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This year The Sony World Photography Awards celebrates its 11th anniversary. It is one of the most respected and influential photography contests. Every year the Awards gather the best photography from around the world and this year is no exception. We are presented with the most beautiful pictures by both professional and amateur artists.
The photo contest received a record total of 319,561 images. It hands out awards to the best photographers in 4 different categories; Professional (body of work), open (single images), youth (photographers aged 12-19), and student focus. One photo of each participating country is presented with a National Award.
All category winners will receive cutting-edge digital imaging equipment from Sony. Cash prizes of $25k will be presented to the Photographer of the Year and $5k to the Open Photographer of the Year.
Tell us which of these cool photos are your favorites in the comments and don't forget to check out the pretty pictures by last year's winners.
More info: worldphoto.org
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#1
Brendon Cremer, South Africa National Award
#2
Martin Stranka, Czech Republic National Award
#3
Paranyu Pithayarungsarit, Thailand National Award
#4
Suphakaln Wongcompune, Thailand National Award
#5
Isabelle Bacher, Austria National Award
#6
Wenjie Qiao, United States National Award
#7
Kyaw Win Hlaing, Myanmar National Award,
#8
Chin Boon Leng, Singapore National Award
#9
Santiago Borja, Ecuador National Award
#10
Lynn Wu, Taiwan National Award
#11
Pedro Jarque, Peru National Award
#12
Junghye Lee, South Korea National Award
#13
Veselin Atanasov, Bulgaria National Award
#14
Petar Sabol, Croatia National Award
#15
Yen Sin Wong, Malaysia National Award
#16
Bassam Allam, Egypt National Award
#17
Min Ly, Cambodia National Award
#18
Ingrid Vekemans, Belgium National Award
#19
Justyna Zdunczyk, Poland National Award
#20
Sylvia Michel, Switzerland National Award
#21
Md. Tofazzal Hossain, Bangladesh National Award
#22
Au Hin Man, Hong Kong National Award
#23
Anton Novozhilov, Estonia National Award
#24
Takashi Nakazawa, Japan National Award
#25
Nicky Loh, Singapore National Awar
#26
Ales Krivec, Slovenia National Award
#27
Tina Signesdottir Hult, Norway National Award
#28
Zeyar Htun, Myanmar National Award
#29
Chul-Ui Song, South Korea National Award
Darren Shalla 6 years ago
Meh, It's a gas station in a snow fall. You know how many of these kind of shots there are in Canada? Not sure how this got an award.
#31
Mikkel Beiter, Denmark National Award
#32
Thu Huynh, Vietnam National Award
#33
Jonatan Banista, Central America National Award
#34
Jianguang Zhou, China National Award
#35
Erika Valkovicova, Slovakia National Award
#37
Nuket Uluc, Turkey National Award
#40
Min Ly, Cambodia National Award
#41
Abdulla Al-Mushaifri, Qatar National Award
#42
Damon Beckford, Finland National Award
#43
Sai Aung Main, Myanmar National Award
#44
Fajar Kristianto, Indonesia National Award
#45
Marie Moroni, France National Award
#47
Andrius Kundrotas, Lithuania National Award
#48
Nicu Spinu, Romania National Award
therealpixie 6 years ago
I do not understand this road. It's not a switchback down a mountain, or it would curve downward in the bottom right of the picture. Instead, it curves upward to go back where it came from. Why? Does anyone know what it is?
#50
Kenneth O Halloran, Ireland National Award
#51
Manuel Armenis, Germany National Award
#52
Louie Lam Shu Yan, Hong Kong National Award
#53
Panos Skordas, Greece National Award
#57
Swapnil Deshpande, India National Award
#59
Ajay Maharjan, Nepal National Award
#64
Yusuke Suzuki, Japan National Award
#65
Richard Winston, United States National Award
#66
Katy Gomez Lopez, Spain National Award
#67
Lennart Hessel, Sweden National Award
#68
Md Enamul Kabir, Bangladesh National Award
#71
Kai Fatt Eng, Malaysia National Award
#73
Mirella Lukens, Netherlands National Award
#74
Yoon Jeongvin, South Korea National Award
#75
Caterina Bruzzone, Italy National Award
#76
Pranishan Rajbhandari, Nepal National Award
#77
Aleksandr Bityutskih, Russia National Award,
HellCat 6 years ago
I don't know what to think about this one. It's a little out of place, in my humble opinion. Not saying that the other pictures are not photomanipulated, but this one it is to a more obvious degree. Unless that house is painted that way in real life, which I don't think it is. Or maybe I just don't get the message behind it, but overall I am not too impressed with it. I've seen breathtaking pictures in this collection. This one, to me, is a little strange.
#79
Chris Round, Australia National Award
#84
Milan Radisics, Hungary National Award
#85
Allan Borebor, Philippines National Award
Vita Vitriaulfa 6 years ago
Taman Nasional BROMO TENGGER SEMERU, North Java, Indonesia. My home sweet home 💝
#87
Hardijanto Budiman, Indonesia National Award
ispeak catanese 6 years ago
That reminds me... I need one of those flexible tubes to hide all the cables behind the tv
#89
Antony Trivet, Kenya National Award
#90
Achintha Dahanayake, Sri Lanka National Award
#91
Moin Ahmed, Bangladesh National Award
#92
Marcelo Cugliari, Argentina National Award
#93
Nick Dolding, United Kingdom National Award
#94
Chu-Ying Lui, Hong Kong National Award
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Rodd Young 6 years ago
st place whilst it is a stunning image, is also a staged and heavily photoshopped piece. Remember seeing a piece a while back about how it was done and the staging the photographer went through. I’m all for post processing but there should be seperate categories for this , it isn’t fair to judge a once in a life time shot captured in the exact moment against an image that has taken multiple shoots and massive amounts of editing in photoshop to create, this is a photo manipulation or composit rather than a photograph, still a stunning image tho:)
Rodd Young 6 years ago
st place whilst it is a stunning image, is also a staged and heavily photoshopped piece. Remember seeing a piece a while back about how it was done and the staging the photographer went through. I’m all for post processing but there should be seperate categories for this , it isn’t fair to judge a once in a life time shot captured in the exact moment against an image that has taken multiple shoots and massive amounts of editing in photoshop to create, this is a photo manipulation or composit rather than a photograph, still a stunning image tho:)
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