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MIRA Mobile Prize 2019 – 7th Edition – Competition Results

07/06/201906/06/2019 by Joanne Carter

I am delighted to congratulate all the participants and winners in this years MIRA Mobile Prize. I was fortunate once again to be a member of this jury along with, Andrea Bigiarini, Dan Berman, Gina Costa, Giulia Baita and Luis Octavio Costa and I have been so impressed with all the entries, each year the standard gets higher and higher. From five thousand images, to one overall winning image, one overall landscape winner and the best rated Portuguese winner. With a further fifty shortlisted images in addition to another 150 images, all will take part in an exhibition and book of this years MIRA prize.

The exhibition will open on Saturday 15 June 2019, 1600 at MIRA FORUM, Porto, Portugal.

On behalf of all our community of mobile photographers and artists, I would like to thank Manuela Matos Monteiro for creating this Exhibition for us all to enjoy and participate in! You can find more details about it here.

Many congratulations to all, including Tim Bingham, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Alexandra Cordeiro, Acurcio Moniz, Alisa Eykills, Augusto Lemos, Dorota Kowalczyk, Mariko Klug, Mateusz Gorny, Adria Ellis, Basak Aytek, Cedric Blanchon, Erik Lieber, Lisa Mitchell, Patricia H Clarke, Anthony Ginns, Emilos Carols, Heather McAlister, Himanshu Roy, Paul Suciu, Renee Zanone, Will Delaney, Davide Crispino, Enzo Crispino, Jose Paulo Andrade, Katy Prikhodko, Maria Odete Correla, Martos Santos, Vera Carlotto, Paulo Pimenta, Virgo Aytekin, Christine Mignon, Glenn Homann, Manuela Basaldella, Marian Rubin, Massimilano Balo, Mateusz Jaszak, Piotr Benklewski, Claudine Watanabe, Gianluca Ricoveri, Heather McAlister, Helen Breznik, Isobel Afonso, Katlin Kiss, Peter Wilkin and Vladka Kacvarova.

Photography Competition – WeatherPro sponsors “Weather Photographer of the Year 2019”

04/06/2019 by Joanne Carter

WeatherPro, the all-new weather app and powerful weather platform, is delighted to sponsor “Weather Photographer of the Year 2019”. In the 4th edition of the global photography competition, the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) encourages talented photographers of all ages to submit their most beautiful weather images to be judged on Photocrowd.com.

Apple Shot on iPhone Challenge – The 2019 Winners – Announced

26/02/2019 by Joanne Carter

iPhone photographers around the world shared their best photos for Apple’s Shot on iPhone Challenge, capturing remarkable moments with the world’s most popular camera. The 10 selected winners will be featured on billboards in select cities, in Apple retail stores and online. The winning shots came from a range of models, from iPhone XS Max to iPhone 7, showcasing the quality of cameras across the line.

The top 10 winners came from countries including Singapore, Germany, Belarus, Israel and the US, highlighting the global community of iPhone photographers that participated. These photos capture colourful city scenery, curious animals, creative reflections, the beauty of the ordinary and more.

The international panel of judges includes Pete Souza, Austin Mann, Annet de Graaf, Luísa Dörr, Chen Man, Phil Schiller, Kaiann Drance, Brooks Kraft, Sebastien Marineau-Mes, Jon McCormack and Arem Duplessis — each one also writes up a little about why they selected the shot.

Many congratulations to all the winners including: Alex Jiang, Robert Glaser, LieAdi Darmawan, Bernard Antolin, Andrew Griswold, Elizabeth Scarrott, Dina Alfasi, Nikita Yarosh, Darren Soh, Blake Marvin and Alex Jiang.

Mobile Movies – Moment Invitational Film Festival – $100k Up for Grabs

15/02/201915/02/2019 by Joanne Carter

The Moment Invitational is back for Season 4. This is their largest season yet with $100K in cash and gear for filmmakers, fifteen finalists flown to NYC for the premiere, ten amazing sponsors, five categories, and one massive contest to determine the people’s choice. Made by the filmmakers at Moment, this is the festival they’ve always wanted to enter.

Make a film. Get invited. Fund your next project.

There’s 30 days left to submit your film, go here to do so!

Sony World Photography Awards reveal stunning shortlist for 2019 Open and Youth competitions

05/02/2019 by Joanne Carter

The World Photography Organisation today reveals the shortlisted photographers for the Open and Youth competitions of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards, recognising the world’s best single images from 2018. As one of the world’s largest and most prestigious global photography competitions, the Awards annually celebrate and promote the best contemporary photography from the past year across a wide variety of photographic genres.

Over 326,000 entries were submitted across the four competitions of the 2019 Awards, the highest ever number to date. The judges were impressed by the high standard of submissions and noted a wide range of creative approaches, influences and techniques throughout the shortlists.

Huge shout out to Sean Hayes one of the thirteen British shortlisted photographers (Sean is also an exclusive member of our online gallery, see his collection here).

MIRA Mobile Photography Black and White Street Photography Competition – Deadline Extended

28/01/2019 by Joanne Carter

The deadline has been extended for the MIRA Mobile Photography black and white street photography competition until 1 February 2019. This is a free to enter competition.

Click here to enter and find out more

Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year – Deadline Approaching – Mobile Photography Category

26/01/201925/01/2019 by Joanne Carter

The Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition is one of my annual highlights and this year, I am on the advisory panel of judges as well as being a media partner. There are many categories to enter but of course, hands down, our favourite is the Mobile Photography section.

It costs £6 to enter, per image and £2 of that will go to Action Against Hunger (registered charity). There’s £5,000 (US $6,500) prize money waiting for the winner and in addition to that top prize you will be invited to a glittering VIP Awards evening at the world renowned Mall Galleries, London, SW1. You will be provided with two nights bed and breakfast at the InterContinental London Park Lane, Hotel and much more…

There’s just 16 days left to get your entries in. Go here to enter

Apple Agrees to Compensate Winners of ‘Shot on iPhone Competition’

25/01/2019 by Joanne Carter

Many of the Mobile Photographers within TheAppWhisperer community have not only submitted their images to Apple’s ‘Shot on iPhone Competition’ but have also won and their photographs have graced billboards around the world in earlier years. Apple has faced criticism though for not compensating winners, suggesting perhaps that they felt exposure should be enough. However, Apple have now backtracked and will compensate winners with licensing fees. A direct quote from Apple reads:

“Apple believes strongly that artists should be compensated for their work. Photographers who shoot the final 10 winning photos will receive a licensing fee for use of such photos on billboards and other Apple marketing channels”.

The contest is open now until February 7 2019 – so hurry to enter if you haven’t yet. To enter, tag your image on Twitter and/or Instagram with #ShotoniPhone

Judges this year include Peter Souza – Obama White House Photographer, Austin Mann – one of our contributors, Luisa Door, Annet de Graaf, Chen Man, Phil Schiller, Kaiann Drance, Broooks Kraft, Sebastien Marineau-Mes, Arem Duplessis and Jon McCormack – the leader of Apple’s camera team.

MIRA Mobile Prize Black & White 2019 Competition Now Open For Entries

14/01/2019 by Joanne Carter

We are delighted to announce the MIRA Mobile Prize Black & White Competition is now open for entries. This is a free to enter competition with three images per photographer being permitted. The Jury consists of four globally awarded and/or recognised with merit for their photography and specifially their mobile photography, artists. These include Brendan O Se, Armineh Hovanesian, Jacinto Lara and Claudia Conteras.

The winner of this competition will enjoy a week in Porto, Portugal (from any European country) with accomodation.

The deadline for this competition is 26 January 2019.

To enter and find out more, go here.

12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award – Results Announced

24/10/201823/10/2018 by Joanne Carter

The Photography Gala Awards, with the sponsorship of the Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography invited women photographers worldwide to submit images to the Twelfth Edition of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award.

This Award is open to women photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements are welcomed.

In this 12th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, a total of 760 photographers from 72 countries submitted 5,800 photographs for consideration of the jurors Julia Fullerton-Batten, Andrea Star-Reese and Laura Pannack. Natalie Lennard was selected as overall winner of the Award in the Professional Section, and Margarita Mevromichalis was selected as the overall winner of the Non Professional Section. According to the rules of this edition of the Award, both Natalie and Margarita will have a solo exhibition in Barcelona next April 2019.

We send our congratulations to all winners and especially to the many awarded mobile photographers, these include: Christine Sobczak, Juta Jazz, Armineh Hovanesian, Gina Costa, Jana Curcio, Lisa Mitchell, Kate Zari Roberts, Catherine Schell Caddigan and Manuela Matos Monteiro.