2025 B&W EDITION

Armineh Hovanesian, born in Paris, raised in Tehran and Boston, with just over two years of hiatus in Lisbon, Armineh is a photographer who now lives in Los Angeles, capturing moments of life since 2009. She is one of the first members of the iphoneography movement. He had no professional training and is self-taught, but his vision has been the driving force behind his creations. His weapons of choice are the iPhone, Nikon F3/T, Sony ILCE-5000 and Minolta XD11 cameras. He won several photography awards and participated in several exhibitions with his work.

Nelson Marmelo is a specialist doctor / Medical Imaging, (Former Assistant Étranger des Hôpitaux de Paris). He has long dedicated himself to photography and visual arts. He has a master's degree in artistic photography from IPCI and attended workshops with Juan Fontcuberta, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Javier Vallonrat and David Jiménez. He exhibited individually in Porto, Paris and Arles (Voies Off) and participated in several group exhibitions. He participated in the 3rd and 4th Gaia International Art Biennial and the Bienal d’ArtVEZ and also in Involuntary Mexico (CDMX, Mexico) and Wall Community (Hungary). He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Diafragma Festival, Covilhã | International Photo Festival.

Marco Prado is a self-taught photographer, driven by the desire to capture images with feeling. With a background in industrial design, he worked in international trade. He later explored new avenues in mind-body therapy, combining emotional depth with visual storytelling. Attracted by travel and street photography in the early 2000s, he explored mobile photography using applications to refine texture, color and meaning. The evolution of his work leads him to transform street scenes into intuitive and complex pieces that reflect the complexity of the human experience. It has received several awards, having won the MIRA Mobile Prize 2023.

SUKRU MEHMET OMUR is an ENT surgeon who currently works full-time as a mobile photographer and artist. He also writes about photography and wine. Originally from Türkiye, he lives in Paris. He graduated from the CE3P imaging school in Paris and, to date, his mobile photography work has been presented in Paris, Indianapolis, Florence and Istanbul. Mehmet manages several mobile art and photography groups and pages on social media. Among other publications, a book dedicated to photography using an iPhone was published in 2018. It has already won several mobile photography awards, such as, for example, the IPPA, MPA and the MIRA Mobile Prize.