2018 EDITION

Amílcar Correia has been the executive editor of PÚBLICO since October 2016. He has been a journalist since 1990 and was deputy director of the same newspaper. Amílcar Correia was part of several editorial boards and editor of the Society, Local and weekly section Cidades. In 2011 he founded the P3, a site that won several awards. He has a degree in Communication Sciences. In 2007 he published the book “The ballad of Niger — and other stories from Africa”.

Andrea Bigiarini lives in Florence, Italy, where he was born in 1956. Since he was a child he has developed a fascination for painting, graphic design, music and photography. In 2012 he ended up founding the The New Era Museum, the first museum dedicated to mobile photography, as a tool for improving reality and building a new era. He is also founder and president of SNAP – Florence International Photography Awards. Your latest project is called Impossible Humans. In addition, Bigiarini is the curator of several photogalleries, such as Impossible Humans e The Most Wanted Visionaries Catalog. https://www.andreabigiarini.com

Cadu Lemos is a visual artist and photographer, standing out mainly in the area of ​​photography with mobile devices. He founded mObgraphia Cultura Visual, a producer of photography and video events in 2013 and, later, the Festival e Prêmio Latino Americano de Mobgrafia and the mOb Film Festival, both related to photography and videos captured and edited on mobile devices, called mobgraphy in Brazil. The photographer has published two photography books, one dedicated to Paris and the other about mobile photography. In addition, he also uses photography as a way of integrating his work as a consultant for high performance teams and producer of cultural events.

Gina Costa is a photographer, independent curator and museography professional. Her photographs are held in private collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the oldest and most prestigious archive of photography, The Alinari Archive, Firenze, Italy. She was awarded in 2019 and 2018 with the Julia Margaret Cameron Award. Costa has a degree in Art History from the University of Chicago. She has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago; she taught Art History at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Rochester, New York. Costa has written for numerous publications, including Art Narratives, Collezione Maramotti and the Catalog of Photography Europe.

Giulia Baita lives on a beautiful island in the Mediterranean called Sardinia. She has a degree in History of Contemporary Art and is passionate about painting and drawing. She is an Italian and History teacher at an Art School. She has participated in several competitions and exhibitions, such as the MIRA Mobile Prize, Light Impressions, The Mobile Art Academy, MoMo Festival, International Mobile Film Festival, Women’s Mobile FilmFestival, Los Angels Film Festival. She founded the MAG MobileArtGroup on Facebook and the MAG page on Instagram. MAG intends to stimulate and promote mobile art as a new form of contemporary art. Organized three exhibitions with mobile artists from all over the world in order to promote mobile art. In December 2018 she produced her first exhibition called “Children of the digital age”. It also organized the exhibitions “The Beauty of Myth” and “All the colors of the world”.

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