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Welcome to the MPA Blog!
Welcome! This site is about the artists, images and all information about the MPA. At it’s core, the site is dedicated to personal stories. Stories about pictures, about artists, about photographic inspiration. We are more interested in why pictures are made than in how they are made. You will find the stories behind each of the MPA [...]
MPA 2011 Summary
The Mobile Photo Awards had the largest response to a paid open-call in the short history of Mobile Photography. With over 100,000 page views and 17,000 unique visitors from 114 countries, the awards had over 2200 image entries. The competition was designed to celebrate the explosive growth of mobile-phone photography and art. The winning 25 [...]
Ft. Lauderdale Sun
Today, well into its third year as a daily event, the FtLauderdaleSun beach photography project remains essentially unchanged from the day it began. The concept is quite simple. I take a daily dawn walk along Ft Lauderdale Beach, north from Hugh Taylor Birch State Park. I take and share iPhone photographs along the way, primarily [...]
The Gentleman
Cindi Hobgood reflects on her award winning photo “The Gentleman.” I was walking down the street early one morning and saw this well dressed man standing outside a deli. I asked permission to take his picture and after a couple of frames I asked him to hold my umbrella to hide the distracting elements in [...]
Iron Man
Kert Gartner reflects on his award winning image “Iron Man.” This was a fun image to create. My friends and I were at Patricia Beach, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada last summer for the afternoon just hanging out and enjoying the day. It’s one of our favourite places to go and relax. I had just started [...]
Mobile Landscape Tips
In many ways, landscapes are the hardest kind of photography to produce with a mobile phone. Most landscape shots taken with a DSLR have the advantage of filters, depth-of-field control and ultra-long exposure times. Yet stunning images of the natural world are produced everyday by mobile photographers. Here is the first of a two part [...]
MPA Grand Prize Winner
The MPA is thrilled to announce INDIFFERENCE as our first Grand Prize winner. Stefano Pessarelli’s piece is a soulful and inspiring image of innocence, a powerful moment in time between the photographer and the two children. The contrast between the delight of the girl showing her toy and the seeming “Indifference” of her companion in [...]
MPA at Arthaus Gallery
The first Mobile Photo Awards exhibit will take place from April 5 through June 30, 2012 at San Francisco’s prestigious ArtHaus. The three-month exhibit will feature 50 framed and matted limited edition prints from our award winners as well as a set of images from our jury members. In addition, we will exhibit 10-15 pictures [...]
