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The nominations for Spain’s prestigious eyephoneography #3 exhibit have been posted. Out of all the submissions received for this curated exhibit, the finalists have been narrowed down to 14 iPhoneographers. The list will be narrowed further for the four mobile photographers to be shown later this year in.

It’s a great list, including iPhoneographers Annie Mallegol, Brian Schatko, Dave Weekes, Edgar Cuevas and more. The selections show a broad range of styles from abstracts to dreamscapes to black and white street photography.

The eyephoneography #3 exhibition will open this April 2012 in the gallery of the recently inaugurated Castellana FNAC flagship store in the heart of Madrid.

In the words of Natasha Egan, “the potential of mobile photography as a vehicle for contemporary artistic photography is huge; an artist just has to find a unique voice and a conceptual angle.”

Those selected for eyephoneography #3 join an exclusive list of photographers including Sion Fullana, Marco La Civita, Jordi V. Pou, Matt Burrows, ©arlein, Greg Schmigel, Isabelle “MissPixels” Gagne, and Stefano Giogli.

To see the entire list of 14 including samples of their work, see the announcement on eyephoneography.com.

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There is less than a week left to submit your photos to the eyephoneography #3 open call.

Submissions are free and will be accepted through February 3rd, 2012 at 23:29 (GMT+1) — that’s 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time in New York City.

More information can be found on eyephoneography’s website, including more details, submission instructions, and some indications of what the selection committee is looking for.

The eyephoneography #3 exhibition will open this April 2012 in the gallery of the recently inaugurated Castellana FNAC flagship store in the heart of Madrid.

This prestigious curated exhibit is reviewed by a world-class committee (I was one of the curators for eyephonography #2). If selected, you also take part in the traveling exhibit Mobile eyephoneography. You would also join very short list of top-notch mobile photographers that eyephoneography has exhibited so far.

Visit the eyephoneography #3 open-call page and submit your work.

There are no fees to submit or to participate in the exhibition if selected.

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We are looking for people whose photographic message is powerful and original.

We are looking for interesting stories.

We are looking for mobile photographers with a vision.

We want to put the spotlight on four mobile photographers who have something to say with their images.

In other words, this open call is not a best photo contest.

eyephoneography is now accepting submissions for its third series of exhibitions. Like its predecessors, eyephoneography #3 focuses on the iPhoneographer’s body of work, rather than each individual image. Only a handful of iPhoneographers are selected — four will be selected for this edition. The exhibit always generates a lot of publicity in Spain and Europe. This is a very prestigious exhibition.

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eyephoneography is proud to announce that Europe’s first traveling exhibit of mobile photography will be on the road starting September 2011.

The show is entitled Mobile eyephoneography and it will be traveling for over a year, stopping in eight main cities in Spain.

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eyephoneography #2 opens in Madrid today, April 15th and runs through May 29th, 2011.

The work of Matt Burrows, ©arlein, Stefano Giogli and Jordi V. Pou will be featured in this second edition and will inspire off- and on-line debates culminating in an in-person series of talks during the opening weekend.

Among the events are an online community-fed slideshow that all mobile photographers are invited to participate in. Read past the jump for more info.

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From the press release on eyephonography.com:

After the first edition of eyephoneography, we are thrilled to announce that eyephoneography #2 will take place in Madrid from April 15th to May 29th, 2011.

The work of Matt Burrows, ©arlein, Stefano Giogli and Jordi V. Pou will be featured in this second edition and will inspire off- and on-line debates culminating in an in-person series of talks during the opening weekend.

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Earlier this year in September, Madrid, Spain hosted its first iPhone photography exhibition, eyephoneography #1, at an artist’s collective called The Hub-Madrid. The show was unexpectedly suspended after the photographs were taken down, damaged or destroyed. The show was vandalized.

Few details were released while this was under investigation. Marco La Civita, one of the artists featured in the show and who has close ties to the organizers of eyephoneography, has broken the silence and released a little bit of information about the events of last September. It’s a short read, but it’s an insight into some of the political gamesmanship that occurs in the art world.

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iPhoneographer Dixon Hamby, whose tweet I followed to find this, said it best.

“This is sad.”

We are using the past tense, because the eyephoneography #1 show has now been suspended. It was supposed to last until October 1st, but the 48 exhibited images that had attracted so much interest in the past days were torn down by some people of the HUB-Madrid. It was a raptus of inexplicable madness that we are still digesting and thinking how to deal with.

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eyephoneography #1 opens tomorrow at The Hub in Madrid, Spain. They are inviting iPhoneographers from around the world to participate in this exhibition. Remember, Madrid is 6 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight time and a full 9 hours ahead of Pacific Daylight time.

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Press release:

Exhibit your images during eyephoneography #1 Friday, September 17 (that’s tomorrow) via our Photo-Jockeying activity

As already announced in the photo-event agenda, the images of the four international photographers featured in eyephoneography #1 will be escorted by those sent by the mobile photography community during the opening event.

Even if you are not able to participate in the launching at the HUB Madrid next Friday, you will be able to contribute your images from anywhere in the world in real time. And if you are present at the opening, you’ll be able to send them as well, of course!

Click here to read more at the eyephoneography web site, including how to submit photos. >>>

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September 17th, that’s about ten days until eyephoneography, a high-visibility exhibition at The Hub in Madrid, Spain. This inaugural show features the works of Sion Fullana, Marco La Civita, Isabelle “MissPixels” Gagné, and Greg Schmigel.

We’d recently posted links to interviews with others in the exhibit’s selection committee. As we get closer to the opening of the exhibit, here is a link to a recent interview with selection committee member Cayetana de la Quadra-Salcedo.

Like the other members of the selection committee, her thoughts on her favorite images are insightful. Overall, the selection committee’s insights have been for me an interesting look into what the mindset is when curating an artistic event with a global reach like this one.

“[Mobile photography] is a new form of communication, supported by a new technology, and it is when the technique is mastered, that the artistic distillation appears. I think this movement should retain its freshness as a trait, accepting imperfection as a possible language so as to differentiate itself from other photographic disciplines.”

Read her entire interview here on eyephonography.com.

The agenda for eyephonography’s opening weekend, September 17-18, 2010, is here.

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