Cindy Patrick – a Personal Street Photography

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Here at the Mobile Photo Awards we are big fans of photographer and artist Cindy Patrick. Her style is readily identifiable, unique – her work speaks with a clear voice. We invited her to submit a thematic photo essay and she chose to focus on her recent street photography. This work is different from what [...]

Mobile Photo Awards on ABC News!

ABC 7 in San Francisco ran a prime time news piece on the Mobile Photo Awards on April 24th – the following was written by reporter Don Sanchez: “You could become an award winning photographer with something you carry around every day — your cellphone. A new exhibition of mobile photography award winners has open [...]

Where I Dwell – Street Photos by Travis Jensen

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On the night of the Mobile Photo Awards exhibition premiere at the ArtHaus gallery we had the great pleasure of meeting San Francisco street photographer Travis Jensen. His passion for his craft is infectious – his talent undeniable. We had a wonderful chat about the importance of context, that is, working thematically with one’s images. [...]

The MPA Weekly Showcase for April 11-18

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Welcome to the Mobile Photo Awards Weekly Showcase for April 11-18. This week’s selection features more excellent work from Michal Koralewski, a stunner from Paul Moore, mobile art from Olive Charlene and Catherine Restivo, a 9 image panorama from Safeco Field by Paul Marsh and much more from some of the bright lights on the [...]

MPA Exhibition Catalog

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The Mobile Photo Awards are pleased to offer our inaugural exhibit catalog, published exclusively by Blurb. A beautiful edition containing all of the printed images from the ArtHaus exhibit, rendered on premium lustre paper in full color, is available for worldwide purchase as of today. The 60 page book is available in three versions: softcover, [...]

Heather Craig on Curvaceous

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Another entry in the Mobile Photo Awards StoryLines series Curvaceous was the winning image in the 2011 MPA Plants/Flowers Category My “Curvaceous” image was created about half-way through my 365 project–I was committed to taking, processing, and posting a picture every day for an entire year. It was late in the evening and I was [...]

The MPA Weekly Showcase for April 3-10

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Welcome to the second set of the March 26-April 10 Mobile Photo Awards Weekly Showcase. This week’s selection features some brilliant portraits, streets scenes, mobile art, and much more from some of the bright lights on the mobile photography and art scene. Please enjoy the showcase! Please keep those images coming and thank you for [...]

The Umbrellas of Furusho

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Like so many others, we at the MPA shake our heads at the originality and power of Souichi Furusho’s iphone images. There is clearly a dreamlike and dramatic narrative running through Furusho’s work and we found his consistent use of the umbrella intriguing. Why umbrellas? What do they mean to you? We asked him about [...]

Mobile Photo Awards in the SF Examiner

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Super cool to be featured in today’s edition of the San Francisco Examiner. Thanks much to Lauren Gallagher for totally understanding Mobile Photography and writing such a nice piece. Anyone who puts Jose Chavarry and Magnum in the same sentence is cool by us! Here’s the first part of the article – follow the link [...]

The MPA Weekly Showcase for March 26-April 2

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Welcome to the second Mobile Photo Awards weekly showcase. We were once again overwhelmed with quality submissions from all genres of mobile photography: from street photos to landscapes, from layered app-stractions to what we like to call “mobile art.” This week’s set prominently features kisses, kids, landscapes, appstractions and more…Due to the opening of the [...]

About the MPA

The Mobile Photo Awards were founded to promote the global phenomenon of mobile photography and art.  The awards are committed to presenting the art-form in galleries and exhibits. The MPA is the world's largest open gallery call and competition of its kind.