Last Updated on 02/23/2016 by Chris Gampat
Today, the Sony Word Photography Awards announced their shortlist. Since the launch, there have been 1,097,012 entries. The list and some selected images are after the jump.
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SHORTLISTED PHOTOGRAPHERS
PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES
Photographers were invited to enter a series of between 3 and 10 images into any of the following 14 categories. Judges were asked to select up to 10 photographers for the shortlist. Photographers are listed alphabetically.
Architecture
- Petr Antonov, Russia
- Jonathan Carvajal, Colombia
- Werner Elmer, Austria
- Amélie Labourdette, France
- Paul Störm, Australia
- Jonathan Tan, Singapore
- Hui Zhang, China
- Stephan Zirwes, Germany
Candid
- Valerio Bispuri, Italy
- Yvonne Brandwijk, Netherlands
- Giancarlo Ceraudo, Italy
- Liu Chengliang, China
- Fan Li, China
- Nick Ng, Malaysia
- Alexandre Pruvost, France
- Andrea Rossato, Italy
- Kirstin Schmitt, Germany
- Constantinos Xenoulis, Greece
Conceptual
- Alejandro Beltran, Venezuela
- Simon Brann Thorpe, United Kingdom
- Kate Davis, United Kingdom
- Vladimir Frumin, United States
- Barbaros Kayan, Turkey
- Julien Mauve, France
- Poya Raissi, Iran
- Lawrence Sumulong, Philippines
- Manuel Velasquez Tobar, Honduras
Landscape
- Maoyuan Cui, China
- Peter Franck, Germany
- Max Knight, United Kingdom
- Maroesjka Lavigne, Belgium
- Aurélien Maréchal, France
- Florian Mueller, Germany
- James Reeve, United Kingdom
- Stefan Schlumpf, Switzerland
- Prakash Singh, India
Portraiture
- Dmitri Beliakov, Russia
- Marcello Bonfanti, Italy
- Ruben Salgado Escudero, Spain
- Fauzan Ijazah, Indonesia
- Corinna Kern, Germany
- Armand Tamboly, Egypt
- Patrick Willocq, France
Staged
- Pierre Adenis, France
- Alberto Alicata, Italy
- Juliette Blanchard, France
- Kristoffer Eliassen, Norway
- Julia Fullerton-Batten, United Kingdom
- Dina Goldstein, Canada
- Photographer Hal, Japan
- Kumi Oguro, Japan
- Oana Stoian, Romania
- Cristina Vatielli, Italy
Still Life
- Francesco Amorosino, Italy
- Ilva Beretta, Sweden
- Kiliii Fish, United States
- Simone da Lima, Netherlands
- Daniele Robotti, Italy
- Julien Roubinet, France
- Oliver Schwarzwald, Germany
- Hiroshi Watanabe, Japan
- Bibiana Omar Zajtai, Spain
Campaign
- Antoine Repessé, France
- Christian Aslund, Sweden
- David Chancellor, United Kingdom
- Hernan Churba, Argentina
- Giles Clarke, United Kingdom
- Rob Gregory, United States
- Jetmir Idrizi, Kosovo
- Ed Kashi, United States
Contemporary Issues
- Laura Aggio Caldon, Italy
- Yong An He, China
- Kevin Frayer, Canada
- Simona Ghizzoni, Italy
- Asghar Khamseh, Iran
- Fan Li, China
- Kiki Streitberger, Germany
- Marielle Van Uitert, Netherlands
Current Affairs
- Andrew Burton, United States
- Gabriele Micalizzi, Italy
- Amnon Gutman, Romania
- Brendan Hoffman, United States
- Jason Koxvold, United Kingdom
- Aleksandra Kulak, Russia
- Andrea and Magda Micelli, Italy
- Alessandro Penso, Italy
- Angelos Tzortzinis, Greece
Daily Life
- Jean-Marc Caimi, Italy
- Peter Dench, United Kingdom
- Sandra Hoyn, Germany
- Espen Rasmussen, Norway
- Tiplea Remus, Romania
- Stephanie Sinclair, United States
- Anton Unitsyn, Russia
Environment
- Kevin Frayer, Canada
- Li Feng, China
- Lucy Nicholson, United Kingdom
- Alexander Semenov, Russia
- Mohammed Yousef, Kuwait
- Zhe Zhu, China
People
- Alessandro D’Angelo, Italy
- Daniel Berehulak, Australia
- Denise Felkin, United Kingdom
- Francesco Fratto, Italy
- Kevin Frayer, Canada
- Liz Hingley, United Kingdom
- Jordi Pizarro, Spain
- Filippo Venturi, Italy
Sport
- Antoine Bruy , France
- Annick Donkers, Belgium
- Matthias Hangst, Germany
- Michael Hanke, Czech Republic
- Jens Juul, Denmark
- Nikolai Linares Larsen, Denmark
- Patrick Sinkel, Germany
OPEN CATEGORIES
Judged on a single shot and open to photographers of all abilities, judges were asked to select up to 10 shortlisted images per category.
Architecture
- Laurian Ghinitoiu, Romania
- Radosław Goździelewski, Poland
- Attila Balogh, Hungary
- Javad Rooein, Iran
- Martin Seraphin, Germany
- Max van Son, Netherlands
- Nils Olof Wendel, Sweden
- Filip Wolak, Poland
- Zoltan Kasza, Hungary
Arts and Culture
- Kyaw Bo Bo Han, Myanmar
- José Alberto Sotomayor Jiménez, Peru
- Amir Hoosein Kamali, Iran
- Swee Choo Oh, Malaysia
- Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Bangladesh
- MD Tanveer Rohan, Bangladesh
- Nader Saadallah, Egypt
- Minh Ngo Thanh, Vietnam
- Kamil Wojtyła, Poland
- Longxiang Xie, China
Enhanced
- Nathalie Capitan, Switzerland
- Seandel Edwards, Trinidad and Tobago
- Sang Kill Kim, South Korea
- Luca Laghetti, Italy
- Pedro Diaz Molins, Spain
- Aslan Nahich, Iran
- Dan Novak, Germany
- Christian Spreng, Switzerland
- Mickael Szymanski, France
- Salvo Bombara, Italy
Low Light
- Theng Sin Chong, Malaysia
- Yiorgos Doukanaris, Cyprus
- Vincent Frascello, United States
- Stefan Liebermann, Germany
- Lijun Wang, China
- Sai Aung Main, Myanmar
- Egor Nikiforov, Russia
- Kei Nomiyama, Japan
- Sanghamitra Sarkar, India
- Tino Solomon, United Kingdom
Nature and Wildlife
- Valter Bernardeschi, Italy
- Nick Kontostavlakis, Greece
- Eric Madeja, Switzerland
- Christian Massari, Italy
- Andrey Narchuk, Russia
- Imre Potyó, Hungary
- Michaela Šmídová, Czech Republic
- Simona Tedesco, Italy
- Dennis Vandermeersch, Belgium
- Steiner Wang, Taiwan
Panoramic
- Maurizio Casula, Italy
- Daniel Fleischhacker, Germany
- Stefano Guerrini, Italy
- Markus van Hauten, Germany
- Dikky Oesin, Indonesia (shortlisted twice)
- Christian Ringer, Germany
- Grant Ritchie, United Kingdom
- Claude Roy, Canada
- Carlos F. Turienzo, Spain
People
- Karolis Janulis, Lithuania
- Elie Kauffmann, France
- Michele Liberti, Italy
- Borodkina Mariia, Russia
- Alexandre Meneghini, Brazil
- Daniel Arranz Molinero, Spain
- Lewis Outing, United Kingdom
- Nikunj Rathod, India
- Marius Vieth, Germany
Smile
- Gultekin Alkurt, Turkey
- Atif Amin, Afghanistan
- Jaydip Bhattacharya, India
- Alex Ingle, United Kingdom
- Jack Lawson, United Kingdom
- Kajan Madrasmail, Singapore
- Hendra Permana, Indonesia
- MD Tanveer Rohan, Bangladesh
- Julien Taub, France
- Peter Voss, Germany
Split Second
- Khairel Anuar Che Ani, Malaysia
- Chaiyot Chanyam, Thailand
- Mark Fulinara, United States
- Dmitry Ivanov, Russia
- Philip Joyce, United Kingdom
- Franck Tridon, France
- Petra Van Borm, Belgium
- Cheung Yin Fang, Malaysia
Travel
- Abhijit Banerjee, India
- Tugo Cheng, Hong Kong
- Simone Cmoon, Switzerland
- Ralph Gräf, Germany
- Lesley Hall, United Kingdom
- Nick Kontostavlakis, Greece
- Anasuya Mandal, India
- Adriano Neves, Portugal
- Andrej Tarfila, Slovenia
- Tan Jia Yi, Malaysia
YOUTH COMPETITION
Open to photographers aged 19 and under, judged by the World Photography Organisation.
Culture
- Zhu Lin Ch’ng, Malaysia
- Sepehr Jamshidi Fard, Iran
- Julia Golubov, Canada
- Anna Jolly, United Kingdom
- Jason Liu, Canada
- Leena Meyers, Germany
- Ramadhan Sinclair, Malaysia
- Zohaib Tariq, Pakistan
- Agung Krisna Wibawa, Indonesia (shortlisted twice in this category)
Environment
- Charlie Burr, United States
- Giorgio Granata, Italy
- Jiaye Li, China
- Lake Lewis, United States
- Kumail Rizvi, Pakistan
- Anais Stupka, Italy
- Michael Theodric, Indonesia
- Ekaterina Yashchenko, Russia
- Hongbo Zhu, China
Portraits
- Wai Lam Cheng, Hong Kong
- Sam Delaware, United States
- Ahmed Gaber, Egypt
- Arno Goetz, United States
- Thomas Hanks, United Kingdom
- Gina Ienopoli, United States
- Shahzad Khan, Pakistan
- Ivana Pejak, Serbia
- Talia Rudofsky, United Kingdom
- Aaliyah Snider, United States