2021 EDITION

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.

Carla Fragata graduated in Social Communication from ISCP. After Words, Photography. She took the course at Ar.co. Then Graphic and Web Design. She did theater and won a national theater script competition. She has been a journalist for national and international media; photographer; editorial coordinator. She has taught professional and university teaching: dramatic expression, photography, creative writing, and film. She held exhibitions and curated: Mafra National Palace, Casa da Imprensa, Coruchéus Library, Camões Institute (Edinburgh). She was part of the National Commission for the conversion of training contents of the Professional Photography Course into Certified Training Units. She teaches Vocational and Adult Education and is Pedagogical Coordinator at the Portuguese Institute of Photography in Lisbon. She continues to develop works in the field of Portrait and Creative 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).