Grand Prize Winner: Glenn Homann
These are the 20 photos that won the 12th Annual Mobile Photography Awards (MPA). The Mobile Photography Awards were established in 2011 to acknowledge and honor the skills and visual artistry of mobile photography and art communities.
This year's competition
Judges of the prestigious annual competition, which is in its 12th year, said that the most recent captivating images submitted were among the best that they had ever seen.
The festivalâs latest offering comes from its longtime collaborators Suspended Gravity, a movement group featuring some of Nashvilleâs finest who incorporate elements of the circus in their performances.
In the Eye features five new works that were filmed around Nashville. Each work strikes a different tone â while Patrick Gunâs corde lisse performance takes place in an intimate bedroom, we find Michael West Jr. suspended from aerial silks in a wide-open field. These settings are fitting backgrounds for the varied emotional journeys that play out through dance. The performers communicate longing, anxiety and boredom â as well as joy and triumph. Itâs a fitting tribute to a year that will soon be in the rearview mirror.