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The deadline has been extended for the MIRA Mobile Photography black and white street photography competition until 1 February 2019. This is a free to enter competition.
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We are delighted to announce the MIRA Mobile Prize Black & White Competition is now open for entries. This is a free to enter competition with three images per photographer being permitted. The Jury consists of four globally awarded and/or recognised with merit for their photography and specifially their mobile photography, artists. These include Brendan O Se, Armineh Hovanesian, Jacinto Lara and Claudia Conteras.
The winner of this competition will enjoy a week in Porto, Portugal (from any European country) with accomodation.
The deadline for this competition is 26 January 2019.
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We’re fast approaching the deadline for the MIRA Mobile Prize 2018. This is a free to enter mobile photography and art competition with an exhibition of the winning art. The MIRA Mobile Prize is one of my favourite annual mobile photography and art competitions and I am extremely happy to be a member of the Jury. Please don’t hesitate to enter this competition. To read the rules, please go here.
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I am so excited to publish the results of the Black and White Street Photography MIRA Mobile Prize competition 2017. Manuela Matos Monteiro, the host invited mobile photographers throughout the world to capture the true character and essence of a street environment including people, traffic, gardens and public places. This year the Jury comprised of … Read moreMobile Photography – MIRA Mobile Prize – Winner and Shortlist Results 2017 – Black & White Street Photography
This years MIRA Mobile Prize was dedicated to our very dear friend Carolyn Hall Young, a truly honourable, hugely talented and very much loved artist and friend to so many, not least myself and I truly miss her every single day. Thank you Manuela Matos Monteiro for organising this years competition and for dedicating it … Read moreMobile Photography – MIRA Mobile Prize – Winner and Shortlist Results – 2017 ‘Earth Our Planet’
The deadline for the prestigious Mobile MIRA Prize competition has been extended to 10 March 2016. Each year there is a specific theme for the competition, this year it is ‘Earth – our home’ – to read more about the definition of this competition, please go here.
This free to enter competition allows you to submit up to three images related to this theme. All images must have been taken and edited with a mobile device.
The winning images will be displayed within an Exhibition in Porto, Portugal on 25th March 2017 until 6 May 2017.
The Grand Prize winner will receive return paid for flights from a European capital to Porto. Full board for five nights and more.
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The organisers of the Mira Mobile Prize have extended the deadline for this fabulous competition to 5 March, 2016. This years theme is ‘Connections’, defined for this competition as ‘all kinds of connections: cultural, visual, emotional, symbolic’. This free to enter competition allows you to submit up to three images related to this theme. All images must have been taken and edited with a mobile device.
The winning images will be displayed within an Exhibition in Porto, Portugal on 30th April 2016 until 11th June 2016.
The Grand Prize winner will receive return paid for flights from a European capital to Porto. Full board for five nights and more.
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It is so wonderful to see the images from the opening event of the MIRA Mobile Prize 2015, of which I was very proudly a Jury member. Manuela Matos Monteiro put on the most wonderful show, this is what she had to say;
“The day was gorgeous, the exhibition fantastic and a lot of public attend to our exhibition. It was a great idea to project the 200 photo (50 shortlisted+150) because there is so great works worthy to be seen. Some mobile photographers from UK and Spain came to participate and that was really nice. The responsible of Culture in Porto was very proud with the exhibition. We thank again and again to our jury and to all candidates. The event was great because we got splendid photographies and we feel very proud!”
We have attached some images from the opening event below. The exhibition will run until 13 June 2015, so if possible, please try to visit.
Many of you will be aware that I was invited to speak on stage at The Photography Show this year about mobile photography. This is the largest annual photography show in Europe and it was a privilege to be asked to talk. I was not given a brief, other than being told I had been booked for four 30 minute seminars over two days. I didn’t need or want a brief, I knew what I wanted to talk about, I knew what a wanted to share with the audience. I wanted to ensure that every single person that attended my talks, left inspired, invigorated with their minds buzzing at the possibilities of mobile photography and what can be achieved. I’m delighted to say, this happened each and every time, literally time after time.
My talks could have quite easily have extended to 60 minutes, I had plenty of content and the audience wanted more. It was not possible to extend due to the packed schedule of events.
After each seminar many of the audience approached me, eager to learn more about the artists I had been portraying. Asking advice regarding selling or buying mobile images and art. They shared some of their work with me, left me their details, told me their minds were alive, they felt invigorated. I knew it was a job well done. The audience consisted of a wide spectrum of wonderful minds, from the Head of Photography at Cambridge University (who was incidentally hugely inspired, he told me he had learnt so much, and came back for a second talk too), to professional artists and photographers, to Journalists, TV presenters and to students from Universities from around country.
I’d spent several weeks working around the clock preparing for the show. I had contacted some of our Columnists to ask for contributions as well and each and everyone that I asked produced outstanding work, which I will show.
In this post I am going to detail the first part of Seminar 1 and the second part to follow in the next article. I will follow throughout the week with Seminars 2, 3 and 4.
I asked Vivi Hanson Sacerdote to accompany me as an Assistant and she was perfect, very professional, I am so thankful to her, many of you will have seen the images and short videos that she posted on FB of the event, I can’t thank her enough.
Do you know that you still have 10 days to submit your images to the second edition of MIRA Mobile Prize?
The competition, without fees attached, aims to choose the best mobile photograph (image captured and edited by mobile devices) under the theme “Streets of the World”.
To enter this competition, all you need to do is submit up to three images via email to miraprize@espacomira.net picturing streets of any town or city in the world.
A jury of eight personalities (including myself) of different nationalities, with recognized merit in mobile photography and the visual arts, will elect on the 18th July 2015 the shortlist of 50 works and the respective winner. The gallery MIRA Forum (Porto, PT) will launch on 18th April 2015 the group exhibition with the selected images.
The overall winner will receive a week in Porto (six days, five nights, including accommodation and food) and a return trip from any European capital.
Full details can be found in this link.
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