The following video presents Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA) 2016 Introduction:
“One Single Shot, a whole new perspective.”
This is an update to these previous blogs:
Sony World Photography Awards 2016 Exhibition
PRESS RELEASE
Shortlist revealed for 2016 Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s biggest photography competition
Feb 23, 2016 00:01 GMT
- Record number of entries – 230,103 images, 33% increase on 2015
- Entries from 186 countries – the most in the awards’ history
- Over 1 million images entered since launch in 2007
- Images to be shown at Somerset House, London 22nd April – 8th May
- Overall winners revealed 21st April
- Images available for publication at press.worldphoto.org
“I was moved by the depth of passion and commitment the photographers show to society through their work” – Dominique Green, Chair, Documentary Jury
The 2016 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s biggest photography competition, organised by the World Photography Organisation, today announces the shortlists for its Professional, Open and Youth competitions.
This year’s shortlist is defined by its sheer internationality, with over 270 photographers from nearly 60 countries being represented, the most in the awards’ nine-year history. Also significant was the substantial growth in the Professional competition, with entries up 45% on 2015.
A record-breaking 230,103 images were entered into the Professional, Open and Youth competitions from 186 countries. The total number of entries received by the Sony World Photography Awards since its launch has now surpassed 1 million images, reinforcing the awards’ position as one of the most respected and influential photography competitions in the world.
Recognising the best contemporary photography from 2015, the Honorary Jury, chaired by Dominque Green (Consultant, UK) and Sue Steward (Writer/ Curator, UK), have identified exceptional work by both emerging talent and seasoned photographers from all corners of the world.
Originality and a strong sense of empathy stood out for the judges across the shortlist. From the thousands of submissions, subtle themes also appeared for the judges – the delicate handling of intimate, private moments by photographers; the capturing of the major public stories dominating the news, from the conflict in the Ukraine to the endless lines of refuges in search of a better life in Europe; and the use of new technology to create work, including drone and underwater photography.
Included on the 2016 shortlist are those familiar to the awards: Christian Aslund (Sweden, winner 2013); Ed Kashi (United States, shortlist, 2013); David Chancellor (United Kingdom, shortlist 2011 and 2nd place 2012); Espen Rasmussen (Norway, shortlist 2010 and 2011); Jonathan Carvajal (Colombia, shortlist, 2015); Julia Fullerton-Batten (United Kingdom, shortlisted 2015); Ruben Salgado Escudero (Spain, winner 2015) and Fan Li (China, winner 2015).
All shortlisted photographers across the three competitions are listed below.
Scott Gray, CEO of the World Photography Organisation and organiser of the awards comments: “We are extremely pleased with our jurors’ choices this year. Despite the increase in the number of photographers, and the amount of imagery that required judging, this year above all others we have witnessed a wealth of powerful imagery in the traditionally strong social documentary categories as well as the art and conceptual work. It is wonderful for the medium that it can offer such rich diversity.”
Those in the awards’ Professional categories will now compete for a $25,000 prize and the L’Iris d’Or/ Photographer of the Year title. The recipient, along with the winners of the Professional categories, overall Youth and Student winners plus the Open Photographer of the Year, who receives a $5,000 prize, will all be announced at the Sony World Photography Awards Gala Ceremony in London Thursday 21st April. All winners will receive the latest digital imaging equipment from Sony.
The winning and shortlisted images will go on show at Somerset House, London from 22nd April – 8th May and published in the 2016 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards book. To book your exhibition ticket, please visit: worldphoto.org/2016exhibition
The exhibition will also include the first major European exhibition of the artistic duo andfine art photographers RongRong & inri, recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award. RongRong (China) & inri (Japan) have shaped contemporary photography in Asia and are being recognised for both their careers as artists and their significant impact on Asian photography. The exhibition will include new works from their critically acclaimed series Tsumari Story.
- Images from the shortlist are available to download at press.worldphoto.org
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For further information please contact:
Jill Cotton, Senior Press Manager / Kristine Bjørge, PR Managerpress@worldphoto.org / +44 (0) 20 7886 3043
Sony World Photography Awards forthcoming announcements
- 1st March – Student Focus shortlist revealed
- 15th March – National Award winners revealed (best single shot taken by a photographer of that country, 60 countries involved)
- 29th March – Open and Youth category winners announced
- 21st April – Professional/Open/Student/Youth Photographers of the Year announced plus Professional category winners
- 22nd April – 8th May – exhibition at Somerset House, London
2016 JudgesThe Professional competition of the Sony World Photography Awards is judged annually by the Honorary Jury.
The Open, Youth, National Awards and Student Focus competitions are judged by separate juries of industry professionals.
Professional competition
Art Jury (Architecture, Candid, Conceptual, Landscape, Portrait, Staged and Still Life categories)
- Sue Steward (Chair), Writer and Photography Curator, UK
- Karen Knorr, Photographer and Professor, University for the Creative Arts, US/UK
- Jean Jacques Naudet, Editorial Director, L’Oeil de la Photographie, France
- Mariko Takeuchi, Photography Critic, Curator and Associate Professor of Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan
Documentary Jury (Campaign, Current Affairs, Contemporary Issues, Daily Life, Environment, People and Sport categories)
- Dominique Green (Chair), Consultant, UK
- Emma Lynch, Picture Editor, BBC Global News website, UK
- Julien Jourdes, Co-Founder & Coo, Blink.la, US
- Fiona Rogers, Global Business Development Manager, Magnum Photos, UK
Open Competition
- Jael Marschner (Chair), Former Picture Editor of Time Out and the Sunday Times Travel Magazine, UK
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/Neutral Grey, 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
FURTHER NOTES
About World Photography Organisation The World Photography Organisation is a home where photography is celebrated and the art of the photographer is recognised. Working with professional, enthusiast and student photographers alike, the World Photography Organisation provides a global platform across the photographic industry to not only to raise the level of conversation around the subject, but to increase awareness and appreciation of this artform. The World Photography Organisation hosts a year-round portfolio of industry and public events including: the Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s largest photography competition and accompanying global exhibition; the World Photography Organisation Student Focus Programme, inspiring and working with the next generation of photographers, Photo Shanghai, Asia Pacific’s premier art fair dedicated to photography, and Photo San Francisco, America’s new international art fair for contemporary photography. For more information please visit www.worldphoto.org
About Sony Corporation
Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, imaging, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and online businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be the leading electronics and entertainment company in the world. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $68 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015. Sony Global Web Site: http://www.sony.net/
About Somerset House
A unique part of the London cultural scene, Somerset House is an historic building where surprising and original work comes to life. From its 18th century origins, Somerset House has been a centre for debate and discussion – an intellectual powerhouse for the nation. Somerset House is today a key cultural destination in London in which to experience a broad range of artistic activity, engage with artists, designers and makers and be a part of a major creative forum – an environment that is relaxed, welcoming to all and inspirational to visit while providing a stimulating workplace for the cultural and creative industries. Since its opening in 2000, Somerset House has built up a distinctive outdoor public programme including Skate, concerts, an open-air film season and a diverse range of temporary exhibitions throughout the site focusing on contemporary culture, with an extensive learning programme attached.
We are now home to the biggest community of creative organisations in central London including the The Courtauld Gallery and Institute of Art, King’s College London Cultural Institute and over 100 other creative businesses. We currently attract approximately 2.5 million visitors
