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Judges For 2017 Sony World Photo Awards Announced
15 September 2016
The judges for the 10th anniversary of the world's largest photography competition, the Sony World Photography Awards, have just been announced as the first few images entered in the contest have been revealed.
2017 Entries. From top left: Lorenzo Linkhout, Ellie Victoria Gale, Satvik Bhatt, Zuorong Li, José María Pérez, Daniel Hunter.
Experts from across the photographic industry will select the best images shot in 2016 across the awards' Professional, Open, Youth, National Award and Student Focus competitions.
Judges. 'A good picture always stops you in your tracks.'
The judges of the Professional competition are: Zelda Cheatle (Chair) Curator; Allegra Cordero di Montezemolo, Curator and Head of Exhibitions, Centro de la Imagen (Mexico); Russ O'Connell, Picture Editor, The Sunday Times Magazine; Aida Muluneh, Photographer and Cultural Entrepreneur (Ethiopia); Denis Curti, Creative Director, Tre Oci Foundation (Italy) and Francoise Callier, Program Director at Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops (France).
The Open and Youth competitions will be chaired by journalist/photographer Damien Demolder, who will also judge the National Awards competition which runs across 61 countries worldwide. The Student Focus competition will be judged by a selection of judges including Andrea Kurland, Editor-in-Chief, Huck, Dan Rubin, photographer/Creative Director and Jennifer Shaw, founder/Creative Director, PhotoNOLA.
Zelda Cheatle, Chair of the Professional competition, comments: "I will be looking for originality of thought and execution, clarity of vision -- a clear concept that translates well into pictures on the wall or on the screen. Simplicity, good craftsmanship and sometimes its wit or compassion, ingenuity, luck or good judgement -- but a good picture always stops you in your tracks."
For more information about the contest see the news release below.
Judges announced for 2017 Sony World Photography Awards, the world's largest photography competition
Competitions, including new categories, open for entries now until January 2017
2017 is the 10th anniversary of world's largest photography competition
New selection of images available for publication via worldphoto.org/press
The judges for the 10th anniversary of the world's largest photography competition, the Sony World Photography Awards, have been announced.
Esteemed experts from across the photographic industry will come together to uncover and celebrate the best images shot in 2016 across the awards' Professional, Open, Youth, National Award and Student Focus competitions.
Their chosen winners will not only receive the latest Sony digital imaging equipment and fantastic cash prizes, but will also be exhibited globally and most importantly, for the winners and many shortlisted, also receive world-wide exposure and recognition.
Talking about his experience winning the 2016 Professional Conceptual category, Julien Mauve comments: "With the visibility you get in all types of media and the people you meet, the Sony World Photography Awards is a major award in any photographer's journey and cannot be overlooked. I really enjoyed the experience, which did not stop after the night of the award ceremony but continued throughout the year."
Created by the World Photography Organisation, the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards will include new categories, pushing photographers' creative boundaries and invites photographers from all the corners of the world, of all abilities and styles, to enter their best images for free via http://www.worldphoto.org.
Coinciding with the judges announcement, over 100 of the winning and shortlisted images from the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards will be exhibited at Spazio Tadini in Milan, (Sept. 16 to Oct. 16.) and Photokina, Germany (Sept. 19 to 25).
2017 Jury
The judges of the Professional competition are: Zelda Cheatle (Chair) Curator; Allegra Cordero di Montezemolo, Curator and Head of Exhibitions, Centro de la Imagen (Mexico); Russ O'Connell, Picture Editor, The Sunday Times Magazine; Aida Muluneh, Photographer and Cultural Entrepreneur (Ethiopia); Denis Curti, Creative Director, Tre Oci Foundation (Italy) and Francoise Callier, Program Director at Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops (France).
The Open and Youth competitions will be chaired by journalist/photographer Damien Demolder, who will also judge the National Awards competition which runs across 61 countries worldwide. The Student Focus competition will be judged by a selection of judges including Andrea Kurland, Editor-in-Chief, Huck, Dan Rubin, photographer/Creative Director and Jennifer Shaw, founder/Creative Director, PhotoNOLA.
Zelda Cheatle, Chair of the Professional competition, comments: "I will be looking for originality of thought and execution, clarity of vision -- a clear concept that translates well into pictures on the wall or on the screen. Simplicity, good craftsmanship and sometimes its wit or compassion, ingenuity, luck or good judgement -- but a good picture always stops you in your tracks."
Prizes
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in London on April 20, 2017. Prizes include the latest Sony digital imaging equipment, inclusion in the 2017 awards' book plus cash prizes of $25,000 for the overall Professional winner and $5,000 for the overall Open winner.
In addition, the annual PR campaign for the awards' winners and shortlisted photographers secures invaluable international exposure with the world's most prestigious magazines and newspapers, as well as the most read Web sites and key photographic trade titles.
All winning and shortlisted images will also be exhibited as part of the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House, London from April 21 -- May 7, 2017.
Competition deadlines
- Dec. 5: Student Focus competition closes
- Jan. 5, 2017: Open, National Award and Youth competitions close
- Jan. 10, 2017: Professional competition closes
The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards received a record-breaking number of submissions: 230,103 images from 186 countries, a 33 percent increase in entries on 2015.