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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…
Mobile Photo Now: A Major Worldwide Mobile Photography Project & Exhibition
I am very pleased to hear about this photography Project and Exhibition. Kevin Kuster who is also a good friend and a Columnist for us sent me the following information. You can read more about Kevin here, in addition. ‘Columbus Museum of Art and the #jj community (Instagram), the world’s largest community of photographers, launch the largest museum mobile photography exhibition to date. Mobile Photo Now (February 6, 2015 – March 22, 2015) will highlight the emerging art form of mobile photography, and the power of social media and smart phones as a means of creative expression. In the fall of 2012, Columbus Museum of Art became the first museum…
#RePicture Competition Open For Entries
Getty Images and iStock have teamed up to create a new international photography competition, #RePicture. The competition aims to challenge how we photograph the world and find ways to subvert stereotypical imagery across the globe. Originally launched at this year’s Cannes Lions festival in France, #RePicture is inspired by the success of Getty Images’ recent partnership with Lean In, an organisation that champions creative opportunities for women. Open to amateur and semi-professional photographers and creatives worldwide, the competition offers prizes from Canon, and the chance to get on board as a Getty Images contributor. “We feel passionately that images have the power to change the way people view the world.” says Andy Saunders, senior…
‘Building Mobile Bridges with Instagram’ – Hannibal Renberg – Instagram Street Photographer
We’re opening a new section to TheAppWhisperer.com today, entitled, ‘Building Mobile Bridges with Instagram‘. Within this section we will 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. Today, we are taking a look at Hannibal Renberg a Street Photographer from Paris, France. Renberg is an active member of the Paris Mobile Photography Community and has exhibited in many shows. He was also a Judge for the Street Category of the Paris Mobile Photography Award, see here. Renberg’s images portray…
