2019 EDITION

Brendan Ó Sé is an award-winning artist photographer and iPhone photographer. He was awarded iPhone Photographer of the Year in 2017. He is from Cork, Ireland. Brendan was part of the Apple World Gallery with images captured on the iPhone 6 in 2015. His photography has been featured on billboards and posters around the world. In addition to winning several awards in international competitions, he is invited to speak and exhibit his work around the world. His iPhone photography workshops in Ireland are extremely popular, although he has run workshops in Cyprus, Iceland, Thailand, Malaysia, Jakarta and Bali and Hong Kong. Using the iPhone, he tries to see and create in unusual ways, resulting in unique and stunning street photography.

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 has won several awards 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); she 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).

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.

Lara Jacinto is a photographer, lives and works in Porto. She graduated in multimedia design and photography. She mainly develops documentary photography projects. A freelance photojournalist, she regularly collaborates with the Portuguese and foreign press (Público, Monocle, der Zeit, Wall Street Jornal …). He has work published in Architectural Review, CNN, Spiegel, Lens Culture, C 41 magazine, Aint-Bad Magazine, Vice Italy and many others. He collaborates with several institutions: Volkswagen, C3 Creative Code and Content GmbH, LightBox, Parachute, Made UK …Assumes communication direction for Skrei arq. He has developed individual and collective projects. He has exhibited several times in Portugal and abroad.

Photographer, poet, blogger and podcaster. Born in Mexico City, Contreras is self-taught in the field of photography. She participated in group exhibitions in Monterrey, Tijuana, Milan, Italy, Paris, Porto, Portugal and also individually at the Pantitlán metro station in Mexico City, at the Digital Library of the Government of the State of Mexico and at the Aliac Cultural Center. She is part of the New Era Museum, a group made up of photographers and artists from around the world. She is curator of the group NEM Black & White. His photography is a discourse of light, sustained by contrast and shadow. His works are always critical of the world, irreverent in moral terms and provocative at heart.