Todays announcement signals an impressive year ahead for the worlds most diverse international photography competition
All shortlisted images available at worldphoto.org/press
Nearly 320,000 images were submitted from across the world, seeing a 140% increase in entries compared to 2017.
Overall winners will be revealed on April 19 2018 (23.00 GMT) and a specially curated exhibition will take place April 20 - May 6 at Somerset House, London.
FEBRUARY 28, 2018: The shortlisted and commended photographers for the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards, the world's most diverse photography competition, are announced today.
Photographers from over 200 countries and territories entered nearly 320,000 images across the Awards' competitions, the highest ever number of entries to date and a 140% increase on 2017. The judges were particularly impressed with the high quality of entries, and the shortlists ability to offer insight into the foremost trends and contemporary concerns of photographers working today.
Produced by the World Photography Organisation, the Sony World Photography Awards are now in the 11th year of partnership with their headline sponsor, Sony. The Awards' shortlist (top 10 per category) and commended list (top 50 per category) comprises some of the world's finest contemporary photography captured over the past year.
The international range of entries display a huge diversity of imagery in terms of genre, style and subject matter across the Awards' 4 competitions: Professional, Open, Youth and Student Focus. The Professional competition includes 10 categories such as Architecture, Contemporary Issues, Landscape, Natural World & Wildlife, Portraiture and two new categories for this year; Creative and Discovery, while the Open competition offers 10 categories including Culture, Enhanced, Motion, Street Photography and Travel.
This year, the Professional competition, which is judged on a series of works, saw an impressive number of entries across its 10 categories. Judges found submissions to be exceptionally strong, particularly across the competitions two new categories - Creative and Discovery. The shortlisted series of works include stylish images of humanity's obsession with wealth to raw images of the Rohingya refugee crisis, through to quirky portraits of dogs and their owners. The photographers will now compete to win their categories, and Photographer of the Year title.
The Open competition, which is judged on a single image, also saw a wide variety of subject matter submitted to its 10 categories, with Street Photography and Landscape and Nature receiving the highest volume of entries. Shortlisted works include beautiful imagery of frozen lakes, sunlit deserts and hidden forests; stunning portraits of faces from around the world, and unique insights in cultures and traditions that might otherwise be unseen. A breadth of Open competition images were awarded Commended' as some of the top 50 works within their categories, ranging from images of industrial power stations and formations of swans, to an evocative image of para-athletes competing in the rain.
All the shortlisted Professional and Open photographers' works will go on to compete to become category winners, with the chance of being selected as Photographer of the Year winning $25,000 (USD) or Open Photographer of the Year winning$5,000 (USD).
The Awards' Youth competition saw a diverse range of entries from 12-19 year old photographers who submitted one image on the theme of my environment', with nearly 8000 more entries submitted compared to the previous year.
Finally, the Student Focus competition saw applications from universities worldwide. Ten shortlisted students from the UK, India, France, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, Canada and China will now go on to produce a further body of work, with the chance of winning 30,000 (Euros) of Sony digital imaging equipment for their university.
The winners of the Awards will be announced at the Awards ceremony in London on April 19.The Photographer of the Year, Open Photographer of the Year, the Professional and Youth competitions' category winners and the ten shortlisted Student Focus entrants will all be flown to London to attend. Category winners will also receive the latest Sony digital imaging equipment and will be included in the 2018 Awards book.
The Sony World Photography Awards are judged anonymously by internationally acclaimed industry professionals. The 2018 Professional competition jury was chaired by Mike Trow (ex Picture Editor, British Vogue) with representatives from international museums, publishing and the media.
Philip Tinari (Judge and Director, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, China)commented:
We were impressed by the depth and diversity of the work that we reviewed, and inspired by the many ways in which photographers around the world are engaging with the issues that face us all.
Naomi Cass (Judge and Director, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia) remarked: The range of work considered was breathtaking, and diversity amongst the judges ensured robust discussions, leading to outstanding winners. I was impressed by the diversity of approaches within each category and the breadth of photographers from across the globe.
Clare Grafik (Judge and Head of Exhibitions, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK) commented: From new approaches to portraiture to creative responses to the landscape in which we live, the images illustrated what a broad and innovative field photography has become. As our way of experiencing photographic images becomes all the more multifarious, the Awards offer us the opportunity to focus on new talents and important projects that may otherwise have passed us by.
Commenting on this year's awards, Scott Gray (CEO, World Photog
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Todays announcement signals an impressive year ahead for the worlds most diverse international photography competition
