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LensCulture – Sixth Annual Global Call For Photography – Call For Entries
The LensCulture Exposure Awards 2014 is an international competition that aims to discover and showcase the best photographers from all over the world. Share your images with the world for a chance at over $10,000 in awards, as well as a world-class exhibition in London and massive exposure to our global audience of over 900,000. Our international jury of notable industry professionals will select six top winners in two categories and 25 finalists. These are our largest international awards of the year and YOU are invited to submit your best photographs and get worldwide recognition. Deadline for entries – Sunday, December 21, 2014 To find out more and enter go…
2015 Sony World Photography Awards – Call for Entries
Open to photographers of all ages and skill levels, the Awards have welcomed over 700,000 entries from more than 230 countries since their launch in 2007. The Sony World Photography Awards is widely recognised as the leading global photographic awards programme in existence today. Launched in 2008, the awards are dedicated to supporting and cultivating photographic culture. Through a range of annual competitions, we hope to discover new talent in the world of photography and moving image. Whether you are just starting out or a fully-fledged professional you can enter whichever competition you believe suit your level and experience. The annual awards gala and ceremony takes place in London, welcoming an international attendance…
‘Tiny Collective in Paris Show’ at the Mobile Camera Club
For the first time, the international collective of photographers “Tiny Collective” will exhibit in Paris, at the Mobile Camera Club gallery. Created in 2012, this group is composed of 12 street-photographers coming from all parts of the world, who elected their smartphones as their favorite tool to express their creativity. It comes as no wonder if these gifted urban photographers are social media stars (they have a combined audience of more than 500,000 followers): they are indeed the true heirs of the XXth century photography artists who passionately documented the human condition, adding to it a touch of modernity, aesthetics and personal vision. Always on the hip, they share the…
Winners Announced For Mobile Art > L’arte è Mobile – Festival FuturoPresente 2014
I am so delighted to announce the winners of the Mobile Art > L’arte è Mobile – Festival FuturoPresente 2014 awards hosted by Giancarlo Beltrame. The international jury, comprised of myself Founder and Editorial Director of TheAppWhisperer as well as Columnist for Vogue and Contributing Editor to LensCulture as well as Gianluigi Colin, Art Director of the most popular Italian daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera, Gina Costa, Professor of 20th Century art and photography and curator the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Nicki Fitz-Gerald, editor of iPhoneography Central, and Andrea Bigiarini, writer, digital artist and founder of NEM – New Era Museum. The first prize goes to…
2014 World Press Photo Exhibition – 7 November – 26 November 2014, Royal Festival Hall, London
The World Press Photo Exhibition returns to Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 7 November 2014. World Press Photo is the premier annual international competition in press photography, bringing together award-winning photographs from around the world, which capture the most powerful, moving and sometimes disturbing images of the year. This year 98,671 images were submitted to the contest by 5,754 photographers, representing 132 different nationalities. Exhibited without censorship in about 100 cities, in 45 countries all over the world. The World Press Photo Exhibition offers an international showcase for all of the competition’s prize-winning entries, and is considered by many to set a standard in the field of photojournalism. The…
Competition – The Terry O’Neill Photography Award 2014 – With Mobile Category
The Terry O’Neill Award is one of the world’s most respected and leading photography prizes. It attracts thousands of entries every year from around the globe. The distinguished judges offer a unique opportunity to showcase your talent to titans of the industry, many of whom operate in the commercial world and commission work. I’ve detailed some information below but to find out more, go here. PRIZES £6500 in cash prizes Winners work featured in The Sunday Times Magazine Showcased in Terry O’Neill exhibitions in the UK and overseas ENTRIES 1 – 5 images: £12.50 (£6 Students) 6 – 10 images: £25.00 (£12 Students) CLOSING DATE 30 November 2014 CRITERIA All…
‘Building Mobile Bridges With Instagram’ – Michael Christopher Brown
We’re are delighted to publish our second article to our brand new section to TheAppWhisperer.com today, entitled, ‘Building Mobile Bridges with Instagram‘. Within this section we profile specific mobile photographers that have caught our eye, demonstrating their talent via their Instagram feed. We view so many talented feeds everyday and we wanted to make sure we highlighted these photographers to help them raise their profiles. Previously we looked at street photographer Hannibal Renberg, if you missed that, please go here. Today, we are taking a look at Michael Christopher Brown. Michael was raised in the Skagit Valley, a farming community in Washington State. Often using a camera phone as a primary…
Advertising Assignments and Instagram Success
A very interesting article in PDN last week talks about advertising assignments and success for mobile photographers. They interview Lauren Randolph a very successful photographer, more commonly known by her Instagram title of Lauren Lemon and discuss the continued rise of her career. Only five years out from college, she has attracted more than 230,000 Instagram followers. It’s a great read, go here to read more.
Mobile Camera Club, Paris – Presents New Mobile Photography Exhibition
Many thanks to Lynette Jackson, who we just interviewed in our latest Day in the Life Interview series, see here, for letting us know about this new exhibition by the Mobile Camera Club in Paris opening next week. “One century after the futurist, constructivist and vortices’ movements, six photographers coming from different countries and backgrounds, equipped with their smartphones, question the reality and modernity of their urban environment. Sharing the same fascination as their predecessors for the graphic and geometric imagination that shaped our megalopolises, they use framing, perspective, photomontage or typography to show a world between visible and invisible, real and virtual. These “image builders” intend to show us…
Rumour – iPad Air 2 Being Announced 16 October 2014…
The rumour mill is in full swing as it tends to be around this time of the year regarding Apple products. The latest rumour circulating is that Apple will announce the new iPad Air 2 at a Press Conference on 16 October 2014, it’s possible that this is not the correct date and it could be October 21, 2014 instead. That means invitations to the event should go out this week, so we’ll hear more for sure later on. If the new iPad Air is announced in October then the chances are the availability will be in November. What can we expect inside this new device? Well rumours include an…






















