2026 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 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

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”.

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

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Christian Barroso is a photographer, interested in street photography, exploring everyday scenes. It was awarded first place at the Mobile Photo Festival, promoted by Mobgraphia, in the Documentary category. Participated in editions of MIRA – Mobile Photography Awards, with works selected for exhibition. He also received first place in the XXVII National Photographic Art Salon of the Foto Clube de Londrina, among other classifications in competitions in Brazil and abroad. One of his photographs was featured in a publication by the British newspaper The Guardian, which presented the image as an example of photography taken with a cell phone, addressing the context in which it was captured.

Tânia Dinis, 1983. Masters in Contemporary Artistic Practices FBAUP, 2015. Her work crosses different perspectives and artistic fields, such as photography, performance, cinema or relational aesthetics, starting from images from family archives and other records of images of reality. Highlights in her films, Lurdes 2021, Incentive award at FUSO, They are not favas, they are feijocas 2013, awarded at several film festivals, Laura 2017 award for best short film at Arquivo em Cartaz – International Archive Film Festival and Armindo and the Dark Chamber. Director selected at SANGUE NOVO 22nd – Santa Maria da Feira Luso-Brazilian Film Festival, 2019. Artist selected for ARTIST IN THE CENTER 2020/2021 by Oficina – Guimarães. She was one of the winners of the Summer Labs Open Call at GNRATION. He was part of several group exhibitions. Artistic residency 2020/2021 at Solar Galeria de Arte Cinemática de Vila do Conde. It is represented in the contemporary art collection of the Municipality of Porto.