"What do you want to say about our world as it is today?

(...) There are photographs of protest — many coming from the places that have been “Occupied.” Yet most photographers seem to find hope even in protest, as seen in Sion Fullana‘s ‘Love in Uncertain Times’.

We’re looking for images that will tell children born into the world today what this world is all about. But Mr. Fullana’s image betrays our oversight: Some things never change.”

-- Kerri Macdonald, LENS, New York Times

BIO:   Sion Fullana is a professional photographer, journalist and filmmaker living in New York City. He was born in Majorca (Spain), and lived in Barcelona and San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) where he graduated in film directing at the prestigious EICTV (International Film and TV School). He directed two short films that made the festival circuits around the world, worked as a TV reporter, and moved to Manhattan in 2006, where he found a strong new career/vocational path as a photographer / street photographer that changed his life forever.

Sion Fullana combines his journalistic and cinematic backgrounds in his urban and street photography - and New York City and its characters have provided an endless source of inspiration to his images, as he captures the raw reality of the city and its decisive moments. As one of the most recognized members of the new artistic movement of mobile photography (formerly known also as iPhoneography), he has been a trailblazer and pioneer in the mobile revolution, working with his iPhones 3G, 3Gs and 4. Aiming to open new doors for mobile photo possibilities, Sion has collaborated in the fashion campaign of BAR III for Macy’s, shot for Tory Burch during NY Fasion Week 2012 and has photographed important clients from entrepreneurs and actors, to Best Original Song Oscar winner Marketa Irglova, for whom he has done the publicity photo work for her first solo album/tour “Anar.” Other collaborations include the Gamification Summit in New York and San Francisco, or the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway for the last two years as the official photographer of this charity and theater event involving big Hollywood, TV and theater figures like Billy Crudup, Sarah Silverman, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Eisenberg, Jennifer Aniston, Elijah Wood, Gloria Stefan or Megan Fox. He’s also one of the 12 founders of the Mobile Photo Group (MPG), a cooperative of artists that seeks to push mobile photography into the mainstream photo/journalism scene and document life using a smart phone.

Sion Fullana’s work has been featured in several national and online TV segments in Spain and the US, and in newspapers and photography blogs and magazines, such as American Photo Magazine, Phaidon.com, Cosmopolitan Spain, Mashable, El País, La Vanguardia, Metro UK, Time Out NY, Wink-Magazine, Photocritic.org, Out There, and Gup Magazine, and his iPhone images even made it to the covers of two international books.  Fullana is the  spokesperson of WinG (Win-Initiative’s new mobile photography stock division) and he has been a public speaker about iPhoneography techniques, community and how to monetize the new trend, with talks like “Photographing NYC with an iPhone”  at the Soho Apple Store (NYC) or the photography convention / trade show PMA 2010 in Anaheim (California)

Sion Fullana’s experience has branched out in judging photo competitions like the first EYE’EM International Mobile Photo Award, the “Air Print Moments” contest by HP or the Street Photography category in the MPA awards.  His own images have been showcased in several group exhibits, including #iPhoneography  and “Ones to Watch” during 2011 Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival, iPHONEOGRAPHY (Art center LA PANERA, Lleida, Spain) or the “New York Local Heroes” segment (EYEEM Open House Gallery, NYC). This year, he’s part part of “Mobile Eyephoneography,“ the first ever traveling exhibit for mobile photography, that is currently touring the FNAC stores of 8 major cities in Spain. Sion is currently collaborating in the first iPhoneography documentary being shot (by filmmaker Eric De Fino of RayGun productions), is working on his first photography book of his work, and preparing several workshops and is awaiting for the upcoming launch of Stephanie Robert’s book “Lens on Life” about documentary photography, where Sion is featured alongside several legends of the field.

“While other urban men are using their iPhones to get laid via GPS (or just to show off some halfway decent pecs), Sion Fullana has put his handset to more artful use. With his snapshots of stolen moments around the city, the Manhattan-based photographer (and TONY regular) has emerged as the master of a young format. Decide for yourself if iPhones are even cameras, or if this kind of work fits your idea of what a photograph is. If nothing else, Fullana's making New York at least look cool again.”

-- Roberto De Luna, former Photo Editor of Time Out New York.