365 Project 2021 | Selection
365 Project 2021 | Selection
In Place | Portraits of a Pandemic - Selection
In Place | Portraits of a Pandemic - Selection
In Place | Portraits of a Pandemic - Selection
About Alon Goldsmith
Dubbed “LA’s iPhoneography Wizard” by Forbes magazine, Alon Goldsmith is an award-winning photographer who has been featured extensively across media and exhibited in galleries around the globe. His work is included in the private collections of photography collectors around the world. At a recent viewing of Alon’s work, Don Johnson was impressed by the “Cinematic sweep” of his California images.
Alon’s achievements include third place in the Los Angeles Center of Photography’s Street Photography Around the World Competition, winner of Santa Monica College’s Curriculum Cover Contest and runner up in the journalism category in the prestigious Mobile Photography Awards, as well as numerous honorable mentions across other categories. He has also achieved wins in the Hipstography Awards, and numerous honorable mentions in the International Photography Awards, iPhone Photography Awards and the MIRA Mobile Prize. Most recently, Alon was a jury member for the 2018 and 2019 MPAs. His work has also been published in the Los Angeles Times, Reader's Digest, the Forward, the Argonaut and the App Whisperer, and has been extensively featured in Snap and Mobiography magazines.
Alon shares his iPhoneograpy expertise in a series of eight articles written for Imagine More, a digital publication published by Manfrotto, one of the world’s leading photography accessory companies. His images have been featured in solo shows in New York, Brentwood, Topanga Canyon and San Diego, as well as at the LA Art Show, HaleARTS in Santa Monica and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts. Alon’s photography has appeared internationally in galleries in Canada, Italy, Portugal and Belgium.
In 2020, Alon published In Place | Portraits of a Pandemic, a book documenting the experiences of people isolating during the time of COVID-19.

AWARDS
Los Angeles Center of Photography: Street Photography Around the World: 3rd Place Winner
International Photo Awards: Honorable Mention
IPPA Awards 2021: Honorable Mention Still Life
Mira Mobile Prize 2021: Shortlisted in the Top 50
Mira Mobile Prize 2020: Shortlisted in the Top 50
Grant Recipient - Projecting Possibilities
MIRA Mobile Prize 2019: Two Shortlisted Images in the Top 50
Mobile Photography Awards 2016: Honorable Mention Silhouettes
IPPA Awards 2016: Honorable Mention, Lifestyle
Mobile Photography Awards 2015: Honorable Mention General Photography
Mobile Photography Awards 2015: Honorable Mention People Photography
Hipstography Awards 2015: Ben Watts and Hipstamatic Special Award
Mobile Photography Awards 2014: Honorable Mention Architecture & Design
Mobile Photography Awards 2014: Honorable Mention Street Photography
Mobile Photography Awards 2014: Honorable Mention Still Life
Hipstography Awards 2014: Winner Performing Arts Capture
IPPA Awards 2013: Winners, Children
IPPA Awards 2013: Winners, People
Mobile Photography Awards 2013: Honorable Mention Wildlife Category
Mobile Photography Awards 2013: Honorable Mention Transportation Category
Mobile Photography Awards 2013: Honorable Mention Waterscapes Category
Hipstography Awards 2013: Winner Performing Arts Capture
Mobile Photography Awards 2012: Runner Up, Photojournalism Category
The App Whisperer: Annual Showcase Best of 2012
IPPA Awards 2012: 2 x Runner Up, People
The Orange 2012: Top 50 Shortlist
EXHIBITIONS
LA Art Show 2021
LACP Group Show
Subtexts | Mobile in California
Topanga Canyon Gallery
Los Angeles
September 2016
Subtexts | Mobile in California
TB Gallery
East Village
New York
June 2016
Click. Boom. Amazing!
Group Show
Sofitel Brussels Europe
Brussels, Belgium
iART Group Show
HaleARTS SPACE
Santa Monica
USA
June 27 -- July 9, 2014
2012 MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS EXHIBIT
Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts
Collingwood
Ontario
Canada
August 1 -- 28, 2013
Holcim Gallery
Milton Centre for the Arts
Ontario
Canada
June 24 -- July 13, 2013
Arthaus Gallery
April 5 -- June 30, 2013
THE APP WARS: INSTAGRAM VS. HIPSTAMATIC
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), San Diego
November 10, 2012
Dante’s Comedy on Mobile Art
Bosco Divino, Verona Italy:
October 14 to 21, 2012
Social Culture Café
Ferrara, Italy
October 5 – 7, 2012
Colectivo f4
Porta, Portugal
May 5 to 25, 2012
Mobile P1xels Show
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
April 12-May 5, 2012