This event has been held since 2007 , with growth in participation and recognition in line with the increase in the smartphone market. Hence, every year the photos that participate in this contest multiply, in which snapshots arrive from more than 140 different countries.
In the 2018 winners selection, thousands of photographers from around the world submitted their iPhone captures to the annual iPhone Photography Awards competition.
Documentary photographer Jashim Salam from Bangladesh won the grand prize for his entry entitled ‘Displaced’. The photo, taken with an iPhone 7, showed “Rohingya children watching a health and sanitation awareness film near Tangkhali refugee camp in Ukhiya,” Salam said. Other winners include Alexandre Weber from Switzerland for his yellow and blue ‘Baiana’ image (photo taken with an iPhone 6S) – Weber explains that the bright and colorful shot was taken “spontaneously after a truck passed by” -; Huapeng Zhao from China for his photo entry for ‘Eye to Eye’ or Zarni Myo Winner from Myanmar for his I Want to Play image.
The categories of the mobile photo contest cover Abstract, Animals, Architecture, Children, Floral, Landscape, Lifestyle, Nature, News-Events, Panorama, People, Portrait, Series, Still life, Sunset, Travel and Trees.
Positions 1, 2 and 3 in the 18 categories were awarded to photographers representing many countries around the world, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Ecuador, Finland, France, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon , Myanmar, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Syria, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
“ IPhone users have become very fluent in visual storytelling. This year’s photos were technically impressive and many of them were very personal,” said IPPAWARDS founder Kenan Aktulun.
It is no secret that the iPhone is capable of taking impressive photos and, some as we see, may be worthy of awards.
Launched shortly after the first iPhone was released, IPPAWARDS is the longest running first iPhone contest in the world. All images must be taken using an iPhone or iPad, but cannot be posted anywhere other than personal social media accounts. Among the standards, they cannot be modified using software such as Photoshop, but it is possible to use mobile photo retouching apps or hardware accessories when taking snapshots, such as mini lenses and lenses.
