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Sony World Photo Awards Announces Best Single Images
20 March 2018
The Sony World Photography Awards has announced the winners of its Open competition and National Awards.
Richard Frishman. (U.S.), Open Still Life category and USA National Award.
Nick Dolding. (UK), Open Portraiture category and UK National Award.
Justyna Zdunczyk, Fajar Kristianto. Zundczyk (Poland), Open Wildlife and Poland National Award; Kristianto (Indonesia), Open Motion and Indonesia National Award.
"Judging the Open competition and National Awards allowed me to discover high calibre international work of great interest. In choosing the winners, the images all had to have something special -- whether it be composition, impact, skill, a portrayal of a unique event or informing in a new way. Above all else, each winner had to be an exceptional photograph," said Zelda Cheatle, chair of judges, Open, Youth & National Awards.
OPEN CATEGORY WINNERS
The 10 Open category winners were chosen by an expert panel of judges as the world's best single photographs. The 10 Open winners are:
- Architecture: Andreas Pohl (Germany)
- Culture: Panos Skordas (Greece)
- Enhanced: Klaus Lenzen (Germany)
- Landscape & Nature: Veselin Atanasov (Bulgaria)
- Motion: Fajar Kristianto (Indonesia)
- Portraiture: Nick Dolding (Britain)
- Still Life: Richard Frishman (U.S.)
- Street Photography: Manuel Armenis (Germany)
- Travel: Mikkel Beiter (Denmark)
- Wildlife: Justuna Zdunczyk (Poland)
NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS
Running across nearly 70 countries, the National Awards program honors the best single image taken by a local photographer. Visit the ~2018 National Awards! page to view all National Awards images.
For more information see the news release below.
World's Best Single Images Revealed by The Sony World Photography Awards
Winners of the 10 Open categories, plus all 63 National Awards has announced
Selected from hundreds of thousands of entries worldwide, the winners of the Open competition and National Awards of the Sony World Photography Awards are has announced.
The 10 Open category winners were chosen by an expert panel of judges as the world's very best single photographs and the National Awards winners selected as the strongest single image taken by a local photographer across nearly 70 countries. The winning works and their photographers are truly international, with images coming from Australia, Argentina, Cambodia, China, Kenya, Saudi Arabia and beyond.
Subject matter across the photographs could also not have been more diverse. Photographers chose a variety of stunning landscapes, personal portraits, touching encounters and sporting moments as their inspiration.
"Judging the Open competition and National Awards allowed me to discover high calibre international work of great interest. In choosing the winners, the images all had to have something special -- whether it be composition, impact, skill, a portrayal of a unique event or informing in a new way. Above all else, each winner had to be an exceptional photograph," said Zelda Cheatle, chair of judges, Open, Youth & National Awards.
All Open category and National Award winners receive the latest digital imaging equipment from Sony. In addition, the winning work will be published in the Awards' book and shown at the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition in London from April 20 -- May 6 alongside the work of all the Awards' winning, shortlisted and commended photographers.
The 10 Open category winners will now go on to compete for the Open Photographer of the Year, winning $5,000. This photographer, along with the Professional categories winners, will be announced in London on April 19.
Produced by the World Photography Organisation, the Sony World Photography Awards is the world's most diverse photography competition. The 11th edition saw a record breaking 320,000 submissions by photographers from more than 200 countries and territories, presenting some of the world's finest contemporary photography captured over the past year.
Open Category Winners
Photographers worldwide may enter any of the Open competition's 10 categories, with judges looking for the best single image fitting each categories' brief. Many of the winners are non-professional photographers, making their achievement even more remarkable. The 10 Open winners are:
- Architecture: Andreas Pohl, German with image The Man and the Mysterious Tower
- Culture: Panos Skordas, Greek with image Young Minotaur
- Enhanced: Klaus Lenzen, German with image Every Breath You Take
- Landscape & Nature: Veselin Atanasov, Bulgarian with image Early Autumn
- Motion: Fajar Kristianto, Indonesian with image The Highest Platform
- Portraiture: Nick Dolding, British with image Emile
- Still Life: Richard Frishman, American with image Sunday Buffet at Jerry Mikeska's BBQ; Columbus, Texas 2017
- Street Photography: Manuel Armenis, German with image Old Friends
- Travel: Mikkel Beiter, Danish with image Shapes of Lofoten
- Wildlife: Justuna Zdunczyk, Polish with image An Unexpected Meeting
National Award winners
Running across nearly 70 countries, the National Awards program seeks to recognise and reward the best single image taken by a local photographer. Click here to view all National Awards images.