MPA partnership with LTD by Canvas Pop Announced

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The MPA is thrilled to officially announce a new partnership between the CanvasPop LTD Program and the Mobile Photography Awards. Starting in January, 2013 CanvasPop will be featuring MPA participants in their weekly Limited Edition sales series. Just another great reason to enter the annual Mobile Photo Awards! More info on the CanvasPop Blog and [...]

Fine Art, The MPA and the App Whisperer

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The App Whisperer is a media partner of the Mobile Photo Awards as well as one of the leading online resources for mobile photography and art. We recently had the occasion to speak with Joanne Carter, the publisher of the App Whisperer. We covered a wide range of issues with a primary focus on mobile [...]

The MPA Weekly Showcase for April 22-29

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Welcome to the Mobile Photo Awards Weekly Showcase for April 22-29. This week’s selection features tremendous entries from MPA stalwarts Karen Divine, Robert-Paul Jansen and Souichi Furusho as well as top shelf work from MPA newcomers Andrew Chapman, Andrew Proudlove and the always excellent Bryan Pahia. The entries continue to provoke and force us to [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sweet VIDEO Recap of MPA at OCCCA

Anthony Allan from MoboGraf writes: On Saturday, April 7th, the Mobile Photo Awards kicked-off their inaugural exhibit at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Ana, California, and Mobograf was there. The exhibit, which also opened at ArtHaus in San Francisco on April 5th, featured 60 framed and matted images from 27 entry [...]

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.