Update: $1,300 in prizes from G-Technology secured for the winner and two runners-up and award-winning photojournalist and mobile photographer Benjamin Lowy joins the judging panel to help select the winners. Full details available here.
Head On Photo Festival in partnership with Mobile Photo Network (MPN) is inviting photographers from all around the world to submit mobile phone photographs on the theme of Backyard.
What’s in your backyard? A place to relax, to plant and grow, to play, to toil; pleasure, leisure, hobby, home; local sights and the best-kept neighbourhood secrets; on your doorstop, just outside, round the corner, right in your backyard.
Mobile photography has enabled us to share our once private homes and backyards with the rest of the world. Through connected technology and social media we can now invite people to come over, to join us, to see how we live.
The exhibition will be held in the Superintendent’s Residence, located in the sprawling grounds of Centennial Park – Sydney’s shared backyard.
The theme is open to interpretation. Photographers can submit up to five photos for consideration. Judges will be looking for both strong individual images and sets of photos related to the theme. Thirty photographs will be chosen for the exhibition.
Submissions will be judges by a panel of photographers and curators including:
- Head On Photo Festival Director Moshe Rosenzveig
- MPN founders and mobile photographers Oliver Lang and Misho Baranovic
- Sydney-based fine art photographer Garry Trinh.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions are only accepted via our online submission form on this page. There is a one-off entry fee of $10 for up to five photos. All funds raised will be used to cover printing costs for the show.
Terms and Conditions
Please read the TERMS AND CONDITIONS prior to entering the open call.
Who can enter?
Entry is open to all photographers from anywhere in the world. The Jury will be looking for high quality work that fits directly or imaginatively into the Backyard theme. Photos must be taken on a mobile device (smartphone, smart camera or tablet).
How many images can I submit?
You may make only one entry proposal to the open call with up to 5 images to be considered as a sequence or individually.
Successful entries
MPN and Head On will notify successful entries by email on May 1st with information regarding what to do next. Successful applicants will have their work exhibited at the Superintendents Residence venue as part of Head On Festival. The show will run from the 17 May to 23 June, 2013. Unfortunately we cannot contact all unsuccessful candidates directly
MPN and Head On will cover printing and mount costs for the display of selected photographs. The installation of photographs will be conducted by MPN and Head On.
Digital File Guidelines
- File Type: JPEG
- Full resolution photos. Please do not upscale images
- Images must be taken with mobile device
Payment
When you have completed the form, uploaded your files and confirmed that you agree to the terms and conditions you will be able to proceed to make payment via Paypal*. All submissions cost $10. Once you have completed your payment you will be sent a confirmation email. *If you are unable to make the payment via Paypal please contact us at mobilephotonetwork@gmail.com
Note* It is recommended that this form is submitted from a computer/laptop rather than a mobile device. If you are using a mobile device the upload may take up to 10 minutes so please be patient.
The submissions are now closed. We are currently judging the submissions and will contact the selected photographers shortly.