Life in LoFi: iPhoneography

EYE’EM CALLING FOR ENTRIES NOW!

EYE’EM has announced a call for entries for the EYE’EM Mobile Photography Award 2010. Entries from any mobile device are accepted, not just iPhones. Also, you are permitted to use desktop apps such as Photoshop to retouch your images.

Sion Fullana is judging this year’s EYE’EM Award. Sion is a professional photographer, journalist and filmmaker living in New York City. He has been featured in photography blogs and magazines, such as Time Out NY, Photocritic.org, American Photo Magazine and Wink-Magazine. In a very short period of time, he has become a celebrated pioneer in cellphone photography, using his 3G iPhone and experimenting with a select group of iPhone photo apps. He is one of iPhoneography’s most recognized members.

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Pixels at an Exhibition
www.pixelsatanexhibition.com
through March 2010

His Name is Freddy

This month, March 2010, I am glad and honored to have been invited to be the first featured photographer for Pixels at an Exhibition. Knox Bronson is the curator and webmaster for PixelEx and helped put together the recent Giorgi Gallery exhibit of iPhone photography.

I recently shot a photo story just for this gallery. They’ll only be posted at PixelEx this month.

I love the spontaneity of shooting with an iPhone. Despite the relatively low resolution of my 2G, it really can take remarkable photos. More importantly, it’s there with me all the time to capture remarkable images. As they say, I have a camera that I sometimes use to make phone calls.

Head over to my intro page on PixelEx and you can click here to view my images.

Thank you, Knox et al, for this opportunity.

I hope y’all enjoy my photography. Thank you for visiting.

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Link:  Pixels at an Exhibition

The Hipstamatic iPhone app is creating quite a buzz in the world of iPhoneography. Do you have a hot Hipstamatic shot? Submit your Hipstamatic images for a chance to be one of three featured iPhoneographers on iPhoneography.org.

A call for entries has gone out for a new photo contest from Colin Vincent’s iPhoneography.org blog. Submit your best photos shot with Hipstamatic for iPhone for a chance to be one of three featured photographers. You can submit an unlimited number of HipstaPics. Entries will be accepted through March 2, 2010.

Here’s the contest link for submissions, contest rules, image requirements and more information.

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January 30, 2010
Giorgi Gallery
Berkeley, California

Bottom Line: If you’re in or near the Bay Area, this is a Don’t Miss exhibition.

Pixels at an Exhibition, Giorgi Gallery

Pixels at an Exhibition is the first brick and mortar iPhoneography exhibit. While there have been other brick and mortar exhibitions where iPhone photography was a component, Pixels at an Exhibition is the first gallery show to feature iPhoneography exclusively. What organizers and curators Knox Bronson and Rae Douglass have done is to reach out to iPhoneographers around the globe. They’ve created an exhibition that exemplifies what the iPhone is capable of artistically and celebrates a broad range of styles coming from photographers who have embraced the technology of the iPhone and the spontaneity of having an inconspicuous camera with you everywhere you go.

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If you’re in or around the Bay Area this weekend, be sure to drop by the opening of Pixels at an Exhibition at Giorgi Gallery in Berkeley, California. The list of finalists has been posted and this looks to be quite an exhibition. The exhibit features works of dozens of iphoneographers from around the globe including Dixon Hamby, Dominique Jost, Valerie Ardini and some guy called Marty (three of my photos were selected!)

The opening is this Saturday from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM. We’ll be there and follow up with our impressions of the exhibition and the scope of the work.

Giorgi Gallery
2911 Claremont Blvd.
Berkeley, CA.
www.giorgigallery.com

Details at iphontography.org.

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Editor’s Note: 2010 is starting off as a great year for exhibitions of iPhone photography. Another interesting showing is the 1 is enough Exhibition, presented by iPhography.com, Taky Magazine and the 1k x 1k Gallery.

The selected images will be shown in print and galleries in several countries spanning the globe. The exhibit will also be featured in the French culture magazine Taky. There’s great exposure for the artist and this exhibition certainly has a lot of reach and clout to expand the audience of the photography shot with iPhones.

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Friday, January 8, 2010, the Chicago Art Department hosted an exhibition that was the culmination of a several week program to explore and push the boundaries of art created with iPhones. With an emphasis that included several media not just iPhoneography, iPhone therefore iArt presented outstanding works from local Chicago artists, as well as submissions by other artists from around the globe.

iPhone therefore iArt. Photo by mARTa Sasinowska

If you weren’t able to attend the Chicago exhibit, here’s the Chicago Art Department Flickr set with pictures of the event and some of the art. iPhoneographer Kay Frederick was there as well and has posted her photos of the event here.

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LifeInLoFi.com has been helping to promote Giorgi Gallery’s iPhoneography exhibition for several weeks. The exhibition opens at the end of January. I’ve submitted five images for possible inclusion.

Please click the link to go to my photos on iPhontography.org. If you like them, please vote up my photos When In Rhome, Sunday in Starbucks, Light and Fog, Convergence, and A Good Day on US 287. If you enter via the front page, as of Thursday, January 7, they are about 2/3 of the way down the front page.

A lot of great images that have been submitted. I like the geometry and simplicity of Mike Pouliot’s Lock, the power of Frederico Motto’s Homeless, and the captured moment and high contrast of Dixon Hamby’s Ramp. I’m excited about this exhibition as more and more people become aware of the great photos that are being created on the iPhone. If you haven’t submitted your entries yet, deadline for submission is January 15, 2010. Details are on the site.

Thank you!

=M=

Pixels at an Exhibition
Deadline for submissions: January 15
Voting begins on January 15 through January 20
Reception and show opening January 30, 4-8 PM

Giorgi Gallery
2911 Claremont Blvd.
Berkeley, CA
www.giorgigallery.com

Exhibit: January 30 – February 27, 2010

Details at iphontography.org

200 images will be printed and displayed in the gallery for the month of February 2010, and will be sold as individual works of art. A book will be published that will include all of the images along with names and a short bio of each iPhoneographer.

Deadline for submissions: January 10. Voting begins on January 15 through January 20. Reception and show opening January 30. There is no submission fee, but each iPhoneographer is limited to 5 images.

Register at iphontography.org and read the submission guidelines to start.

Note from =M=: Another deadline for a brick-and-mortar iPhoneography exhibition looms, this one on the west coast at the Giorgi Gallery in Berkeley. I’m submitting my 5 images to this exhibit and I’m looking forward to seeing what organizer Knox Bronson has in store for the overall project. I like the idea of a book — the catalog — of the exhibition, and the opportunity it gives for the permanence of print.

Images that have been submitted for this exhibition are currently on display at iphontography.org.

iPhone therefore iArt
Chicago Art Department

Exhibition @CAD East Gallery
1837 South Halsted, Chicago
Friday, January 8, 2010, 6-10pm

Email mike@chicagoartdepartment.org for questions.

iPhone therefore iArt at the CAD (Image created by Mike Nourse, Jon Satrom, Carl Sweets, and Melissa Porter. Apps: Satromizer, Collage, Juxtaposer, and Swissmaker.)

Chicago Art Department is pleased to present 25 artists from around the world, all exploring the iPhone as creative tool.

iPhone Therefore iArt is the culmination of a class led by Chicago artist Mike Nourse, offered by the Chicago Art Department which features ten local artists who met weekly, working towards a completed project in areas such as photo, digital sketching (finger painting), animation, sound, and video. In addition to local artists, CAD program coordinator Mike Nourse brought in national and international iPhone artists from as far away as Russia, Norway,  Spain, France, and Germany. The end-result is a comprehensive look at this digital tool and some of its artistic possibilities.

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