MIRA Mobile Prize B&W

Gina Costa is a photographic artist, art historian, museum professional, and independent curator. She earned her graduate degrees in art history from the University of Chicago, and has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork City, The Art Institute of Chicago, and has taught at several universities and colleges.

Winner of the 2018 and 2019 Julia Margaret Cameron Photography award, and the 2016 Latin American Photography awards, her work has also been featured in Lensculture, F-Stop Magazine, and Lenscratch. Gina explores multiple formats including, film, digital, polaroid, and mobile. She has taught workshops about mobile photography in the United States and Europe, and is an internationally-know, published, award-winning photographer.

She has shown at the International Center for Photography, New York City; The MIRA FORUM, Porto Portugal; Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA; The Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture, South Bend, IN; Filter Space, Chicago; Perspective Gallery, Evanston, Il; The Rebekka Jacob Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina; the Minneapolis Photography Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Vermont Center for Photography, Battleboro, VT; The LightBox Gallery, Eugene Oregon; Tethys Gallery, Firenze, Italy: and MART, Rovereto, Italy. Her works are in public and private collections in the United States and Europe including The Fratelli Aliniari Archive, Florence Italy. She received many awards and participated in many collective and individual exhibitions.

Augusto Lemos was born and lives in Porto. With a PhD from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, ​​he was a professor at the Escola Superior de Educação of the Polytechnic of Porto between the academic year 1994-1995 and 2021, having worked in the areas of Photography and Heritage.

He exhibits his work regularly for decades, on individual and collective exhibitions. The solo exhibitions of this millennium are:Viagem à Beira Alta (Galeria Imago Lucis, 2001); Cartas Transmontanas (Monastery of Tibães, 2002); Antre Tejo & Odiana (D. Manuel Palace, 2004); Pela Beira (2005); The Vespa: a game of distances and light (Biennial of Vila France de Xira, 2005); Um Porto de Nível (Casa do Infante, 2007); Imagens anunciadas (Portuguese Center of Photography, 2008); 8 hours before (Quase Galeria, 2015; In a connection between Gil Vicente and the Marquês de Pombal (Palace of the Arts, 2015); Bloody Landscapes (Portuguese Photography Center, 2018); O meu Caminho (ESE/IPP, 2020); Marina Bay Sands Skypark Observation Deck (Restaurante Terra Nova, 2021); Vamos a la Playa (Casa da Cultura de Avintes, 2022) and I Love My Bicycle (Museum Soares dos Reis, 2022).

He has published articles on the following topics: History of Photography (19th century); Camino de Santiago and Alminhas. He is co-curator of the stenopeic collective “Imagens Periféricas” integrated in Mira Pinhole Photography. He is the author of the photography books “Vamos a la playa”, “The traveler's landscapes” and co-author of “The Sign and the Landscape”. He is represented in numerous publications.

Sukru Mehmet Omur is an ENT surgeon who now works as a full-time mobile photographer and artist. He also writes about photography and wine. Originally from Turkey, he lives in Paris. He graduated from the CE3P imaging school in Paris and, to date, his mobile work has been featured in Paris, Indianapolis, Florence and Istanbul. Mehmet runs several mobile art and photography groups and pages on Facebook; his book dedicated to iPhone photography was published in 2018. He has already won several mobile photography / art awards such as the IPPA, MPA and the MIRA Mobile Prize.

Armineh was born in Paris, grew up in Tehran and Boston, with a little over 2 years of residence in Lisbon. She is a photographer now based in Los Angeles, capturing moments since 2009. She is an early mover in the iphoneography movement. It works with iPhone 11 ProMax, Nikon F3/T and Sony ILCE-6000 cameras.

She won several prizes and distinctions for her work, which has been exhibited in several countries: she was invited by iNstantes for a solo exhibition in Avintes, Portugal(2021); Best in Show award at the Forced Captivity exhibition organized by the New Era Museum (2017); best photo of the year award at the Lumiere Photography Awards (2016); curates two facebook groups for the New Era Museum (NEM Hipstamatic and NEM Street); awarded as one of the 15 best photographers in the 7th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron competition aimed at female photographers (2015).

Himanshu Roy, is a talented street photographer from Surat, India, who in recent years has won recognition and several awards for his work. As a self-taught photographer, he continually seeks to push the boundaries of his craft.

Through his lens, Roy captures captivating portraits while also showing the character and charm of India's streets. He deftly freezes moments of joy and emotion, like children diving into rivers, adding vibrancy and liveliness to his photographs. His ability to capture the essence of street life around him adds depth and tonal quality to his predominantly color images. Roy's work is a celebration of the beauty found in everyday life. His ability to capture fleeting moments and turn them into art has made him one of the most acclaimed photographers locally in India and internationally.

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