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2020 EDITION

Jury B&W 2020

Sukru Mehmet Omur

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.

José Carlos Amoroso

José Carlos Amoroso was born in Porto in 1951. A photography enthusiast since his adolescence, member of the Porto Photographic Association in the 1970s. “Photographic Salons” participated in several group exhibitions. He has been awarded several times. Photojournalist in the early 70s at the newspaper A Opinião. He was a photojournalist at the newspaper “The diary”, 1976. He had several works published in Fotojornal and Nova Imagem magazine. Selected to be part of the collective exhibition “Portuguese Photography – 1970/80 in 1984 (Secretariat of State for Culture).

Frederic Deschenes

Frédéric Deschênes is a French Canadian photographer and reporter-camera operator-editor with 20 years of experience. He works for CBC / Société Radio-Canada, the Canadian National Television. He has participated in several international exhibitions in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Ireland, England and the USA. He has won numerous awards, including The New Era Museum's IMPOSSIBLE HUMANS Award for the MAJE exhibition – Mobile Art-Jazz Experience in Italy, 2018. His versatility and passion for photography and especially for mobile photography, lead him to continue to discover new horizons.

Claudia Contreras

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.

Armineh Hovanesian

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).