The World Photography Organisation is happy to announce the class winners and shortlist within the Open competitors of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023, recognising the most effective single photographs from 2022.
Over 415,000 photographs from over 200 nations and territories have been submitted to the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 and over 200,000 have been entered into the Open competitors. Each winner receives digital imaging tools from Sony and can go on to compete for the celebrated Open Photographer of the Year title and a $5,000 (USD) prize.
The general winner of the Open competitors can be introduced on the Awards’ ceremony in London on 13 April. Selected successful and shortlisted photographs can be proven as a part of the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House from 14 April-1 May 2023.
The ten class winners are:
ARCHITECTURE
Mark Benham (United Kingdom) for The Silos, a collage-like picture of silos and surrounding buildings in eye-catching rosy hues on the Port of Brest in France.
CREATIVE
Boris Eldagsen (Germany) for PSEUDOMNESIA | The Electricia, a haunting black-and-white portrait of two girls from completely different generations, paying homage to the visible language of Forties household portraits.
LANDSCAPE
Giorgos Rousopoulos (Greece) for his picture of a Greek mountain panorama that includes a hiker climbing up Mount Tymfi, standing majestically within the background and overlooking Pindus National Park.
LIFESTYLE
Azim Khan Ronnie (Bangladesh) for Childhood, capturing youngsters weaving out and in of scores of big cones (topas) in a Bangladeshi rice processing plant as they play with a cart utilized by staff to hold and dry rice.
MOTION
Zhenhuan Zhou (China Mainland) for Slam on the Brakes, capturing a cowgirl in a barrel racing competitors in Ontario, Canada. In these competitions, cowgirls journey round barrels with the quickest one topped because the winner.
NATURAL WORLD & WILDLIFE
Dinorah Graue Obscura (Mexico) for Mighty Pair, a black-and-white portrait taken throughout a visit in South Texas, that includes two crested caracara birds standing nonetheless and looking past the digital camera in the identical course, as if posing for the photographer.
OBJECT
Mieke Douglas (Netherlands) for Recycled, all will not be because it appears in a trompe l’oeil shot of flower-like plastic baggage and tulle organized as a bouquet, inviting us to take a re-assessment.
PORTRAITURE
Sukhy Hullait (United Kingdom) for Charlie, a portrait shot centre-frame of a younger teenager who, alongside along with his pals, determined to show an deserted pub automobile park right into a skatepark when most of them have been closed through the pandemic.
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Andreas Mikonauschke (Germany) for Exhausted, an evocative black-and-white portrait of males on the level of exhaustion after lifting and carrying heavy wood frames with statues displaying biblical scenes by means of the streets of Andalusia through the conventional Easter processions of ‘Semana Santa’.
TRAVEL
Max Vere-Hodge (United Kingdom) for Ghosts, a dramatic black-and-white {photograph} of the Mundari tribe of South Sudan showing among the many nightly fires they mild to maintain the tsetse flies and mosquitoes off their beloved Ankole-Watusi cows.
This 12 months’s Open competitors was judged by Eric Schlosser, Art Director, Tbilisi Art Fair, Georgia.
The general winners within the Student, Youth, Open and Professional competitions of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 can be introduced on 13 April 2023 and can go on show as a part of the exhibition at Somerset House, London from 14 April-1 May 2023. For extra details about winners and shortlists please go to www.worldphoto.org
OPEN COMPETITION 2023 WINNERS AND SHORTLIST
| ARCHITECTURE
Category Winner Mark Benham, UK Shortlist Robert Bolton, UK Tony Cowburn, UK Fabio Del Ghianda, Italy Peter Dulis, Canada Donell Gumiran, Philippines Yichien Lee, Taiwan Angiolo Manetti, Italy Desmond Chien Yew Ngu, Malaysia Margit Lisa Roeder, Germany Yuya Takahashi, Japan George Turnbull, UK Kjell Vikestad, Norway Albrecht Voss, Germany Beatrice Wong, Hong Kong | CREATIVE
Category Winner Boris Eldagsen, Germany Shortlist Elli Asker, Azerbaijan Nicolas Bigot, France Hardijanto Budyman, Indonesia Enda Burke, Ireland Bilal EL Harousse, Morocco Mariola Glajcar, Poland Yi Han, China Mainland Peter Irungu, Kenya Richard Poe, USA Angel Ros Die, Spain Namukolo Siyumbwa, Zambia Kinga Wnuk, Poland Chenghao Zhao, China Mainland | LANDSCAPE
Category Winner Giorgos Rousopoulos, Greece Shortlist Olivia Bennett, UK Isabel Bielderman, Netherlands Robert Bilos, Croatia Jordi Coy, Spain David Del Rosario Dávila, Spain Gill Fry, Australia Judith Kuhn, Germany Bing Li, Canada Roberto Pavić, Croatia Michael Prince, USA Martin Rak, Czech Republic Andreja Ravnak, Slovenia Indirani Thevar, India Marcin Zajac, Poland |
| LIFESTYLE
Category Winner Azim Khan Ronnie, Bangladesh Shortlist Francesco Bambi, Italy Ruth Chamberlain, UK Raffaella De Luise, Italy Mohamad Ali Harisi, Lebanon Sabbir Hossen, Bangladesh Jessica Innemee, Netherlands Kathryn Mussallem, Canada Ninoshka Pais, Canada Markus Pasa, Austria Jean Veron, France Zuojian Wang, China Mainland | MOTION
Category Winner Zhenhuan Zhou, China Mainland Shortlist Zacarías Abad Torres, Spain Pedro Luis Ajuriaguerra Saiz, Spain Kristian Hvidtfeldt Buus, Denmark Ricardo García Mainou, Mexico Gabriel Hernandez, Spain Leo Huang, Taiwan Andres Moreno, Colombia Francesco Junior Mura, Italy Raido Nurk, Estonia Kazutoshi Ono, Japan Ata Ranjbar Zeydanloo, Iran, Islamic Republic Of Martin Rickett, UK | NATURAL WORLD & WILDLIFE
Category Winner Dinorah Graue Obscura, Mexico Shortlist Vince Burton, UK Charly Clérisse, France Subrata Dey, Bangladesh Patrick Ems, Switzerland Marcio Esteves Cabral, Brazil Mark Fitzsimmons, Australia Pietro Formis, Italy Jose Manuel Grandio, Spain James Hunter, USA Arnfinn Johansen, Norway Andrea Michelutti, Italy Protap Shekhor Mohanto, Bangladesh Alex Pansier, Netherlands Tibor Prisznyák, Hungary |
| OBJECT
Category Winner Mieke Douglas, Netherlands Shortlist Masahiko Abe, Japan Giuseppe Colarusso, Italy Zeynep Demirhan, Turkey Tim Green, UK Andrius Kundrotas, Lithuania Xiaoye Jin, China Mainland Roberto Emiliano Porsella Jurado, Argentina Masumi Shiohara, Japan Nan Lay Thwe Oo, Myanmar Catherine Wang, USA | PORTRAITURE
Category Winner Sukhy Hullait, UK Shortlist Brian Cassey, UK Jonathan Damslund, Denmark Donell Gumiran, Philippines Glenn Homann, Australia Sandra Mickiewicz, Poland Nukabari Opuama, Nigeria Lukas Palatinus, Slovakia Louis Park, New Zealand Angela Perez, USA Mwana Pwo, Angola Gemma Sains, UK Christopher Wonder, Nigeria Mateusz Żurowski, Poland | STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Category Winner Andreas Mikonauschke, Germany Shortlist Nazly Ahmed, Sri Lanka Stan De Zoysa, Spain Lorenzo Grifantini, Italy Rizwan Hasan, Bangladesh Barbara Iwińska, Poland Lucian Alexandru Micu, Romania Cath Muldowney, UK Kathryn Mussallem, Canada Benson Spiers, UK Chin Leong Teo, Singapore Takahiro Toh, Japan Ting Hao Tseng, Taiwan Tommaso Vaccarezza, Italy Pável Vélez, Mexico |
| TRAVEL
Category Winner Max Vere-Hodge, UK Shortlist Pamela Chiang, Taiwan Erhan Coral, Turkey Tim Daniels, UK Callie Eh, Malaysia Marios Forsos, Greece Takahiro Gamou, Japan Paweł Jagiełło, Poland Guojia Li, China Mainland Yukihito Ono, Japan Adrian Pearce, UK Fabian Pfeifhofer, Italy İsmail Serhat Şahin’, Turkey Ankur Tambde, India Yunhua Yu, China Mainland |
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ABOUT SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
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IMAGE CREDITS – GRID (FROM TOP ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT):
© Mark Benham, United Kingdom, Winner, Open Competition, Architecture, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© Jordi Coy, Spain, Shortlist, Open Competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© Kinga Wnuk, Poland, Shortlist, Open Competition, Creative, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© Isabel Bielderman, Netherlands, Shortlist, Open Competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© Paweł Jagiełło, Poland, Shortlist, Open Competition, Travel, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© Dinorah Graue Obscura, Mexico, Winner, Open Competition, Natural World & Wildlife, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© İsmail Serhat Şahin’, Turkey, Shortlist, Open Competition, Travel, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© Max Vere-Hodge, United Kingdom, Winner, Open Competition, Travel, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© Enda Burke, Ireland, Shortlist, Open Competition, Creative, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© Xiaoye Jin, China Mainland, Shortlist, Open Competition, Object, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© Michael Prince, United States, Shortlist, Open Competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© James Hunter, United States, Shortlist, Open Competition, Natural World & Wildlife, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© Lorenzo Grifantini, Italy, Shortlist, Open Competition, Street Photography, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
© Azim Khan Ronnie, Bangladesh, Winner, Open Competition, Lifestyle, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
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