Activity
EyeEm Photo Hack Day

Living in the age of the connected camera, a photo hack can change the lives of a million people with the mere click on "Download this App". But how do you create a photo app? How do you hack APIs for the good of mankind? And how is this all being done in merely 8 hours? In this 8 hour hackathon, Ramzi Rizk, co-founder and CTO of EyeEm, will give you an introduction to some of his favorite apps and APIs, providing inspiration for your own hacks. At the end of the day your hacks are going to be presented on stage. Participants should have some experience in coding or design. However, if you don't know how to code but got a smashing idea for a photo app, this is the place to meet a dev who can make it become reality.

The prize: an invitation to our grand Photo Hack Day (22/23 September, Berlin), giving you the chance to present your hack to some of the world's leading expert's in the photo and tech industry.

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Pre-register at www.eyeem.com/developers

EyeEm is a photo sharing and discovery app that connects you with like-minded people through the photos you take. Based on where you are, what you're doing and what you like, you'll stumble upon new albums that are filled with photos from your friends and people around the world. It's a whole new way of visually exploring what’s around you.

Speaker: Ramzi Rizk (@ramz) is co-founder and CTO of EyeEm, a photo sharing & discovery app based in Berlin. Before co-founding the company in early 2011 he was a technical projects lead at a software lab and a PhD candidate and lecturer at the department of Information Systems at Humboldt University.

Conference
iphoneography: much more than meets the i

What's to know about taking a photo with an iPhone? So much more than people realise. The filters and special effects are just the tip of the i-ceburg. In this talk, Richard Gray, UK's first lecturer in mobile photography at Kensington & Chelsea College in London, takes you through the world of iPhone camera techniques, apps and special effects. Following his maxim "App to the Max!" there are million ways to spin an image. If you can see it in your head, there's an app that will allow you to make it reality. Richard will give you a glimpse into one of the most exciting and fast-moving new genres in photography.

Speaker: Richard Gray @rugfoot developed and delivers a course in mobile photography, run by Kensington & Chelsea College in London since February 2012. He has spoken at various conferences, written articles and blogs about mobile photography at iphoggy.com. In the autumn he will be running a series of 2-day workshops throughout Europe in conjunction with instagramers.com. He is also a professional music photographer.

Workshop  - Tech Cross 2 area
Analog Instant Photography with Polaroid Cameras and Impossible Project Films

In 2008 The Impossible Project was launched with one concrete aim: To keep the magic of analog instant photography alive by inventing and producing new instant film materials for vintage Polaroid cameras.

The hands-on workshop with the Impossible expert Michael Fischer is your chance to dust off your Polaroid camera and start taking fantastic pictures with Impossible Project films. Learn basic film handling techniques and advice on using the different Impossible films types to ensure great results. Michael will cover topics ranging from shielding techniques to temperature control, helping you to harness this film’s unique character.

Participants are guaranteed to leave with photographs that’ll knock their socks off, taken with the latest Impossible film! If you have your own Polaroid camera, please feel free to bring it. If not, we’ll have loaner cameras for you to use while you’re there. Learn more about Impossible here: www.the-impossible-project.com

Speaker: Michael Fischer was born 1987 in Bavaria, after his Abitur his study brought him to Austria in 2007. In 2010 his live changed when he walked pass the Impossible Space Vienna. Michael changed his focus from old Polaroid films to his first SX-70 and the Impossible film materials. In the last two years he bought over 40 Polaroid cameras according to the motto "Gotta Catch 'em all". Meanwhile he acquired skills in creative techniques, conversions of cameras and many other interesting possibilities which Impossible made possible again. When he is not shooting he studies and teaches at Technical University Vienna.

Activity  - Tech Cross 2 area
Instagramers Photowalk

The photowalk will take place at the former airport Berlin Tempelhof. The goal of this activity will be to provide the participants with some new inspiration, ideas and techniques. We want to encourage you to become even better mobile photographers and help you to understand better why sharing in social networks is the key to become successful at shooting. To achieve this we will divide the participants into groups and each group will be getting different tasks about what to shoot. The tasks will be announced in advance. The entire event will be accompanied by up to 4 established mobile photographers who will share some insights on what inspires them and give some advice about how to edit pictures the best way possible. At the end of the walk is finished there will be a final discussion and a presentation of the pictures taken.

Coordinators: Thomas Kakareko (@thomas_k) and Sylvia Matzkowiak (@goldie77) will accompany the photowalk among two other mobile photographers who will be announced shortly.

Instagramers was originally launched to help users and give them the right tools to become a better mobile photographer. Today it's the biggest community of passionate Instagram users. Besides providing news and updates on Instagram you can also find very interesting tips, tricks and tutorials on our blog.

Challenge  - Tech Cross 2
EyeEm Challenge

EyeEm is a photo sharing & discovery app that lets you take photos together with possibly the best, most inspiring and creatively mind-blowing community out there. The best thing about it: You can be part of it! In this workshop your host Severin will introduce you to the tips & tricks behind taking awesome photos with your mobile cellular telephonic camera (also known as mobile phone) and then branch out on 5 individual missions to capture life, love and drama all over Campus Party. In the end we'll review the photos taken during the challenge and together decide on the winners of the grand EyeEm prize.

www.eyeem.com, @EyeEm

EyeEm is a photo sharing and discovery app that connects you with like-minded people through the photos you take. Based on where you are, what you're doing and what you like, you'll stumble upon new albums that are filled with photos from your friends and people around the world. It's a whole new way of visually exploring what’s around you.

Coordinator: Severin Matusek (@severin07) shoots from the hip for over 10 years. Taking care of the well-being of EyeEm's global community, he previously published photo books for Lomography, hijacked cameras and gave numerous workshops on topics such as snapshot photography, tram riding or the history of philosophy.

Workshop  - Tech Cross 2 area
Mobile Street Photography

During this workshop, we will present the value of mobile devices in street photography. Through our personal experiences, we will try to share and interact with people about it. All along the event, we’ll present some basic and advanced techniques about mobile photography (shooting and post processing). We will then discuss about how convenient the mobile devices are for street photography. And to finish, we will discuss about the way to share and promote our photography through the use of social networks (eyeem, instagram, blogs…).

Bénédicte Guillon: Born in South Korea and living in Paris. Started taking photos at the end of December 2009. Entered the iPhoneographic community in early 2010. Is grateful to all those who supported her from the very start. Benedicte’s photos have been exhibited in many mobile photography events all around the world. One of her series has been published in a book with the collaboration of the writer Romain Monnery. She is a co-founding member of the Mobile Photo Group (MPG), an international cooperative of mobile photographers.  Instagram: @iphoneographic

Kalel Koven: Photographer for 5 years now, Kalel Koven started to use his iPhone as a serious creative device for street photography but also for different other kind of intimacy projects. He believes that Mobile Photography can be used in a professional way but in a different state of mind. His iPhone thus became the best creative and efficient alternative along with his pro DSLR. His work has been exhibited in many places in Paris and his New York series can actually be seen in Nice at l’Area Gallery (South of France).
Instagram: @kalelkoven

Conference  - Tech Cross 2
GIF-Loops workshop with Loopc.am

Loopc.am is a new way for people to express themselves and share moments in short GIF-based video clips called loops. Loopc.am captures a series of frames through an iPhone camera. Stop-Motion style. These are seamlessly and quickly merged into an animation to share. The concept has proved its addictive appeal to anyone who loves visual interaction. The workshop will explore the new borderlands in between photography, video — and traditional text based communication.

This is Loopcam, the video: https://vimeo.com/41158421