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Best Single Photos Announced By Sony World Photo Awards
28 March 2017
Ten photographs from over 105,000 entries have been selected as winners of the Open categories of the Sony World Photography Awards. Also announced were the winners of the National awards for the best single photos taken by local photographers in 66 countries.
Open Category Winners. Top (l-r): Lise Johansson (Enhanced), Tim Cornbill (Architecture), Alexander Vinogradov (Portraits), Ralph Gräf (Travel), Constantinos Sofikitis (Street Photography), Sergey Dibtsev (Still Life), Hiroshi Tanita (Nature), Camilo Diaz (Motion), Jianguo Gong (Culture), Alessandra Meniconzi (Wildlife).
The Open category winners, shown in the collage above, are:
- Architecture: Tim Cornbill
- Culture: Jianguo Gong (China)
- Enhanced: Lise Johansson (Denmark)
- Motion: Camilo Diaz (Colombia)
- Nature: Hiroshi Tanita (Japan)
- Portraits: Alexander Vinogradov (Russia)
- Still Life: Sergey Dibtsev (Russia)
- Street Photography: Constantinos Sofikitis (Greece)
- Travel: Ralph Gräf (Germany)
- Wildlife: Alessandra Meniconzi (Switzerland)
"It has been a pleasure and an inspiration to be exposed to such a volume of great work and a privilege too that I could share in the personal moments, the joys, tears, life and losses of photographers from all around the globe who recorded their experiences through their pictures," said Damien Demolder, journalist and photographer, Chair of the Open competition.
NATIONAL AWARDS
The winners of the Sony World Photography Awards' National Awards, a global program to find the best single photographs taken by local photographers in 66 countries, were also has announced.
"Read All About It" by Argus Paul Estabrook is the winner of United States National Award. Estabrook is a 39-year-old Korean-American who "seeks out and investigates the unseen, unacknowledged citizens of Seoul."
Argus Paul Estabrook. Read All About It. U.S. National award winner.
Estabrook's image shows a man selling Workers' Solidarity newspapers to protesters marching towards the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea on March 12, 2016. The headline reads: "Park Geun-hye Resign Now."
Now in its fourth year, the National Awards are unique in both scope and reach and opened up to photographers from Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates for the first time this year.
Winners and runners-ups across all 66 National Awards were has announced and can be viewed here.
EXHIBITION
The winners of the Open categories and the National Awards will all be shown at the Sony World Photography Awards & Martin Parr -- 2017 Exhibition at Somerset House, London which opens on April 21 and runs until May 7.
For more information see the news release below.
The World's Best Single Photographs Revealed by 2017 Sony World Photography Awards
World's largest photography competition announces winners of its Open categories and National Awards program
Stunning individual images from around the world
Open Photographer of the Year announced 20 April
Ten extraordinary photographs from across the globe are today revealed as the winners of the Open categories of the Sony World Photography Awards, the world's largest photography competition.
The winners were selected from more than 105,000 entries to the Awards' Open competition, with the expert panel of judges looking for the best single photographs across ten categories.
The ten Open category winners are:
- Architecture: Tim Cornbill
- Culture: Jianguo Gong (China)
- Enhanced: Lise Johansson (Denmark)
- Motion: Camilo Diaz (Colombia)
- Nature: Hiroshi Tanita (Japan)
- Portraits: Alexander Vinogradov (Russia)
- Still Life: Sergey Dibtsev (Russia)
- Street Photography: Constantinos Sofikitis (Greece)
- Travel: Ralph Gräf (Germany)
- Wildlife: Alessandra Meniconzi (Switzerland)
"It has been a pleasure and an inspiration to be exposed to such a volume of great work and a privilege too that I could share in the personal moments, the joys, tears, life and losses of photographers from all around the globe who recorded their experiences through their pictures," said Damien Demolder, journalist and photographer, Chair of the Open competition.
National Awards
The winners of the Sony World Photography Awards' National Awards, a global program to find the best single photographs taken by local photographers in 66 countries, were also has announced.
Now in its fourth year, the National Awards are unique in both scope and reach and opened up to photographers from Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates for the first time this year.
Winners and runners-ups across all 66 National Awards were has announced and can be viewed here.
Exhibition
The winners of the Open categories and the National Awards will all be shown at the Sony World Photography Awards & Martin Parr -- 2017 Exhibition at Somerset House, London which opens on the 21 April and runs until the 7 May.
The exhibition will include all the winning, shortlisted (top 10) and commended (top 50) photographs drawn from more than 227,000 entries from 183 countries to the Sony World Photography Awards. It will also feature a special dedication to British photographer Martin Parr, recipient of the Awards' Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize.