2025 Edition

Gina Costa is an art historian, museologist and independent curator based in Chicago. She was one of the pioneers to adopt mobile photography, but continued to use film, digital and Polaroid in her work. She is an award-winning and published photographic artist with work in public and private collections. Gina Costa has exhibited throughout Europe and the United States.

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.

https://ginacosta.com/

Joanne Carter is the creator of the world's most popular mobile art and photography website — TheAppWhisperer.com: an essential cyberspace for mobile artists.

Promoting mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today's art world has become the focus of his life. She has given conferences to promote mobile photography and its artists, among others, at the Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea and at Focus on Imaging in the United Kingdom. She has participated as a jury in competitions in several countries: Portugal, Canada, USA, South Korea, United Kingdom and Italy and has participated in important events in Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil and London.

Pioneered the world's first online mobile art gallery – TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com – Specializing in prints for limited edition, exclusive and never-before-seen art collectors. His freelance photographic journalistic work is widely recognized having published in the UK and USA: The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and, most recently, for the BBC as a contributor, columnist for Vogue Italia and contributing editor for LensCulture.

His professional photography has been widely exhibited in Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. She is currently producing books related to mobile photography.

joanne@theappwhisperer.com

https://theappwhisperer.com

Giulia Baita has a degree in Art History, is a teacher and artist. From 2015 to 2019 she participated in numerous international exhibitions such as “Light Impression” (Miami), “MIRA Mobile Prize” (Porto), “mDAC 2017” (Palo Alto).

Some of her videos (using the iPhone) were selected by festivals such as MoMo Festival, International Mobile Film Festival, Woman’s Mobile Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival. In 2016 she collaborated with jazz composer Marco Testoni to create three music videos for the projects “Impossible Humans” and “Ah!”.

In 2017 she founded MAG Mobile ArtGroup, a group of artists that aims to promote Mobile Art as a contemporary art form.

She collaborated with the magazine “ONLY Mobile Art” (NYC). She has been a member of juries for several competitions such as the MIRA Mobile Prize (Porto); MDAC 2021 (Palo Alto, California), and Mobgraphia (Brazil). In 2018, she organized her first exhibition as a curator in Cagliari (Italy), where she presented mobile artists from around the world. Three more followed in Sardinia and Milan.

Meanwhile, she has developed her artistic practice in solo and group exhibitions: “Talk with me” in Genoa (2021) at the “Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence”. She exhibited in 2021 and 2022 in Milan and Fuerteventura. In 2022 she participated in the “Roots” exhibition in NYC at Arte Azulejo Gallery and in Milan at MAEC Gallery with the exhibition “I have a dream”.

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 founded the “The New Era Museum”, the first museum dedicated to mobile photography as a tool for improving reality and build a new era.

He is also founder and president of FIPA – Florence International Photography Awards. His latest project is called Impossible Humans. In addition, Bigiarini curates several photo galleries such as Impossible Humans and The Most Wanted Visionaries Catalog. He has organized, in iconic buildings in Florence and Rome, immersive exhibition experiences featuring the musical performance of Marco Testoni.

https://www.andreabigiarini.com

João da Madeira (1961). He attended the photography studio at the St. John of Madeira Art Center, 1988/1991, under the guidance of Professor Aníbal Lemos, where he obtained training in the areas of black and white photographic films processing, diapositors and photographic printing (chemistry). Subsequently, he experienced several workshops in the area of ​​black and white photographic image printing, some of which are protected by the Portuguese Center for Photography, as well as the “La Chambre Noir” lab in Paris, under the guidance of Guillaume Genes. Your photographic work (analog and digital) has been disclosed through various individual and collective exhibitions.

https://cargocollective.com/ruiapolinario/