罢丑别听听opens at Somerset House, London. It showcases work by the听Grand Prize winners, Open category recipients and this year’s National, Professional, Student and Youth selection, alongside images by the听shortlisted and top 50 commended photographers. Drawn from more than 227,000 entries from 183 countries to the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards, these selected images celebrate the discipline’s听ability to capture all walks of life in听a variety of categories including听Architecture, Daily life, Documentary, Landscape, Portraiture, Sports, Street Photography and Wildlife.
It was announced at a ceremony yesterday evening that Belgian photographer Frederik Buyckx has been named Photographer of the Year 2017, winning $25,000 for best photography series. Whiteout听captures the isolated habitat of people living听in the Balkans, Scandinavia and Central Asia. In the Open competition, Russian artist听Alexander Vinogradov’s beautifully simplistic portrait,听Mathilda, won the best single shot award and was named Open Photographer of the Year. Alongside the Grand Prize winners, the exhibition will also feature a special dedication to Martin Parr, recipient of the Awards鈥 Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize.
Category winners from the听Open competition include Alessandra Meniconzi’s striking听wildlife shot of flamingos in Walvis Bay, Namibia, and Hiroshi Tanita’s documentation of the听ice blue and white of winter. Humans and their habitats are rediscovered in Jianguo Gong’s听image of 1300 people practicing Tai-Chi in China and Tim Cornbill’s symmetrical shot of听architecture in Berlin. A crucial goal-scoring moment in an underwater rugby match is photographed by Camilo Diaz, and a subtle palette of colour is used in images听by Lise Johansson听补苍诲 Ralph Gr盲f. Lastly, Street Photography category winner, Constantinos Sofikitis, captures the urban landscape in black and white.
In the听Professional competition, Buyckx won the听Landscape category, putting him in the running for Photographer of the Year alongside George Mayer for Portraiture and Yuan Peng for Sport, while听the听National Awards saw an increase in participating countries with works from newcomers Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates. Youth Photographer of the Year went to 16-year old Katelyn Wang and the Student Photographer of the Year was awarded to听Michelle Daiana Gentile, aged 21, for her series Only Hope.
The 2017 Exhibition will also host a series of听events and talks with Martin Parr and听other industry experts, covering a broad range of subjects and discussions.听Parr, known internationally as the听鈥渃hronicler of our age鈥 is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation. With over 90 books of his own published, and another 30 edited by Parr, his legacy is firmly established. The artist’s participation in the competition’s programme cements its strong positioning within the professional photographic industry.
This year, the Sony World Photography Awards marks its 10 anniversary. Its winners receive听a total prize fund of $30,000 (USD) along with听the latest Sony digital imaging equipment, and their images听are听provided with international exposure on a year-long tour in major cities worldwide.
The Sony World Photography Awards 2017 Exhibition, until 7 May, Somerset House, London.
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1.听Lise Johansson, Open Enhanced Category winner, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Sony World Photography Awards.
