feature unparalleled camera technology. We have been really impressed with the quality and the creativity of the images that have been submitted so far, and would like to encourage all Huawei users across the country to take part.” commented Anson Zhang, CEO of Huawei UK Consumer BG.
Helene Queriault from LALALAB. added “It’s so easy nowadays to use our powerful smartphones to bring our ideas to life with beautiful images, whether you’re an amateur or professional photographer. Whether it’s images taken at home or elsewhere, it’s about immortalizing special moments, and ultimately bringing them to life again by printing them. If those pictures raise smiles or touch hearts, our mission is accomplished.”
Open to Huawei owners, HUAWEI NEXT-IMAGE 2020 winning images will be selected by some of the world’s leading photography experts. The judges include renowned photographers such as multi award-winning Steve McCurry from America, Elizaveta Porodina from Russia (fashion), Canadian Reuben Krabbe (extreme sports) and Swedish Karolina Henke.
You can enter the competition through the official website, HUAWEI community, or by posting to Instagram with hashtags #HuaweiNextImage and #CapturedOnHuawei. For more information on NEXT-IMAGE 2020, please visit the official competition website (https://gallery.consumer.HUAWEI.com).
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)
