Founded in 2011, the Mobile Photography Awards is the longest running international competition open exclusively to photographs shot and edited on all mobile phones and tablets.
The Awards recognise and celebrate the talent and imagery of the mobile phone photo and art communities.
For the 2024 contest, there is over $10,000 in prizes to be won:
- $3000 Grand Prize
- $250 for each of the Category Winners
- $500 Photo Essay Prize…and much more!
Competition categories include:
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN/STILL LIFE: Our surroundings are full of visually interesting buildings, structures, designs and patterns from the countryside to the city.
BLACK & WHITE: In the digital era, photographers are no longer limited by darkroom costs or film choice and the allure of Black & White is as strong as ever.
DIGITAL FINE ART / VISUAL FX: This category is for manipulated and altered images using additional elements like textures, multiple exposures, and app effects to create an image from the imagination of the artist.
LANDSCAPES & WILDLIFE: In many ways, landscapes are the most difficult kind of photos to produce with a mobile phone camera. Most landscape shots taken with a DSLR have the advantage…
MACRO/DETAILS: When you magnify a subject, you bring your viewers into a world impossible to witness with the naked eye.
PEOPLE: The People category is always the busiest in the MPA because it’s about everybody’s favorite subject: our species!
PORTRAITS & SELF PORTRAITS: The simplest definition is that portraits are artistic representations of the likeness of person.
THE DARKNESS: Think shadows, mystery, low key exposures, night shots, deep, rich, dark colours and misty, cryptic Black and Whites.
TRAVEL & TRANSPORTATION: Travel photography is about conveying through images an area’s landscape, people, cultures, customs, architecture and history.
SILHOUETTES: Silhouettes create such powerful images, due to the simple isolation of subject. They remove all distractions and all you see is the a perfectly sharp black outline against a beautiful background.
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY: A mobile phone is perhaps the perfect tool for the street photographer unobtrusive, light, and relatively simple to use.
WATER/SNOW/ICE: Water, in all its forms, is an endlessly inspiring photographic subject.
THE PHOTO ESSAY: The Photo Essay category is a sub-component of the MPA and awards its own prize of $500 separate from all other categories.
To enter Mobile Photography Awards , click here.
Entry deadline is December 11, 2024.