Melissa Vincent

Melissa’s interest in mobile art started in April 2011 when she joined Instagram. Interest turned into passion and currently over 230,000 people who have been inspired by her iPhone art are following her on the social network today. All of her work is shot and processed on the iPhone. Not just a photographer, Melissa is also a digital media influencer who works with various brands by assisting to translate their goals on Instagram. She has worked with clients such as Travel and Leisure, Lens Crafters, and Sony. Melissa’s photographs have been featured on National Geographic online and the cover of Time Magazine’s First Annual Wireless Issue. She has been interviewed and featured by The Huffington Post for her surreal, southern pieces. Melissa’s art was hung in the Animazing Gallery in Soho and the Santa Monica Art Studios for the LA Mobile Arts Festival, the world’s largest mobile arts festival to date. Her work was shown at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in California and the Mobile Photo Awards exhibition at the Soho Gallery for Digital Art in NYC. She was recently named one of the ten finalist for the 2012 MPA photographer/artist of the year. She was also awarded the 2012 MPA/ArtHaus photo essay winner for her collection, “The Rooms of William Faulkner”. The series was displayed at ArtHaus in San Francisco for three months in 2013. Melissa loves driving around the country for hours with music and coffee, and usually a sleeping little boy in the backseat, looking for that perfect shot. She always finds interesting photo opportunities while driving on those long, winding Mississippi backroads.