Home, Family and Community in a Historical Collective Moment.
$5,000
in cash prizes
Feature in a
200
images book
Collective
exhibition
at PHmuseum Lab
Online
exhibition
at PHmuseum
Thank you to all the applicants of this 2nd edition! Results will be announced in late July.
See the latest 50 featured photographs presented to the current open call. To be featured in this gallery or on social media, just apply and give us the permission to share them with our 500,000-person audience.
PHmuseum 2020 Mobile Photography Prize /
Latest 50 Featured Submissions
What can stimulate more conversations, controversies and reflections than images pretending to summarise a moment and become somehow iconic? The judges will take care of this arduous task, assigning 3 main prizes and up to 9 mentions.
| 1st Prize / | $2,500 |
| 2nd Prize / | $1,500 |
| 3rd Prize / | $1,000 |
| Up to 9 mentions |
PHmuseum's Team will select up to 200 images that will be published in a limited edition photobook. The publication will be the second title of a series of volumes aimed at exploring mobile photography. Here you can see the first volume, published with images from last year's call.
PHmuseum's Team will curate a collective exhibition at PHmuseum LAB in Bologna, Italy in January 2021 during ArteFiera, one of the most important art fairs in Europe. The event will be accompanied by the book presentation and a workshop on mobile photography.
Awarded by Kate Bubacz, Senior Photo Editor at BuzzFeed
Kate Bubacz, Senior Photo Editor at BuzzFeed, will handpick a selection of photographs from the open call to be published on BuzzFeed News, a global news organization providing original online reporting and video programming across Netflix, Facebook Watch, Twitter, Snapchat, and more.
Awarded by GUP Magazine Editorial Team
Since 2005, GUP Magazine aims to connect communities around contemporary art and documentary photography. Their Editorial Team will choose 3 photographers among all of the applicants who will be granted an online individual portfolio feature plus a yearly subscription to the printed magazine.
Awarded by Francesco Rombaldi, Editor in Chief
Yogurt Magazine is a visual arts magazine and curatorial platform focused on contemporary photography. Francesco Rombaldi, Luigi Cecconi and Yogurt editorial team will select 3 photographers from all the submissions to receive an online portfolio feature.
Selected by How To Spend It Editorial Team
How To Spend It has been part of the Financial Times newspaper for more than 40 years and is now widely regarded as the benchmark for luxury lifestyle magazines. Rasha Kahil, Creative Director and Katie Webb, Photo Editor will feature a selection of photographs from the open call on the magazine's website and 100,000-follower Instagram account.
Awarded by C41
C41 Magazine will pick its 5 favourite photographers from the contest submissions and will write a dedicated article on their projects on the website.
Together with the physical show in Italy and the book presentation, in January 2021 we will aslo present an online exhibition centred around this year’s theme: Inside. Here you can see the online exhibition made with images from last year's open call.
Each judge from the main panel will select 15 images that will be taken into consideration for the Mobile Photos of The Year. The images will have a dedicated announcement and promotion on PHmuseum's social media channels.
This open call is meant to be inclusive and stimulate a reflection on how mobile photography is influencing the medium and becoming part of our everyday life. Join our collective project as many professional and amateur photographers did last year.
More than 400 people joined us for the opening of the show co-created and produced with Spazio Labo'. The show had more than 3,000 visitors and was accompanied by a book presentation with Erik Kessels and Chiara Bardelli Nonino (Vogue Italia).
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Familiar Stranger is our first photobook on the subject, featuring 200 images from the 2019 open call. Self-published in January 2020 with original texts by Erik Kessels and PHmuseum Director's Giuseppe Oliverio, the volume is the first of a series. All the images of the current open call will be considered for the next volume, to be published in January 2021.
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In a time of unprecedented crisis, we are forced to re-think the relationship with ourselves and the Other, to grapple with fears, limits and ultimate existential concerns. I am hoping to see images that allow me to reflect on the sense of belonging to a family/community in a moment of isolation and the role played by camera phones in the communication of this collective experience. Francesca Marani, Judge and Photo Editor at Vogue Italia
Photo Editor at Vogue Italia
Since 2015 she has been part of Vogue Italia’s photography department. She is a contributor to Vogue.it, photo editor for the PhotoVogue platform and, alongside Alessia Glaviano and Chiara Bardelli Nonino, she is a curator of the Photo Vogue Festival. Francesca also manages the production of Vogue Italia’s photographic exhibitions and creates digital contents for Vogue Italia’s Instagram account.
In 2018 she curated a talk series about contemporary photography at the Affordable Art Fair (Milan), she co-curated the exhibition “Italian Panorama” at the Armani/Silos and was a juror of the Ooshot Award (Paris). Over the past few years Francesca has been a portfolio lecturer for the Blink Portfolio Review (New York), a juror of the Photolucida’s Critical Mass and collaborated with the PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant.
In 2019 Francesca took part in “Scouting for India”(Mumbai), the Vogue Talents’ project in collaboration with FAD International Academy, and she was a member of the jury of Fresh Eyes (GUP magazine). Francesca regularly collaborates with several photography festivals and schools as portfolio reviewer and lecturer.
Senior Photo Editor at BuzzFeed
Kate Bubacz is the photo director for BuzzFeed News. She works with photographers on feature assignments covering foreign affairs, cultural upheaval and investigations around the world. She also leads the JPG team at BuzzFeed News which covers the photographic community. Previously, she worked at ABC News and The New York Post.
Photographer
Piero Percoco was born in 1987. He grew up in Italy (Bari) but spent a lot of time in Venezuela during his childhood. In 2010 he enrolls in the degree program of Forest and Environmental Sciences of the Faculty of Agriculture, but drops out of the course 2 years after. In the same year, he shoots a photograph of a lightning from a bridge, after spending hours seeking the shot. A visceral reverence to the books of primarily Stephen Shore, William Eggleston and Andrew Miksys has allowed Percoco to break through the so often undermining social barriers of Southern Italy and create an existential perspective that focuses on extracting the magic in the nuances of his everyday. In 2012 he joined for an internship Cesura, a Milan-based collective of photographers founded by Alex Majoli. In 2013 he attended a workshop with Jacopo Benassi, where he was a three- day workshop staff at La Spezia (Italy). Piero shoot most of his pictures with an iphone regularly updating his instagram profile @therainbowisunderestimated.
Artist, Faculty at Pathshala Media Institute, Co-Curator at Chobi Mela
Sarker Protick has developed a practice that combines the roles of an image-maker, a teacher and infrequently a curator. His works revolve around the subjects of temporality, materiality of time and the metaphysical prospects of Light and Space. Working with Photography, Video and Sound manipulation, Protick has formed a series of works that are built on long-term surveys rooted in his home country, while simultaneously exploring ideas that blurs the notion of geopolitical boundaries. Incorporating detailed observations and subtle gestures, his works propose a subjective space, often minimal, vast and atmospheric.
Protick is interested in themes such as alteration of land and border, colonial history and relics and modern ecological emergencies. His landscapes, portraits and photographic series engage philosophically with the specificities of personal and regional histories. Protick is the recipient of Joop Swart Masterclass, Magnum Foundation Fund, Light Work Residency, World Press Photo Award etc. He has exhibited in museums, galleries and festivals including Hamburg Triennale, Paris Photo, Singapore Art Week, Riga Photography Biennale, Dhaka Art Summit, 4A Center of Contemporary Asian Art, Noor der licht, Art Dubai and more.
Sarker Protick is a faculty member of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute and Co-curator at Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography.
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Simply click on Apply Now to start your submission and follow the guided process. You will be asked to create an account or login.
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Upload between 1 and 10 photos. You can select them from your Instagram account, mobile or desktop library. Images shall have been taken from a mobile device (cellphone, tablets, etc..), be in JPG or PNG format and not weight more than 10MB each. All the resolutions are welcome. Images will be judged individually so there is no need to order them.
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Check all the info and submit your project, being aware that you will not be able to modify it after submission. The judges will review all entries, with winners to be announced in July 2020. To submit more images simply click again on Apply Now.
17 June 2020
Taking pictures with a smartphone has always been my attitude. It’s part of me, of my shy and impulsive way of doing things. However, the definition of “mobile photography” has always been a bit restrictive in my eyes: I don’t believe in categories but in intentions. I photograph with my smartphone out of necessity. It’s a narrative mode that is part of a deeply personal process, not a fashionable habit. When looking at photographs, I value the energy they convey, the story they reveal, whether it’s an impactful scene or a simple bucket on the floor. Piero Percoco, Judge and Photographer
