Sony World Photography Awards
The Sony World Photography Awards have been presented annually by the World Photography Organization since 2008 in the Professional , Youth , 3D , Student , National and Open competitions as an award for outstanding photographs . The namesake sponsor is the Japanese electronics company Sony . The winning works will be exhibited at Somerset House in London after the winners have been announced .
Conditions of participation
Participation is free and is open to anyone interested. However, those who register images in the Professional competition are excluded from parallel participation in the Open competition and vice versa. Those applying for the Youth competition are not allowed to submit photos in Professional or Open at the same time .
Previous winners
Prize winner 2013
In 2013, a total of more than 120,000 photos were submitted for evaluation. Of these, 63,000 were in the professional, 55,000 in the amateur and around 5,000 in the youth sector.
Competition Professional
| category | Places 1 to 3 |
|---|---|
| architecture | 1. Fabrice Fouillet, France 2. Reinis Hofmanis, Latvia 3. Christof Pluemacher, Germany |
| Arts & Culture | 1. Myriam Meloni, Italy 2. Niccolo Rastrelli, Italy 3. Danish Siddiqui / Reuters , India |
| Campaign | 1. Christian Åslund, Sweden 2. Scout Tufankjian, United States 3. Spencer Murphy, United Kingdom |
| Conceptual | 1. Roman Pyatkovka, Ukraine 2. Florian Ruiz, France 3. Edurne Aguinaga, Spain |
| Contemporary Issues | 1. Valerio Bispuri / Echo Press, Italy 2. Samuel James, United States 3. Daesung Lee / SIPA Press, South Korea |
| Current Affairs | 1. Ilya Pitalev / RIA Novosti, Russia 2. Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Photos, Italy 3. Fabio Bucciarelli, Italy |
| Fashion & Beauty | 1. Klaus Thymann / Adamsky, Denmark 2. Thierry Bouët, France 3. Alice Pavesi, Italy |
| Landscape | 1. Nenad Saljic, Croatia 2. Regis Boileau, France 3. Arjen Schmitz, Netherlands |
| Lifestyle | 1. Alice Caputo, Italy 2. Kuni Takahashi, Japan 3. Fausto Podavini, Italy |
| Nature & Wildlife | 1. Satoru Kondo, Japan 2. Ernest Goh, Singapore 3. Hudson Garcia, Brazil |
| People | 1. Andrea Gjestvang, Norway 2. Balazs Gardi, Hungary 3. Pete Muller, United States |
| Portraiture | 1. Jens Juul, Denmark |
| Sports | 1. Adam Pretty / Getty Images , Australia 2. Ryan Pierse / Getty Images, Australia 3. Isabela Pacini, Brazil |
| Still life | 1. Vanessa Colareta, Peru |
| Travel | 1. Gali Tibbon, Israel 2. Daniel Duart, Spain 3. Johannes Heuckeroth, Germany |
Other award winners
On April 25, 2013 the following award winners were announced:
| Competition / title | Award winner | Honored work |
|---|---|---|
| L'Iris d'Or / Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year | Andrea Gjestvang, Norway | "One Day in History" series of pictures about survivors of the 2011 attack on Utøya |
| Open Photographer of the Year | Hoang Hiep Nguyen, Vietnam | Photo "Young woman in a storm" |
| Outstanding Contribution to Photography | William Eggleston , United States | Eggleston's influence on color photography |
| Student Focus Photographer of the Year | Natalia Wiernik, Poland | Submitted photo for the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow |
| Youth Photographer of the Year | Alecsandra Dragoi, Romania | Photo of a New Year celebrations in Romania |
Members of the jury
In 2013, the following personalities selected the winning photos:
| group | Surname | Professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Group 1: Lifestyle / Fashion & Beauty / Campaign / Sport | Catherine Chermayeff | Director of Special Projects, Magnum Photos |
| Tim Paton | Managing Director, Balcony Jump | |
| Brandei Estes | Associate Director, Nelson Freeman Gallery (France) | |
| Group 2: Architecture / Conceptual / Portraiture / Still Life | Juana de Aizpuru | Gallery Director, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru (Spain) |
| Andrew Sanigar | Commissioning Editor, Thames & Hudson | |
| Edmund Clark | Photographer (United Kingdom) | |
| Group 3: Current Affairs / Contemporary Issues / People / Arts & Culture | Francesca Sears | Director, Panos Profile / Panos Pictures |
| Chien-Chi Chang | Photographer ( Taiwan ) | |
| Fiona Shields | Picture Editor, The Guardian | |
| Group 4: Travel / Landscape / Nature & Wildlife | Caroline Metcalfe | Director of Photography, Condé Nast Traveler |
| Monica Suder | International consultant and coach (Germany & USA) | |
| Macduff Everton | Photographer (USA) |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea Gjestvang wins Sony World Photography Award 2013. Heise photo, April 26, 2013, accessed on April 27, 2013 .
- ^ Sony World Photography Award Galleries - The Power of Imaging. World Photography Organization, accessed April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ 2013 Sony World Photography Awards Winners Announced. (No longer available online.) World Photography Organization, April 25, 2013, archived from the original on May 31, 2013 ; accessed on April 27, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage of Andrea Gjestvang
- ↑ Picture series "One Day in History"
- ↑ 2013 Honorary Judging Committee. (No longer available online.) World Photography Organization, archived from the original on January 15, 2013 ; accessed on April 26, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- World Photography Organization website
- Award-winning moments. Sony World Photography Award. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on April 26, 2013 .