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Mobile Camera Club – Opening of the first 3.0 gallery Paris, March 6 2014
We are very excited to bring you news that the Mobile Camera Club gallery will host the second edition of Mobile Photo Paris from March 6 to March 29 2014. One exhibition, two openings: Thursday, March 6 2014 from 6 PM Sunday, March 16 from 3 PM Located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, Mobile Camera Club will exhibit mobile photography in all its forms. The name of the gallery is a tribute to camera clubs and photographic societies, which were the real “test kitchens” of the early photographic years. It is also a reference to Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer and gallery-owner born 150 years ago, who was a real…
Getty Images – Creative Grants Offered With Additional Award of $20k for Work that Focuses on Empowering Women and Girls
As you will be aware we are expanding at a rate of knots here at theappwhisperer.com to ensure that our readers are fully aware of as many opportunities as possible relating to their mobile photography and art. One of our new areas will bring you details of creative grants and residencies available throughout the world for artists. We’re starting today with an outstanding opportunity from Getty Images. They offer two grants of $20,000 to non profit organisations each year but this year inspired by their partnership with Lean In, they have made available an additional $20,000 to be shared by the photographer and creative agency whose joint proposal is to…
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…
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…
BlemishedEye Mobile Images Accompanied By British Composer, Edmund Hunt’s Music
We were delighted when David Booker aka BlemishedEye contacted us last week with news of this wonderful project that he had embarked upon with British Composer, Edmund Hunt. David contacted Edmund last year to ask if he might consider creating a piece of music to accompany some of his very special images. The result is quite spectacular. David explains, “After familiarising himself with my photography, he obliged and in early January 2014 sent me a short composition entitled ‘Ungelic is Us’ (a line from the Old English poem Wulf and Eadwacer, meaning ‘it is different for us’). This video is the resulting collaboration”. Edmund’s work has been played in the UK and…
Mobile Photography Awards 2013 – Winners & Honorable Mentions Announced!
We’re delighted to reveal that the Mobile Photography Awards (MPA) 2013 Winners and Honorable mentions have now been announced. As always we (I speak as a member of the Jury) were succumbed by the wealth of talent displayed across our screens. We’ve had more entries to this competition than ever before and the quality of submissions has been totally outstanding across all the categories. For my part, I was Lead Judge for one of the largest categories, if not the largest category ‘Digital Fine Art’. I am very pleased to announce that Cedric Blanchon took First Place here. The image that Cedric contributed ‘Unilateral Selection’ matched the criteria for this…
Mobile Photography Competition – 7th Annual iPhone Photography Awards – Open For Entries
The latest iPhone Photography Awards is now open for new submissions. iPhone Photography Awards™ (IPPAWARDS) is the first and the longest running iPhone photography competition since 2007. IPPAWARDS has been celebrating the creativity of the iPhone users since the first iPhone has inspired, excited and engaged the users worldwide. Since then every year, IPPAWARDS has selected the best shots among thousands of images submitted by iPhone photographers from 50+ countries around the world. Winners are selected by the jury members in several steps and The Photographer of the Year prize awarded. The 2013 winners of the most recent competition have recently been announced and you can view all the winning…
You Are The PROOF – Mobile Masters Photo Contest – We Donate Prizes!
We’re delighted to be part of the Mobile Masters Photo Contest 2014. 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. Last year’s edition was by invitation only, but with so much new and exciting work emerging from a diverse range of people and locations, the organisers wanted to invite all, from novice to pro, to…
Creative iPhone Photography – Workshop by Karen Divine
We’re delighted to announce within our Mob-Entrepeneurs section of the site that incredibly talented iPhone artist Karen Divine has launched a new photographic workshop running between March 10 – March 14, 2014. Click here to register and read below to learn more about the course ethos, structure and conclusion: ‘Tapping into your own creative spirit is, first and foremost, a matter of developing awareness. This awareness allows you to bring together information and material, expand your mind, quiet the senses, and allows the unconscious to reveal rich imagery. As Rainer Maria Rilke expressed so beautifully in Letters to a Young Poet, “…describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass…
Third Annual See.Me :Year In Review 2013 – Competition Announced – Fabulous Prizes!
You’re invited to participate in the 3rd annual See.Me : Year In Review competition, an international, all-medium-encompassing open call for art that will present one visionary with a $10,000 Grand Prize Award and an exclusive Featured Booth at SCOPE Art Show in New York City this March 2014. SCOPE is the world’s most international art fair. With over 45 fairs spanning the past 10 years, SCOPE has solidified its position as the premier showcase for international emerging contemporary art. With art fairs in London, Basel, New York, London and the Hamptons, art sales of over $450 million and over 700,000 attendees, SCOPE has become one of the most influential presences…


























