Mobile Photography Awards 2025

The Mobile Photography Awards is the longest-running international competition open exclusively to photographs shot & edited on all mobile phones and tablets.

The MPA Exhibits feature the winning images from the annual competition. They are chosen from thousands by a jury of photographic professionals, journalists, teachers, artists and leaders of the photography, mobile photography and art worlds.

The Mobile Photography Awards has awarded more than $50,000 directly to mobile photo artists.

The MPA serves as a platform for photographers who have adopted the “decisive moment” approach to mobile photography, providing them with a way to showcase their work and overcome the initial learning curve. The awards aim to highlight the impressive imagery being created with mobile devices and provide a venue for artists to share their vision.

Categories:

• Architecture & Design/Still Life: Our surroundings are full of visually interesting buildings, structures, designs and patterns from the countryside to the city.
• Black and White: In the digital era, photographers are no longer limited by darkroom costs or film choice, and the allure of Black & White is as strong as ever.
• Digital Fine Art / Visual FX: This category is for manipulated and altered images using additional elements like textures, multiple exposures, and app effects to create an image from the imagination of the artist.
• Landscapes & Wildlife: In many ways, landscapes are the most difficult kind of photos to produce with a mobile phone camera.
• Macro/Details: When you magnify a subject, you bring your viewers into a world impossible to witness with the naked eye.
• People: The People category is always the busiest in the MPA because it’s about everybody’s favourite subject: our species!
• PORTRAITS & SELF PORTRAITS: The simplest definition is that portraits are artistic representations of the likeness of a person.
• The Darkness: Think shadows, mystery, low-key exposures, night shots, deep, rich, dark colours and misty, cryptic Black and Whites.
• Travel & Transportation: Travel photography is about conveying through images an area’s landscape, people, cultures, customs, architecture and history.
• Silhouettes: Silhouettes create such powerful images due to the simple isolation of the subject. They remove all distractions, and all you see is a perfectly sharp black outline against a beautiful background.
• Street Photography: A mobile phone is perhaps the perfect tool for the street photographer, unobtrusive, light, and relatively simple to use.
• Water/Snow/Ice: Water, in all its forms, is an endlessly inspiring photographic subject.
• THE PHOTO ESSAY: The Photo Essay category is a sub-component of the MPA and awards its own prize of $500 separate from all other categories.

Entry Fees:

• $15 for 1 image
• $30 for 3 images
• $50 for 6 images
• $100 for 15 images
• $149 for 25 images.
• $29 for The Photo Essay