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 [...]

Paul Moore: an iPhoto Essay from Ireland

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The Mobile Photo Awards is pleased to present the Mobile Photography of Paul Moore. We have always been struck by the beauty of his landscapes from his native Ireland, specifically from the Lough Boora Parklands near his home. Please enjoy his marvellous, soulful images. “Everyone needs a place they can go to escape the madness [...]

Emily Rose on Conflict

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Another entry in the MPA iPhoneography StoryLines series Conflict was the winning image in the 2011 MPA Self-Portrait Category. Conflict is such a personal image, it’s like a window into my truth. It tells the story about my internal conflict of feeling sexy and vibrant yet also feeling the need to hide those feelings from [...]

The MPA Weekly Showcase for March 18-25

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Welcome to the inaugural Mobile Photo Awards weekly showcase. We were 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.” We had several hundred pictures submitted and carefully chose what we felt was a cohesive gallery while simultaneously [...]

Singapore’s Little India – the lens of KonaHead

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This week’s mobile photo essay takes us to the streets of Singapore’s Little India. One of our favorite mobile street photographers here at the MPA is Adrian Leong aka KonaHead – we’ve been following his work for quite a while now and are very pleased to present his work here on the Mobile Photo Awards [...]

California Home & Design Features the MPA

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Inside the 2012 Mobile Photo Awards Exhibit From the March issue of California Home and Design Magazine: “Smartphones have infiltrated almost every aspect of our lives, so it’s no surprise that they’re now making waves in the art world as well. Discreet, quick and readily accessible, the micro lenses in such phones let professional and [...]

Upcoming MPA Exhibits

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Following the submission period last fall and the judging over Christmas time we finally find ourselves close to spring and that means one thing for the Mobile Photo Awards: exhibits! The moment we’ve all been waiting for. The last few weeks have been a scramble to get all of the images properly sized, printed, framed [...]

The Orange winner announced!

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Let’s be clear: choosing one image from a list of 994 is nearly impossible and it’s inevitable that one’s final decision could change on any given day. There are dozens of brilliant images in the ORANGE album. Alas, we could choose but one to join the Mobile Photo Awards exhibit at the Orange County Center [...]

Eric Einwiller on Horizontally Vertical

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Another entry in the MPA iPhoneography StoryLines series: My image titled Horizontally Vertical was taken at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. My wife and I like to take our two sons there to experience the amazing collections as well as the building. This image shows my youngest son lying down on a slatted [...]

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.