{"id":37275,"date":"2015-06-25T18:12:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T22:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ippawards.com\/?p=37275"},"modified":"2017-07-11T00:51:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:51:35","slug":"newsweek-meaningful-moments-captured-on-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ippawards.com\/newsweek-meaningful-moments-captured-on-iphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek – Meaningful Moments, Captured on iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meaningful Moments, Captured on iPhones, Become Award-Winning Photographs<\/h1>\n

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Michal Koralewski – 1st Place, Photographer of the Year<\/p><\/div>\n

An accordionist playing traditional Polish songs in a market square in Warsaw. \u201cHis face was the first thing I noticed,\u201d photographer Micha\u0142 Koralewski said, \u201cso expressive and beautiful in its own way. It was like an open book. You could almost read his life story from the wrinkles.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0MICHA\u0141 KORALEWSKI\/IPPA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dozens of amateurs and professionals became award-winning photographers this week for images they snapped on their iPhones, iPods or iPads. The eighth annual iPhone Photography Awards named three photographers of the year\u2014Micha\u0142 Koralewski of Poland in first place, David Craik of the U.K. in second and Yvonne Lu of the U.S. in third\u2014and three winners in each of 19 categories, such as portraiture, travel, animals, seasons and food.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s entries were especially impressive, ranging from intimate, thought-provoking moments to stunning, captivating imagery,\u201d IPPAWARDS creator Kenan Aktulun said in a press release sent to\u00a0Newsweek<\/em>. The winners \u201conce again showed the ability of the iPhone to take astonishing photographs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"6-19-15<\/span>Jos\u00e9 Luis, an architect living in Valencia, Spain, won first place in the “Others” category for this image.\u00a0<\/span>JOS\u00c9 LUIS SAEZ MARTINEZ\/IPPA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Aktulun, a designer, photographer and creative director, founded the competition soon after the first-generation iPhone came out, he told\u00a0Newsweek\u00a0<\/em>after this year\u2019s results were announced. He began taking photos with the phone as a hobby and quickly realized that though the early technology didn\u2019t necessarily make for the most technically strong images, the phones allowed people to capture meaningful moments spontaneously.<\/p>\n

\u201cI shoot mostly street scenes and portraits, trying to capture intimate moments, the kind that\u00a0carry a lot of emotions,\u201d said Dina Alfasi of Tel Aviv, whose photo won third place in the portrait category this year. \u201cLove, pain, fear, joy\u2014no matter what emotion, as long as whoever looks at the picture will truly feel something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aktulun declined to disclose the precise number of submissions to the competition,\u00a0but said that\u00a0they were in the thousands this year and that the number of photos entered roughly doubled from a year ago. Submissions came from more than 120 countries this year, including the U.S., the U.K., Australia, China, South Africa, Egypt, Kuwait, Germany, Taiwan and Ecuador. Many of those who participate are photographers and other creatives by profession, but the competition also draws hobbyists\u2014a neuroscientist, an aerospace engineer, a pediatrician and an insurance company employee\u2014who have been drawn to photography outside of work.<\/p>\n

\"6-19-15<\/span>A photo captured at the Chicago Air and Water Show by Jesse Alkire, a freelance writer and art director, won first place in the “News\/Events” category.\u00a0<\/span>JESSE ALKIRE\/IPPA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year I look at the photos submitted, and they\u2019re getting more personal,\u201d Aktulun said. \u201cPeople are more comfortable with it,\u201d with smartphones becoming more ubiquitous throughout the world. Not only has the technology improved since the iPhone was first released in 2007, but \u201cthe quality of images in terms of composition frame and kind of lighting of subject, or the pictures they\u2019re taking is much, much better.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are less focused on using a lot of filters\u201d and more on what it is they\u2019re trying to capture, Aktulun said.<\/p>\n

The panel of unidentified judges generally includes professional photographers, creative directors, publishers and media buyers. This year\u2019s group of 12 judges also included a design professor and two architects.<\/p>\n

Chris Belcina, a nurse from Cooper City, Florida, whose photo of Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado took first place in the landscape category, said iPhone photography \u201chas taught me to find my own style and helped me think creatively, turning ordinary moments into magical ones, capturing details that we often take for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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