2019 EDITION

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

Daniel Berman is a filmmaker, television producer/director and photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Since 1995 Berman has produced/directed over 300 award-winning hours of documentary and music television broadcasts, aired in dozens of countries around the world. He is also the founder of the Mobile Photography Awards, the world's largest traveling exhibition and competition for mobile photography and art. He is closely linked to the emergence of mobile photography, since its inception. He has produced nearly 30 exhibitions from New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco to Milan, Cyprus and Toronto. He has given numerous conferences on mobile creativity from the San Francisco Fine Arts Fair to the groundbreaking RTE 2015 conference (Ireland) on the rise of mobile journalism.

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”.

Created by Joanne Carter, a professional journalist and photographer, TheAppWhisperer is the most popular mobile photography website in the world. With a team of over twenty editors, TheAppWhisperer has built a global reputation by recognizing and curating the very best in mobile photography. TheAppWhisperer has become the reference for the art press, manufacturers, photography magazines and specialized websites. It represents the pinnacle of photography and mobile art and continues to grow at an extraordinary rate, every day. www.theappwhisperer.com

Luís Octávio Costa is 44 years old and studied Linguistics in Lisbon and graduated in Journalism from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. He interned at the newspaper Público, where he still works. He covered multiple sports competitions around the world until 2010. From then on, he dedicated himself to a new project and helped found P3, a website that he edited until August 2017. In between, he created the P3 Instagram account (currently with 93k followers) , a reference on Instagram in Portugal. He is currently exploring the world for Fugas, a supplement to the newspaper Público. On Instagram, where he has lived since 2011, he signs @kitato and likes to turn the world upside down — or is the world the way it is already? He has already been suggested and highlighted by Instagram and in April 2015 he was chosen by the Huffington Post as one of the ten most creative Instagrammers in the world. He travels further and further — and further and further.