Last Updated on 03/20/2018 by Mark Beckenbach
The best single images in the world are finally unveiled in this year’s Sony World Photography awards.
Out of hundreds of thousands of entries from around the world, the 10 Open category winners and 63 National Awards recipients of this year’s Sony World Photography Awards are finally announced. With submissions in diverse subject matters, this year’s competition garnered an interesting collection of images that reflect a good variety in exemplary photography.
The winning entries for the Open categories were selected by an expert panel of judges and deemed worthy of the distinction as the very best single photographs in the world in 10 categories. Meanwhile, the National Awards program recognizes and rewards the best single image taken by local photographers from nearly 70 countries. It’s also interesting to note that many of the winning photographs in this year’s selection were taken by non-professional photographers.
The Open category winners are:
Architecture: Andreas Pohl, Germany, The Man and the Mysterious Tower
Culture: Panos Skordas, Greece, Young Minotaur
Enhanced: Klaus Lenzen, Germany, Every Breath you Take
Landscape & Nature: Veselin Atanasov, Bulgaria, Early Autumn
Motion: Fajar Kristianto, Indonesia, The Highest Platform
Portraiture: Nick Dolding, United Kingdom, Emile
Still Life: Richard Frishman, United States, Sunday Buffet at Jerry Mikeska’s BBQ; Columbus, Texas 2017
Street Photography: Manuel Armenis, Germany, Old Friends
Travel: Mikkel Beiter, Denmark, Shapes of Lofoten
Wildlife: Justuna Zduńczyk, Poland, An Unexpected Meeting
The full list of the 63 National Awards winners can be viewed at https://www.worldphoto.org/2018-national-awards.
Open, Still Life
Open, Enhanced
Open, Architecture
Open, Culture
Open, Wildlife
Open, Architecture
Open, Street Photography
Open, Portraiture
Open, Landscape & Nature
Open, Motion
All the winners of the Open category and National Award will receive the latest digital equipment from Sony. Their photos will also be published in a dedicated book for this year’s competition, and showcased at the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition in London from April 20 – May 6. The winning Open category photographers will also be competing to bag the Open Photographer of the Year title, plus a prize of $5,000. The winner of this competition will be announced on April 19, alongside the winners of the Professional categories.
For its 11th edition, the Sony World Photography Awards produced by the World Photography Organisation received a record-breaking 320,000 entries from photographers in over 200 countries and territories. Find out more about the Sony World Photography Awards at the World Photography Organisation’s official website.