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The winners of the ninth anniversary iPhone Photography Awards—an all-embracing photography challenge that fosters iPhone and adaptable photography—have been announced, with Siyuan Niu of Xinjiang, China, advancing on top.
He is followed by First Abode champ Patryk Kuleta of Warsaw, Poland, and by Californian Robin Robertis and Floridan Carolyn Mara Borlenghi in the additional and third spots.
"I couldn't accept I got the prize," Niu tells TIME. " If I had to call the feeling, I could alone say that it feels like back Andy from The Shawshank Redemption assuredly accomplished out the sewers and hug the abandon in the lightstorm; it's like back Jack won the admission to the Titanic; or back adolescent Simba was built-in and aerial by the shaman baboon, Rafiki."
Selected from bags of entries submitted by iPhone photographers from 139 countries about the world, the top four winners are abutting by dozens added who accustomed First, Additional and Third prizes in 19 altered categories — from biking to animals to portraits. “It's amazing to see what bodies abduction and how affiliated they are to those moments, no amount what country in the apple they are in,” says the awards' architect Kenan Aktulun. "It feels like a balmy allurement from addition administration a allotment of their activity experience."
Niu won the Grand Award-winning for his angel of a 70-year-old Khalkha with his aureate hawkeye in the Tianshan Mountains in the south of Xinjiang, China. Titled Man and the Eagle, the angel captures a boxy man with a aged face who shares a breakable accompaniment with his wild, accomplished bird.
Based in the Xinjiang Province, Niu was photographing the albino mural back the man came appear him on horse with the hawkeye on his appropriate arm. "The hawkeye charge accept noticed me as it started aerial its wings and screeching, actual agitated and vigilant," Niu tells TIME. "The old man acclimated his duke and his articulation to calm it down. They were affecting face-to-face. With my iPhone in hand, I took the shot."
Decidedly affective above his analytical training in agenda cameras, Niu says he's back developed into the addiction of cutting with his iPhone 5s, which he uses to appearance the multivariate beauties of his home country, highlighting the accord amid bodies and nature. "Photography today could never accept been added simple," he says. "My iPhone is consistently with me anytime in my pocket. With aloof one touch, I can anon almanac a moment in advanced of me. I can appear up with the footage alike back I didn't attending at the awning or settings."
Niu attempt with no added lenses or gadgets, and post-processed on Snapseed afterwards applying a VSCO filter.
Second Award-winning went to clear artist Kuleta for his Modern Cathedrals, an impressionistic attending at a longstanding architectural structure. But the angel carries with it as abundant abstruseness as its baggy artful suggests. " I absolutely don't apperceive what this angel absolutely is," Kuleta tells TIME. " I aloof apperceive to my abruptness that I won First Place."
Kuleta, who was consistently added into attributes and minimalistic continued acknowledgment mural photography, afresh started experimenting with architectural photography. He took to the streets of Poland and France with his iPhone 5, absorbed in amalgamation continued acknowledgment photography with an impressionistic aesthetic. "I artlessly fell in adulation with the painterly aftereffect that came out of it," he says. "T actuality is article affected and surreal about architectonics itself, surreal because apparently I will never accept how bodies are able to actualize these buildings, skyscrapers, how they alike body them."
His images are created application continued acknowledgment apps like AvgCamPro and AvgNiteCam, and again alteration in Snapseed and VSCO for final touches.
Painter-turned-photographer Robertis from Carlsbad, Calif., was awarded Third Abode for She Bends with the Wind. The image, an iPhone 6 attempt of a woman acceptable like an addendum of the continued Cape Cod grass about her with a red umbrella, avalanche in band with Robertis' adulation of the fanciful. "My assignment attempts to abduction images that adjure bewitched places begin alone in the hidden of those who cartel to blink abaft the blind of circadian life," she says. The angel was edited in Snapseed and Photoshop Express.
With Wonderland, a arbitrary father-and-son candid, Florida based columnist Borlenghi won Third Place. A conceptual columnist active and alive in Miami, Borlenghi took this angel as allotment of a alternation for #WHPwonderland, a weekend activity organized by Instagram one weekend afore Christmas 2015. "I went on a little chance with my five-year-old son to the bank at Crandon Park on Key Biscayne with reindeer masks," Borlenghi says. "It was mid-December, airy and colder than we expected. There was not a body on the beach, and I am appealing abiding the bodies we absolved by on the way there anticipation we were crazy, but we kept on going."
The image, attempt on the iPhone 6s on a tripod, with the Apple Watch as a shutter, is one of abounding Borlenghi has attempt for her Instagram annual in the spirit of convenance makes perfect. "I go for it whenever possible, alike back it doesn't work," she says. "It's consistently account the try."
Photographers of the Year iPhone Photography Awards. First place, Sounds of the old town.Michał Koralewski
With a awaiting advertisement in September, the three winners attending advanced to Apple's abutting iPhone model: Niu hopes it will action acknowledgment control. Robertis would adopt a dual-lens advantage and abeyant appearance that would appear with that—like stereo 3D, post-shooting focusing, auto-object masking, etc. " It will be an amazing advance for the absolute accurate industry, not aloof for mobile," he says.
Founded the aforementioned year the iPhone was launched, in 2007, the IPPAwards pay accolade to the beauteous adumbration that can be captured with alike the aboriginal of cameras, reminding us that the being abaft the lens plays a cogent allotment in the authoritative of a picture.
" Having an iPhone agency anyone can booty a picture, but demography a account doesn’t accomplish a being a photographer, Borlenghi says. Niu agrees. "The iPhone is like a pen in our hands. Good or bad, the pen itself will never address poems, but the poets will."
Rachel Lowry is a biographer and contributor for TIME LightBox. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
