Our surroundings are full of visually interesting buildings, structures, designs and patterns from the countryside to the city.
Read More

In the digital era, photographers are no longer limited by darkroom costs or film choice and the allure of Black & White is as strong as ever.
Read More

This category is for manipulated and altered images using additional elements like textures, multiple exposures, and app effects to create an image from the imagination of the artist.
Read More

In many ways, landscapes are the most difficult kind of photos to produce with a mobile phone camera. Most landscape shots taken with a DSLR have the advantage… Read More

When you magnify a subject, you bring your viewers into a world impossible to witness with the naked eye.
Read More

The People category is always the busiest in the MPA because it’s about everybody’s favorite subject: our species!
Read More

The simplest definition is that portraits are artistic representations of the likeness of person.
Read More

Think shadows, mystery, low key exposures, night shots, deep, rich, dark colours and misty, cryptic Black and Whites.
Read More

Travel photography is about conveying through images an area’s landscape, people, cultures, customs, architecture and history.
Read More

Silhouettes create such powerful images, due to the simple isolation of subject. They remove all distractions and all you see is the a perfectly sharp black outline against a beautiful background.
Read More

A mobile phone is perhaps the perfect tool for the street photographer unobtrusive, light, and relatively simple to use.
Read More

Water, in all it’s forms, is an endlessly inspiring photographic subject.
Read More

The Photo Essay category is a sub-component of the MPA and awards it’s own prize of $500 separate from all other categories.
Read More