It’s been a long time since we left behind the debate about whether or not you could do professional photography with a mobile phone. But just in case, the Mobile Photography Awards are there every year to remind us. This international contest rewards the best images made with smartphones or tablets. This year’s delivery has had a very good participation and a winner who has taken geometry and simplicity to a new level.
We already have the winners of this year’s Mobile Photography Awards
The camera doesn’t make the photographer, and the Mobile Photography Awards prove it every year. This 2021/2022 edition has had 5,500 photographs sent by participants from 90 different countries . The mobile phone most used by the contestants in this edition has again been the iPhone , although the founder of the contest, Daniel Berman, believes that this trend is changing, because just in this edition a greater variety of mobile devices has been seen than in previous contests.
The contest has had 12 categories , three prizes for the best photographic essays and an absolute winner . The winners of each category have won a prize of 500 dollars, while the winner of the edition has received a prize of 3,000 dollars.
This is the winning gallery of Liu Kun Kun
Liu Kun Kun, an amateur photographer from Shanghai, has been the absolute winner this year thanks to a very well cohesive series , with a very minimalist, geometric style and where perspective predominates.
All of his images have been captured and edited on an iPhone 12 Pro Max. According to the photographer, his idea was to deconstruct the idea that we all have of landscape photography. This is how Rodrigo Rivas has let us know, who has had the privilege of being part of the jury of this edition of the Mobile Photography Awards.
These are the 3 winners of the Essay category
The essay has had first, second and third prize. The winning series was Vince Keresnyei’s Free from Panic . The photographer has portrayed his own illness, panic disorder , through Adrienn, a girl who also suffers from the same. Thanks to her, Keresnyei has been able to portray the entire process of the disease, with its ups and downs, something that he could never have done by putting himself as a subject in front of the camera.
Second prize went to Jeff Larason’s Mass Ave. Mass Ave is a street that crosses Boston from end to end, joining places as disparate as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or camps full of homeless people and drug addicts.
And, finally, the third prize has been won by Alessandra Manzotti with The Olive Harvest , with a series in which she has photographed the olive harvesting process using the traditional method, that is, using a net and a stick.
Other categories
Finally, there are another 12 participants who have won a prize after taking first place in the remaining categories . These are some of the winning photographs in these themes:
Svetlin Yosifov (Black and White)
Anh Vu Do (People)
James Peck (Macro) / Shinya Itahana (Nature)
Roy Pan (Street) / Kuanglong Zhang (Architecture)
Ying Kwok (Darkness) / Junbiao Cai (Water, Snow, Ice)