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…
iPad Photography App Tutorial Pixelmator Part 2: Create Image, Layer Basics and Adjust Color by Jerry Jobe
We are delighted to publish Part 2 (of 5) of a wonderful series of tutorials covering the brand new Pixelmator app for iPad. If you missed Part 1, please go here. This time Jerry goes a little deeper, discussing layering and more. We’re quite sure you will find this tutorial invaluable (foreword by Joanne Carter). Pixelmator for iPad retails for $4.99/£2.99 and you can download it here “In Part 1 of the Pixelmator series of articles, the basics were covered: opening a file, adding layers, dealing with the gallery, saving a merged version of the layered image. Of course, that merely scratches the surface of what Pixelmator can do.…
‘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…
Streets Ahead – Challenge 8 – Selfies On The Street – Deadline – 30th November 2014
Time for a new challenge. This challenge is different to our previous seflie challenge (which was in the style of Vivian Maier). This time, we would like you to capture people taking selfies of themselves on the street – ‘social media models’. So to be clear, this is NOT a self portrait challenge – the aim is to capture other people capturing themselves. A recap of the rules and procedure for entry: 1. ONE entry only – please do not upload any other images to this group as it has been created specifically for the challenge only. The admins will delete images that are not relevant. 2. Upload your image…
‘Impossible’ Interview with Claude Peschel Dutombe
Today, we are delighted to publish our eighteenth ‘Impossible’ article (to view the others, go here), this time we are featuring the son of a playwright and a film director, Claude Peschel Dutombe. Born and raised in Berlin and Dutombe has made Asia his home for more than 15 years now. Growing up with strong creative influences, his artistic vision was shaped early on by exposure to filmmaking and extensive travel — and he has mostly made Asian and Middle Eastern themes the subject of his creative work ever since. Don’t miss this…
Latest LensCulture Article Published by Joanne Carter with Helen Breznik – Mobile Photography
I’m so delighted to announce that the latest article as Contributing Editor to LensCulture has just been published. This time, I interviewed the incredibly talented Helen Breznik, she’s a magnificent inspiration to so many mobile photographers. “My photography is a place where there are no limits. A place where I can be fearless, where I can be whomever I like. Where I can escape from the ordinary to an idyllic world. I create characters that are not necessarily “me”, but they are a reflection of what appeals to me.” —Helen Breznik, in conversation with LensCulture contributing editor Joanne Carter To read the complete article and admire her wonderful images, please…
Streets Ahead – Challenge 7 – Steal a Moment
Welcome to the showcase for our seventh challenge ‘Steal a Moment’. The objective of these challenges is to help us collectively practice and perhaps learn some new techniques. Each challenge will be based either on a shooting technique or perhaps a theme. We announced this challenge within our Streets Ahead Facebook group and it features fabulous mobile photography taken on the street using frames such as windows and doorways to create a ‘frame within a frame’. We would like Streets Ahead to be and interactive group, and for members to try to participate in the challenges. If you are a woman street photographer, please join our growing community (see links…
The GoPro Camera For The Visually Impaired Photographer – TheAppWhisperer
We are delighted to publish our latest article to our Photo Education & Accessibility.There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness (something that I have) to many other difficulties that people experience, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. Our Photo Education & Accessibility Editor, Luis Perez is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of South Florida in…
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…
‘Impossible’ Tutorial – Double Exposures With The Instant Lab
We’re delighted to be working closer with The Impossible Project team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and…
