In the competition, where nearly 5 thousand applications were received from 54 countries, the winning works in 8 categories were introduced to photography lovers.

The jury of the competition, whose main sponsor was Türk Telekom, included international names such as National Geography photographers Ed Kashi and Michael Christopher Brown, as well as Turkey's important photographers Ahmet Sel, Gül Yıldız and Engin Güneysu.

Arkitera has featured the winners of the Turkey Mobile Photography Competition (TMPA) on its page. The winners selected within the scope of these prestigious awards presented valuable shots that impressed the jury by displaying the creativity and aesthetic power of mobile photography.

he two main characters in this image, the Russian photographer Olga Ivanova says, are her mother, Zinaida, and Ivanova’s seven-year-old daughter, Maria. Ivanova and her daughter were visiting Zinaida at her house in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, for her 62nd birthday when this photo was taken.

Having trained in rhythmic gymnastics since she was three, Maria was performing a routine for her grandmother, who was taking pictures on her phone and reading celebratory text messages from friends.

Conceptual photography is just like making paintings,” Dikye Ariani says. “You come up with an idea in your imagination and then you work to bring your visualisation to life.” One morning in the rainy season of 2022, Ariani drove from her home in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta to neighbouring Bogor for an early shoot. Waiting for her at Lake Tamansari were the five women pictured, local talent hired to take part as models. For the next four hours, Ariani dressed the women, positioned them and various elements in the warm water, and climbed up and down a ladder with her phone. She took about 100 photographs from different angles.

The word Ziaul Huque uses to describe the recent deadly violence against student protesters in his country of Bangladesh is “despicable”.

“In the end, the government could not survive by resorting to violence,” says Huque, who was once a university student himself. “History has repeatedly shown that no government can survive for long against a radical movement of students.” How quickly that political change can translate into solutions for the country’s many social and environmental problems remains to be seen, though.