M.mode Awards 2022
ARCHITECTURAL & INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
M.mode Award Winner 2022 - Hacer Bozkurt
NOW OPEN FOR ENTRY - CLOSING DATE DECEMBER 31st 2022
HOW TO ENTER
NO ENTRANCE FEES
Simply submit an entry on Instagram by tagging any images you'd like to submit with #mmodeawards2022
This year we have two categories
BEST INTERIOR PHOTO
BEST ARCHITECTURAL PHOTO
The Top 10 images in each category will be announced in early January 2023 and this is where our community will cast their votes by liking their favourite image.
The images with the most likes will be crowned the winner.
Finalist to be announced February 2023
GOOD LUCK
The M-mode community grew out of the first global lockdown in 2020 by founder Pete Helme. M.mode supports people from the interior & architectural photography community offering a platform to share their work, talk about their experiences, techniques and help each other. It has grown into an inspiring space for members to learn from each other’s experiences and workflow.
To date M.mode has interviewed over 50 of the best photographers from around the world, had over 120 takeovers and amassed nearly 7000 members in the first few years.
Now in its third year, The M.mode Award is a photography award a little different.
This year we have a panel of esteemed guest judges to decide their top ten images and these will then be put to the M.mode community for a vote to see who the winners is.
Essentially an award voted by your photographer peers.
Pete Helme (UK) - Founder & Curator of M.mode
Pete Helme is an energetic and passionate interior & architectural photographer based in the city of Bath, UK. He is highly experienced and loves nothing more than photographing for a wide variety of clients in the UK and abroad.
He shoots clean, crisp & moody imagery, using as much natural light at the core of his portfolio. He loves meeting new people who also share his passion for interior & architecture design and regularly works alongside design teams and stylists.
He is the founder and curator of M-mode Creative which is a co-operative of interior & architectural photographers from around the world.
His work has been featured in many publications including Living Etc, Homes & Gardens, Dezeen, Enki Magazine, Elle Decoration UK, Architects Journal, Conde Nast Traveller, Ideal Home, Grand Designs, RIBA Journal, House Beautiful and more.
2022 GUEST INTERNATIONAL JUDGES
Double Space (Canada)
Toronto architectural photographers Doublespace Photography = Amanda + Younes.
They make simple, bold and elegant architectural photography.
Their creative vision is the product of their combined experience and diametrically opposed backgrounds; Amanda is trained as an architect and worked in the field for five years, while Younes is a former biologist-turned-landscape-photographer.
Their work has appeared in some of the most prestigious print and online magazines such as Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Icon, Interior Design Magazine, Dwell, Canadian Architect, Wallpaper*, The Plan, Archdaily and Dezeen.
Doublespace were awarded the 2019 Canadian Architect Award for Excellence in Architecture Photography and the Jury and Popular vote A+ Awards in 2020.
Veeral Patel (Australia)
www.veeral.com.au
Veeral Patel is a Melbourne (Australia) based architectural & interiors photographer and filmmaker.
Coming from a software engineering background and having worked a number of global Fortune 100 companies, he was eventually bitten by the creative bug. That saw him quit his corporate career on a taxi ride to the airport to pursue photographing cycling in Europe and eventually finding his niche in architectural photography and filmmaking.
He is fascinated by the architectural narrative in how buildings are designed and constructed. Drawing inspiration from cinema and contemporary art, he strives to create ephemeral moments in both still and film representation of architecture.
Veeral also writes and contributes to our friends at @apalmanac
Paulina Ojeda (Mexico)
Paulina Ojeda is an architect by training and became a photographer along the way.
She has spent three years dedicating herself to architectural photography, documenting various types of projects throughout Mexico, Germany and Ecuador.
Her passion for understanding and analysing everyday life through photography, along with her passion for social issues has led her to document various projects and social processes.
She has recently been working in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences of Munich and the Ecuadorian Office of Atarraya Taller on ‘The Social Production’ process of the Design & Build workshop.
She has also worked on the project for The Santa Catarina Quiané community in Mexico, its Centre for Culture and Ecology.
Her work has recently been exhibited in the Architektur Museum in the Modern Art Gallery in Munich.
Jim Stephenson (UK)
Jim Stephenson is an architectural photographer and filmmaker based in the UK, working worldwide.
Stephenson’s work is hallmarked by a keen eye for human interaction with architecture and the built environment, be it the occupation of space or the traces left behind. His photography and films lean to a documentary style and he has cultivated a meditative process allowing for the agility to document the small, fleeting moments of people and light in architecture.
After studying Architectural Technology and working in practice in the UK and US, he turned to photography and film making.
His photos and films cover work by architects such as Zaha Hadid, Assemble, Herzog & de Meuron, dRMM, Frances Kéré, Peter Zumthor, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, Sou Foujimoto and many more, including a number of exciting new and emerging practices. His work has appeared extensively in print and online in publications such as The Architects’ Journal, Dezeen, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, Architecture Today, Architectural Review, A+U, Blueprint and Icon, amongst others.
His films about architecture have featured at international film festivals in London, New York, Milan, Paris, Sydney and Istanbul.
He holds a license from the Civil Aviation Authority to fly drones. He also curates The Miniclick Photography Talks, a series of free photography lectures and workshops founded in 2010.
Joana Franca (Brazil)
Joana is a Brazilian architectural photographer born and living in Brasília, the planned modernist capital of Brazil.
She graduated as an architect and has been working as a photographer since 2011, collaborating with contemporary architecture studios and various publishers to document recent Brazilian architectural production and its modern heritage.
Joana has also had many contemporary art exhibitions in important museums and cultural spaces throughout Brazil.
Andy Macpherson (Australia)
Andy is known for creating images that give a sense of place. He has a distinct approach to documenting people and architecture that captures truth and beauty. He believes in taking the work seriously but making the process fun.
Andy is also one half of the popular podcast BAAM alongside fellow photographer Barry MacKenzie @swizzler
Andy’s image was the winner of the M.mode Award 2020.
Andy has shot for many popular magazines including: Vogue Living, Dwell Magazine, Gourmet Traveller, Openhouse Magazine, Habitus Living, The Local Project, Belle, Green Magazine, Archdaily, Dezeen, Houses Magazine, Artichoke Magazine, Grand Designs, Inside Out
ENTRY CLOSES ON DECEMBER 31ST