Help Beat Cancer with Race For Life

We’re thrilled to announce our cooperation with Race for Life today. The largest women-only fundraising event in the UK, Race for Life gathers women of all ages to come together to walk, jog or run to help beat cancer.

We’ve built a Facebook app for Race for Life that embeds the slideshow of the album Race for Life directly on Facebook. That way participants can share their photos during the races on EyeEm while the whole event is live-streamed via Race for Life’s Facebook page.

Click here to find out how you can help. 

EyeEm for WinPhone is Here!

Hooray!

EyeEm is now available for Windows Phone, bringing creative photo-sharing to one of the most compelling mobile platforms out there. With its unique style and simplicity, the Windows Phone interface gives a whole new touch to EyeEm, making it a beautiful experience for WinPhone users worldwide to share their photos and join our community. Read more about it at our blog. 

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Photos and Sounds feat. PJ Harvey

Welcome to Photos & Sounds, a series on our blog that’s all about the fascination of listening to our photos. Every week we will handpick a new selection.

blackandwhite at Seattle by mellow longfellow on EyeEm  

Let’s listen to our photos and see our sounds. Slow down and see what story each photo tells. Thanks to The_Real_McCoy for curating this lovely selection. Check out more photos at our blog.

Challenges on EyeEm - “Diversity”

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Here are just a few of the fantastic submissions to our first weeks Challenges over on EyeEm. This week our theme is “Diversity”. Show us what this word means to you.
To participate just tag your image with the purple “AMPt -Diversity” tag.
We will select a winner from the submissions and feature it here on Sunday.

by Jen Pollack Bianco

by Miriam Weber

by Cedric Blanchon

by Marita

by wheway

by FByteflyer

by Erin Kathleen

by TheMinimals

by Guido

by Micel Ba

Don’t forget to add your photos everybody! Such a great initiative!

“Becoming a MoPho”: An Interview with Greg Schmigel

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By Anton Kawasaki

Sometimes people wonder how the whole mobile photography movement got to the point where it is today — where the iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr, where millions of people share mobile images online, and where over 10,000 apps for photography exist in the App Store. It’s hard to pinpoint its true origins, but it’s just as hard NOT to think of the “beginning” without mentioning the name Greg Schmigel.

Was Greg the very FIRST person to start regularly taking photos with an iPhone and with a more artistic eye? 

Probably not. 

But he was definitely the first person (that I know of) who created a website devoted strictly to photography using the device — and was probably the first person to start getting some attention for it. So for that reason, he is definitely considered one of the earliest pioneers of “iPhonoegrap…”, er…, ahem — “mobile photography,” I should rather say (see below).

Around the time I was watching Sion Fullana begin to first explore shooting street photography with his own iPhone, we both soon discovered that some guy in Maryland named Greg Schmigel already had a small online presence. We all eventually connected through the online photo-sharing website Flickr, and Schmeegs [as I affectionately call him] became one of our earliest mobile photography allies.
 


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We finally met Greg (and his beautiful wife, Suzy) during one of their many visits to New York City a few years ago, and we all became fast friends. But unlike with many other mobile photography buddies we’ve made over the years since, we’ve never done the traditional “photowalk” experience together. Instead, Greg will devote most of the time that he’s in the city to shooting just by himself (often with Suzy by his side, but sometimes not as she does her own thing). It’s not because he doesn’t want to hang out with friends, but because he’s SO focused and dedicated to his shooting that he can’t afford too many distractions (it’s certainly true — street photographers get their BEST shots when they’re alone). You can’t help but admire his dedication to his craft. In fact, he gets so passionate with his all-day photo taking, that he’ll sometimes wind up with literally thousands of new images in his camera roll by the end of a single night. 

Often Greg won’t even look at (or post-process) his photos until he gets back home to Maryland. It’s a much different approach to mobile photography than Sion and I, or most other mobile shooters that I know, who can’t help but check each photo as it’s taken, and sometimes process AND post a photo we like to an online photo sharing community (like Flickr or Instagram) within minutes. Schmigel keeps it “old school” and often waits — much like we ALL had to do when using film cameras back in the day. Using a mobile device is less about the instant sharing for him, and more about the convenience and ability for getting discreet and up-close shots.

Back in July of last year, Greg e-mailed Sion, myself, and nine other mobile shooters he admired to ask us if we were all interested in participating in an experimental cooperative that would be the mobile equivalent of the well known Magnum Photos group we all admired. We all agreed to join, and soon the Mobile Photo Group was born. We spent several weeks in the beginning going over how the group would work, what our goals would be, etc. We knew the group would have to be limited to a few members at first (despite knowing that would probably receive criticism — and it did), but we were already discussing how to slowly expand over the years. Eventually we decided to keep doing what we do best — take photos — and let whatever collaborations we had in mind grow organically.

While not necessarily the leader of MPG, I figured Greg would be a good person to ask some questions about the group that I felt might still be “hanging in the air.” And of course, I wanted to delve deeper into the mind of the man himself…

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This was a really insightful interview Anton! Nice work.

This is Spring!

  Spring is here!

The sun is shining, the weather is sweet.. and our office wall is alive with 50 beautiful photos you guys submitted to our spring challenge! It was a difficult task to choose from over 250 images that more than 100 people (!) submitted, but in the end we had to cut it down to 50 photos that fit our wall of fame.

What can we say: our office gets more and more lovely each and ever day and we’re more proud to have YOUR images surrounding us. These photographs just look so great when hanging on a wall and this little collage makes it once again clear why taking photos together is such a great and fun thing. A big THANK YOU goes out to all of you for taking part in this!

More photos at our blog.

Shoot the Sounds!


Hello friends,

when we launched Photos & Sound as a feature on our blog it was our goal to combine vision and sound in new and refreshing ways. That’s why we are more than excited to present you a little project with some sounds from the  SoundCloud community, an awesome community for sharing and recording sounds:

Shoot the Sounds There are three tracks that three SoundClouders offered to be visualized by us: Ben Carey from Sydney, George. from Paris and Silvertin from Leeds are providing one track each. All of the three have been awarded with the prestigious “Soundclouder of the Day” award and can’t wait to see how we shoot photos around their music! Your mission: get inspired by one of the 3 tracks and shoot one or more photos to it. Series of photos are welcome but single shots are great, too.

How to participate: tag each photo with Photos & Sound and add it to the album. Tell us which track (1,2 or 3) you were shooting for by commenting in the comments box of each photo.

Deadline: You have 1 week time to shoot. All photos should be in the album by next Monday, February 20. The most creative, compelling and hands down breathtaking series will be featured on our blog next week!

Click here to listen to the tracks.

EyeEm Advent Calendar! Day 2

To get in the holiday spirit, we’re going to have our very own EyeEm Advent Calender! Each day, we pick our favorite photo and feature it on the blog. On the 24th of December, we’ll make a life-size advent calender in the office! Here’s our pick for today:

We say:

All these wonderful balloons look like flying Christmas ornaments! This just puts us in a jolly good mood. But in all seriousness, we’re amazed at how simple, but powerful this image is. Thanks for sharing it with us! Nice one Diego Jock! What will the next photo be? Upload your images and we’ll pick another one tomorrow! Keep ‘em coming!

In 24h Around the World | Pt. 12

Are your bags already packed for this week’s trip around the world? krapoz was gracious enough to be our guide for this journey, so he handpicked these 24 photos that were shot by 24 people at 24 places in the past 24 hours for you. It’s sorted starting from Germany to end in Chile. Here’s what he says:

It’s been really great fun. Here is my worldwide imaginary trip, sorted starting from Germany to end in Chile..

Check out the rest of the photos here!

Hi, EyeEm Kevin Thornhill

Welcome to the latest edition of Hi, EyeEm featuring Kevin Thornhill. He’s born and raised in London and enjoys shooting life on the streets. Kevin is a firm believer that it’s more about the moment than the quality of the image and that it’s better to catch something rather than nothing at all. We had a little chat with him to learn more about his thoughts on mobile photography.

It’s the Middle of Movember!

How’s your Movember going? We think this cause is brilliant because it raises much needed funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men. Just in 2010 over 64,500 people all over the world got involved and raised $7.5 million USD. That’s well impressive! Even Stephen Fry approves.

We’d love to see how your progress is going! Just add your photos to our Movember album. Click here to see Team EyeEm’s progress! 

Source: blog.eyeem.com

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