COMPETITIONS
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The Lumen Prize Exhibition – Call For Entries
The Lumen Prize Exhibition, an international prize and global tour for digital fine art, has opened the call for entries for its 2014 prize. The 25 exhibition works, which will be selected by an eminent jury panel of art experts including Bruce Wands, the Founding Chair of BFA Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts, New York City and Doug Dodds, Senior Curator at the V&A, will travel to Cardiff, London, New York City, Athens and Amsterdam. All forms of digitally created art are welcome, and in the past Lumen has exhibited work ranging from photo-montage and manipulation, to iPad drawings, interactive art, web art, digital sculpture, animation…
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Open Call for Photobook Dummies
After two successful editions, the Unseen Dummy Award is back! Heikki Kaski’s ‘Tranquility’ was announced as the winner at Unseen 2013, and his book will be presented with a festive launch at Unseen 2014.  This is fabulous and I know so many of you are working on your own photo books, I hope you submit your individual books to this. Unseen and Lecturis have designed a photobook dummy award to showcase the work of exceptional photographers and designers from around the world and to give them a chance to realise and publish their photobook dummy. The Unseen Dummy Award will give the winning photographer an entry into the international photography industry. An…
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Mobile Masters Second Edition, The PROOF Show will be available May 3rd, 2014
The Mobile Masters Second Edition has already been approved by Apple and will be available in iTunes on Saturday May 3, 2014. It will be free for the first two days, and then revert to its retail price of $4.99/£2.99. We have a teaser video for you to check out in the meantime – here’s the link for that. The Mobile Masters Second Edition will allow you to explore over 50 immersive interactive portfolios with over 300 images from some of the best Mobile Photographers from around the world. Hear them speak about their creative vision and how they created each image in their PROOF Portfolio. Each artist also shares…
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Competition – CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year
Free to enter, the CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition challenges you to change our perceptions of day to day life in the urban environment through their brief: ‘Cities at Work’. The winner will receive a luxury photo-safari trip from a choice of destinations around the globe. The Urban Photographer of the Year will be the person who, in the eyes of the judges, has best captured the brief to portray the life of a town or city at a given time of day. Whilst the photograph does not necessarily have to be taken at that specific time of day, it does need to look as though it was.…
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Pencil by Fiftythree – Winners Announced
We are so pleased to announce the winners of our recent Pencil by Fiftythree stylus competition – if you missed the details of that, please go here. We asked readers to submit their wonderful creations to our Instagram section for this competition – #theappwhisperer_pencilcomp – we then explained that the two winning images that achieve the most likes will receive a Pencil by Fiftythree. We received some really fabulous entries and we send many congratulations to @viigge (Victor Sillanpaa) and @gericentonze (Geri Centonze) for their winning artwork. We will be in contact to obtain further details and the prizes will then be sent to you in due course. Thank you…
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Mobile Masters Competition – Deadline Extented
The deadline has been extented for this fabulous mobile photography competition. You now have until March 9, 2014 to enter. The aim of this second edition of the Mobile Masters interactive eBook is to showcase Mobile Photography as a distinctive and expanding new movement in the history of the art form. It will curate the best work of some of the most passionate early innovators of this underground movement with images that would not have been made just 3 or 4 years ago. We are proud to be a supporter of this competition with the organiser Dan Marcolina who also happens to be one of our Columnists, we are also…
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Competition – Head On ‘Mobile’ Awards 2014 – Open For Entries!
The Head On Awards 2014 are now open for entries and this year they have included a special mobile photography category – entitled ‘Head on Mobile’. You may submit up to 3 works in each category – Portrait, Landscape, Mobile, Multimedia (total of 12 entries). Prizes will be awarded for the best 3 images. The selection of images will be done anonymously based on the power of the photograph rather than the celebrity of the subject or photographer. Images must be produced by a mobile phone camera in colour and/or black & white. You may enhance the image and apply filters. Three images will be awarded prizes and exhibited prints…
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Pencil by Fiftythree Giveaway!
We’re delighted (due to popular demand) 😉 to offer our readers an opportunity to receive one of two Pencils by Fiftythree in this giveaway. Pencil by Fiftythree the developers of the incredibly popular Paper iOS app have created a stylus that is incredibly exciting. It works with Bluetooth technology and connects to your iPad within the Paper app to offer some fabulous features that you wouldn’t ordinarily associate with a stylus/iPad app pairing. These include palm rejection – allowing you to draw whilst your hand rests on the iPad, use of an eraser at the top of the pencil, there’s also an additional an excellent finger blend mode. There are…
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition with Mobile Category – Deadline Approaching
As avid followers of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for more years than we care to remember we were delighted to learn last year that the organisers have added a mobile category for smartphone photographers aged 17 and under, called WILD-I, hopefully this will be rolled out within the adult category too at a later stage, we mentioned it here. Since then, the organisers of the competition reached out to Nettie Edwards and Dan Burkholder to provide inspiration to new smartphone photographers and you can read the interview here. The Competition is now in its 50th year but there are only 12 more days to get your entries…
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LensCulture 2014 Portrait Awards Competition – Call For Entries
‘Photographic portraits are part of everyday life in almost all parts of the world. From fine art to spontaneous selfies, from hyper-perfect photoshopped portraits to seductive (and often fictitious) social media profile pics, to mobile phone snaps altered with digital nostalgia filters. Some are candid, some are staged, some are outrageous and silly, others are just plain beautiful’. LensCulture are on a mission to discover a full range of great 21st century photo portraits. They are open to everything. All points of view. All levels of expertise. All corners of the world. All ideas of portraiture. Every photo is reviewed by EVERY judge, so your work will be seen by…
