© Alex Goh Chun Seong courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2011
“This group of children was having a blast splashing about in the waterfall. With their melodious laughter permeating the air, even I could not resist the temptation of joining them in their merry fun.”
The shortlist for the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards was announced today, Tuesday, February 1, 2011. With a Professional competition spanning the three genres of Photojournalism & Documentary, Fine Art and Commercial, and an Open competition for photographers of all abilities, the Sony World Photography Awards is the most comprehensive photographic competition in the world today. The shortlist images were selected from 53,223 Professional category submissions and 51,878 Open category photography submissions from 162 countries.
Four Canadian photographers were honoured in the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards:
• Ana Cop (Finalist in Conceptual Category)
• Matt Coppin (Open Shortlisted in Arts & Culture Category)
• Andrzej Maciejewski (Shortlisted in Still Life Category)
• Christopher Martin (Open Shortlisted in Travel Category)
PRESS RELEASE
Sony World Photography Awards 2011
Shortlist announced
www.worldphoto.org
The shortlist for the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards is announced today, Tuesday 1 February. With a Professional competition spanning the three genres of Photojournalism & Documentary, Fine Art and Commercial, and an Open competition for photographers of all abilities, the Sony World Photography Awards is the most comprehensive photographic competition in the world today.
The shortlist for this year’s Professional competition was selected by the Honorary Judging Committee, comprising world-renowned figures from the international photographic industry including photographers, picture editors, agents and critics. The jury, who came together in London to make their selection, was chaired by the British photography critic Francis Hodgson. The winners will be announced on 27 April.
© Chan Kwok Hung courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2011
“Taken in Myanmar, teenage monks playing football after school, even it’s raining!”
The 2011 competition has attracted more submissions than ever before, reaching all corners of the globe, with over 105,000 entries from 162 counties. The shortlist includes a number of winners and finalists from previous years including Amit Madheshiya, Peter Frank, Denis Rouvre , Giulio Di Sturco and Tommaso Bonaventura.
Astrid Merget, Creative Director of the World Photography Organisation commented on the Professional award selections: “This has been an extraordinary year for the competition. With the highest number of entries since the awards were founded, we are clearly reaching a vast international community of photographers. Even so, the honorary jury continues to push the level of quality accepted into the shortlist extremely high, selecting only the best. All within the shortlist should certainly be very pleased with their accomplishment.”
Francis Hodgson, Chair of the Honorary Judging Committee, added: “It is remarkable that a suite of awards with such a broad reach produces imagery of such quality, but it does. Submissions came from across the photographic spectrum, and it was obvious that the judging panel would meet a great deal of variety. But we met vigour, too, and that was perhaps less to be expected. It is pleasing to be able to report that the photography we saw was not only made with great photographic skill; it showed great communication skills as well, and that, surely, when all is said and done, is the point.”
In the Professional competition there are 15 categories within the three subject genres: Photojournalism & Documentary (Current Affairs, Contemporary Issues, People, Arts & Culture and Sport); Commercial (Campaign, Travel, Lifestyle, Still Life and Fashion) and Fine Art (Architecture, Portraiture, Landscape, Still Life and Conceptual).
There are ten categories in the Open competition for anyone with an interest in photography. They are: Action, After Dark, Architecture, Arts & Culture, Fashion, Nature & Wildlife, Panoramic, People, Smile and Travel. This year the Open entries were judged by a pre-selection committee of inspectors from iStockphoto. The category winners and the overall Sony World Photography Awards Open Photographer of the Year will be chosen by the final selection jury comprising Francis Hodgson, Andrew Saunders, Vice President, Creative Imagery, Getty Images; Joseph Jean Rolland Dubé, Vice President, Content Development, iStockphoto; Yann Salmon-Legagneur (Sony Europe Marketing -DSLR) and Paul Genge (Sony UK Technical Marketing – DSLR).
Of the Open competition, Joseph Jean Rolland Dubé, comments: “This is iStock’s third year in reviewing these open entries. The competition is getting more fierce every year and the best images are the epitome of creativity and skill. Congrats to the World Photography Organisation for compelling such amazing entries and let there be such a venue dedicated to raw talent for years to come.”
The Sony World Photography Awards winners will be showcased as part of the World Photography Festival and Exhibitions at Somerset House in London. With an emphasis on creating a social networking and meeting place for photographers, the festival programme, which runs from 26 April to 1 May, promises an eclectic mix of talks, screenings, portfolio reviews, peer critiques and workshops, led by many of our internationally renowned Academy Members. The Sony World Photography Awards winners’ exhibition will stay open until 22 May 2011. Tickets to the festival and exhibition are available via www.worldphoto.org from 4 February 2011.
The winners of the Professional categories will be announced on Thursday 27 April at the Sony World Photography Awards ceremony. For the first time this will be held at the Odeon Leicester Square in London having been in Cannes, France in previous years. Also on the night, the winner of the coveted L’Iris D’Or / Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year, will be announced. They will receive $25,000 and professional Sony camera equipment. The overall winner of the Open competition will receive a $5,000 cash prize as well as Sony camera equipment. The final presentation of the night will be in honour of the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography.
A number of tickets to the Sony World Photography Awards ceremony will be available to the public. Tickets, starting at £22, are available via www.worldphoto.org from 4 February.
Key dates
| 4 February | Tickets for Sony World Photography Awards and World Photography Festival go on sale |
| 8 March | Outstanding Contribution to Photography Announced |
| 22 March | Open competition category winners announced |
| 27 April | Gala awards ceremony at Odeon Leicester Square in London. Announcement of Professional category winners, Open competition Photographer of the Year, and L’Iris D’Or / Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year |
| 26 April – 22 May | World Photography Awards Festival (26 April – 1 May) and Exhibition at Somerset House |
Professional shortlisted photographers
In each category the judges could select up to three finalist photographers and up to
seven additional shortlist photographers. From the finalists, the winners plus 2nd and 3rd
place will be chosen and announced at the awards ceremony on 27 April.
Photographers are listed alphabetically.
PHOTOJOURNALISM & DOCUMENTARY
Honorary judging committee: Chair, Elisabeth Biondi (US), Visuals Editor, The New Yorker Magazine; Pedro Meyer (Mexico), photographer and founder of ZoneZero; Stephen
Mayes (US), Managing Director, VII Photo Agency; Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan), awardwinning
social documentary photographer.
© Javier Arcenillas / Galeria ARANAPOVEDA _ courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2011
The Rohingya, a Muslim minority population in Myanmar, have fled severe repression and persecution in their homeland and sought refuge in Bangladesh and other neighboring countries for more than 50 years. Sadly, few find the assistance they desperately need and instead are forced to survive in huge makeshift camps with little or no basic amenities, including food or water.The MSF clinic at Kutupalong, originally intended to deliver basic healthcare to children under five years old and to treat the high levels of global acute malnutrition in the camp, has become a haven for those exhausted by what is happening. In June 2009, an MSF team had to set up an emergency health intervention in the camp because the situation has spiraled out of control.
Current Affairs
Finalists:
- Javier Arcenillas (Spain)
- Robin Hammond (New Zealand) / Panos Pictures
- Ahmad Masood, (Afghanistan) / Reuters
Shortlisted:
- Filip Daniel (Poland)
- William Daniels (France)
- Adam Dean (United Kingdom)
- Giulio Di Sturco (Italy)
- Emiliano Larizza (Italy)
- Angelos Tzortzinis (Greece)
Contemporary Issues
Finalists:
- Javier Arcenillas (Spain)
- Balazs Gardi (Hungary) / basetrack.org
- Christian Lutz (Switzerland) / Agence VU
Shortlisted:
- David Chancellor (United Kingdom)
- Sebastian Liste (Spain)
- Anastasia Taylor-Lind (United Kingdom)
- Riccardo Venturi (Spain)
People
Finalists:
- Alejandro Chaskielberg (Argentina)
© Michael Hoppen Gallery - Lucia Herrero (Spain)
- Denis Rouvre (France)
Shortlisted:
- Mathieu Asselin (France)
- Jodi Bieber (South Africa)
- Tommaso Bonaventura (Italy)
- Espen Rasmussen (Norway)
- Martin Roemers (Netherlands)
- Alnis Stakle (Latvia) / Photographer ru
- Hormis Tharakan (India)
Sport
Finalists:
- Javier Arcenillas (Spain)
- Palmer + Pawel (United Kingdom)
- Pavel Wolberg (Israel)
Shortlisted:
- Dilip Bhatia (India)
- Alexey Bushov (Russian Federation)
- Viktor Fischer (Czech Republic)
- Radek Kalhous (Czech Republic)
- Alex Kudenko (Russian Federation)
- Vladimir Pomortsev (Russian Federation)
- Bernd Seydel (Germany)
Arts and Culture
Finalists:
- Tommaso Bonaventura (Italy)
- Amit Madheshiya (India)
- Mahesh Shantaram (India)
Shortlisted:
- Jacek Świerczyński (Poland)
- Fabio Cuttica (Italy)
- William Daniels (France)
- Radek Kalhous (Czech Republic)
- Spencer Murphy (United Kingdom)
- Wojciech Grzedzinski Bartek Sadowski (Poland)
- Les Slesnick (United States)
COMMERCIAL
Honorary judging committee: Chair, Mike Trow (UK), Photo Editor, British Vogue; RJ Muna (US), photographer; Terri Manducca (UK), photographers’ agent; Elizabeth
Zeschin (UK), photographer.
© Tong Meng _ courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2011
Campaign
Finalists:
- Richard Bailey (United Kingdom)
- Adam Hinton (United Kingdom) © Wyatt Clark Jones Agency
- Tomg Meng (China)
© Helen Doick courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2011
Shortlisted:
- Kaveh Baghdadchi (Iran)
- Helen de Vries (Netherlands)
- Helen Doick (Australia)
- Fernando Bayona Gonzãlez (Spain)
- Anke Luckmann (Germany)
- Gustavo Millon (Chile)
- Dzmitry Rusak (Belarus)
Travel
Finalists:
- Javier Arcenillas (Spain)
- Andrew McConnell (Ireland) / Panos Pictures
- Liz Loh-Taylor (Australia)
© Celia de Coca courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2011
Images Published in the CIWEM Magazine December 2010 edition Aerial shots from a helicopter flying over the dry Castilla La Mancha Region in Spain. Olive trees and fields waiting to be seeded.
Shortlisted:
- Gmb Akash (Bangladesh)
- Celia de Coca (Spain)
- Charlie Mahoney (United States)
- Raza Milani (Iran)
- Jehad Nga (United States)
- Aga Pajor (Poland)
- Helmut Wachtarczyk (Germany)
Lifestyle
Finalists:
- Frank Bayh & Steff Rosenberger-Ochs (Germany)
- Fabrizio Cestari (Italy)
- Saja Seus (Germany)
Shortlisted:
- Radek Burda (Czech Republic)
- Lukas Maximilian Hueller (Austria)
- Tanya Ilina (Russia)
- Alessandro Puccinelli (Italy)
- Thomas Steuer (Germany)
- Zbigniew Szczerbetka (Poland)
- Izabela Urbaniak (Poland)
© Joel Devlin courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2011
Still Life
Shortlisted:
- Joel Devlin (united Kingdom)
- Adrian Samson (United Kingdom)
- Carsten Klein (Germany)
- Alessandro Puccinelli (Italy)
- Julia Unkel (Germany)
© Martina Giammaria courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2011
Tyger! Tygers! is inspired by the work of W. Blake and by a novel written by the fashion designer Chiara Aversano. Its the story of a girl that turns into a moth.
Fashion
Shortlisted:
- Liam Arthur (United Kingdom)
- Marcus Bleasdale (Norway)
- Patrizia Doubek (United Kingdom)
- Martina Giammaria (Italy)
- Tobias Hutzler (United States)
- Dejan Kutic (Croatia)
- Adrian Loh (Singapore)
- Elizaveta Porodina (Germany)
- Tomasz Slupski (Poland)
- Jack Younger (Australia)
FINE ART
Honorary judging committee: Chair, Francis Hodgson (UK) Photo Critic, Financial Times; Liu Heung Shing (Beijing), Author and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer; Julia Fullerton-
Batten (Germany/UK), an established photographer with a worldwide reputation.
Architecture
Finalists:
- Frank + Steff Bayh +Rosenberger-Ochs (Germany)
- Frank Meyl (Germany)
- Alnis Stakle (Latvia)
Shortlisted:
- Marcus Buck (Germany)
- Bayerl Günther (Germany)
Portraiture
Finalists:
- Alain Willaume (France)
- David Kretschmer (Germany)
- Paolo Verzone (Italy) / Agence VU
Shortlisted:
- Liam Arthur (United Kingdom)
- Abel Ruiz de Leon Trespando (Spain)
- Bogdan Gîrbovan (Romania)
- Kai-Uwe Gundlach (Germany)
- Amir Hossein Keihani (Islamic Republic of Iran)
- Haylee Lee (Republic of Korea)
- Leonardo Liberman (Argentina)
Landscape
Finalists :
- Florence Iff (Switzerland)
- Guido Castagnoli (Italy) / Periscope-Creative Berlin
- Frank Day (United States)
Shortlisted:
- Misha Japaridze (Greece)
- Alexander Gronsky (Latvia)
- Marissa Rocke (United States)
- Thomas Steuer (Germany)
- Daniel Traub (United States)
- Aleksandra Wojcik (United Kingdom)
Still Life
Finalists:
- Charles Emerson (United Kingdom)
- Peter Franck (Germany)
- Renhui Zhao (Singapore)
© Andrzej Maciejewski courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2011
Still Life with 4024(USA), 4025(USA), 4049 (Honduras), 4410(USA) and 4026(USA).
The Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden is a series of still-life photographs of fruits and vegetables. They are inspired by famous old masters’ paintings, but they picture our modern fruits from chain supermarkets with labels on them or wrapped in foil. This is a continuation of an artistic tradition, but also a comment on the paradise we created for ourselves: on one hand we have an easy life and an access to all the abundance of the world, on the other we are being cut off from the nature and there are multiple issues arising from our lifestyle, from ecological issues through concerns about globalization versus tradition, to Third World poverty. The photographs were taken on 4×5 colour slides. This series is a work in progress, started in 2010.
Shortlisted:
- Kirill Golovchenko (Germany)
- Olaf Kreinsen (Germany)
- Andrzej Maciejewski (Canada)
- Goutal / Leriche Vincent / Olivia (France)
- Jasper White (United Kingdom)
© Ana Cop _ courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2011
color digital photography
Reclining nudes here and now
“Reclining nudes here and now” By and endurance in order to succeed and find her spot in depicting a sensual, goddess like woman figure as a stone statue, juxtaposed with the geometry and angularity of the modern city. “Reclining nudes here and now” denotes the female strength modern society, the society we live in, the world of different social values reflected in its appearance, and consumerism, full of tensions and ironies. The project continues my explorations into states of beauty, desire and spiritual longing in the modern consumer orientated world. It is here as a defender of human qualities of life containing nostalgic memories of the past, and to exemplify ideals of harmony… (for full Series Description contact Colman Getty, jill@colmangetty.co.uk)
Conceptual
Finalists:
- Ana Cop (Canada)
- Zhongyin Gao (China)
- Paul Gisbrecht (Germany)
© Vincent Vittecoq_courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2011
shadow story in the street. the models are universal bodies. the audience takes part and recognizes itself in the casting: as a victim, contravener or passerby. for more courage!
Shortlisted:
- Meghan Boody (United States)
- Isaac Contreras (Mexico)
- Nerea Martinez de Lecea (United Kingdom)
- Mark French (United Kingdom)
- Vincent Vittecoq (Germany)
- Malaïka Weber (Switzerland)
Open shortlisted photographers
In each category judges were able to select up to ten images.
© Chan Kwok Hung courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2011
“This photo was taken in Indonesia, farmers will held the buffalo race before the farming season every year, they believe will be luck if their buffalo win the race.”
Action
- Robert Günthe (Germany)
- Chan Kwok Hung (Hong Kong) (two entries)
- James Kydd (South Africa)
- Federico Modica (Italy)
- Anton Mukhametchin (Russian Federation)
- Stanislaw Pytel (Poland)
- Huu Tri Tran (France)
- Alex Goh Chun Seong (Malaysia)
- Lee Sie (United States)
After Dark
- Aneek Anwar (Bangladesh)
- Juergen Buergin (Germany)
- Marcos Calamato (United States)
- Atle Gaarder (Sweden)
- Kostadin Luchansky (Angola)
- Chumlong Nilkon (Thailand)
- Dael Oates (United States)
- Bibek Paul (India)
- L. Ranieri Jr)Iberê (Brazil)
- Ekaterina Solovieva (Germany)
Architecture
- Urs Albrecht (Switzerland)
- Rob Cherry (United Kingdom)
- Rafal Marcinkiewicz (United Kingdom)
- Andras Neiser (Finland)
- Alexander Ossia (Germany)
- Bjoern Pretzel (Germany)
- Marc Siewior (Germany)
- Marek Troszczynski (United Kingdom)
- Reginald Van de Velde (Belgium)
- Wolfgang Weinhardt (Germany)
© Matt Coppin courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2011
“The Flaming Lips during the 2008 Pemberton Festival.”
Arts & Culture
- Aislinn Clifford (United Kingdom)
- Matt Coppin (Canada)
- Hubert Januar (Indonesia)
- Veselina Kertikova (China)
- Piotr Krysiak (Poland)
- Samarendranath Mandal (India)
- Javier Martin (Spain)
- Susana Righi (Argentina)
- Ollie Smith (United Kingdom)
- Alam Syah (Indonesia)
Fashion
- Marina Adyrkhaeva (Russian Federation)
- Gde Wira Brahmana (Indonesia)
- Stefania Cruceru (Romania)
- Edina Csoboth (Hungary)
- Nick FitzPatrick (Australia)
- Tomek Jankowski (Poland)
- William Lukaitis (Australia)
- Kimberley Mennen (Australia)
- Jaroslav Svoboda (Czech Republic)
- Madalina Toderascu (Romania)
© Antoine Beyeler courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2011
“This is as kitsch a bear as it gets, but real ice, real sky and, most importantly, real *wild* polar bear in its actual habitat. Svalbard.”
Nature & Wildlife
- Alex Bernasconi (Italy)
- Antoine Beyeler (Switzerland)
- Stephan Fürnrohr (Germany)
- Cedric Favero (Switzerland)
- Andiyan Lutfi (Indonesia)
- Luca Neve (United Kingdom)
- Dmitry Miroshnikov (Russian Federation)
- Kieran O’Connor (Australia)
- Nenad Saljic (Croatia)
- Tanja Zech (Germany)
© Andrew Scriven courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2011
“This magical scene was shot in January 2010 from the top of a glacier on the shores of the Antarctica Peninsula. The 3-mast tea clipper in the foreground allows the observer to appreciate the wondrous scale of the landscape in which it majestically floats. It looks like a toy ship next to the glaciers. It was a blissfully peaceful moment.”
Panoramic
- Rana Harfoush (Egypt)
- Anton Hazewinkel (China)
- Fabian Sixtus Körner (Germany)
- Gareth Kingdon (United Kingdom)
- David Millard (United Kingdom)
- Andrew Scriven (United Kingdom)
- Sergiu Sechel (Romania)
- Jadranko Silic (Australia)
- Ignacio Tejerina (Spain)
- Wolfgang Weinhardt (Germany)
© Gundega Sundew courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2011
People
- Danny Cohen (Australia)
- Peter Dazeley (United Kingdom)
- Paul Dooley (United Kingdom)
- Chan Kwok Hung (Hong Kong)
- Kal Khogali (Belgium)
- Katerina Lomonosov (Israel)
- Petar Popovic (Croatia)
- Eugene Reshetov (United States)
- Raghuranjan Sarkar (India)
- Gundega Sundew (Latvia)
© Pascal Fiechter courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2011
“This unpayable moment was happen at Thiruvalluvar Nagar Beach near Chennai, Tamil Nadu / India.”
(This priceless moment occurred at Thiruvalluvar Nagar Beach near Chennai, Tamil Nadu / India. )
Smile
- Domenico Chiapperini (Netherlands)
- James Chong (Singapore)
- Pascal Fiechter (Switzerland)
- Arup Ghosh (India)
- Christoph Herby (Benin)
- Martin Hudak (Slovakia)
- Prasad Mahale (India)
- Carlos Henrique Reinesch (Brazil)
- Syaza Mohammed Shakharulain (Malaysia)
- Viktorija Vaisvilaite Skirutiene (Lithuania)
© Yap Wai Leong courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2011
“Established in 1880, the Taiping Lake Garden is one of the oldest garden in Malaysia.”
Travel
- James Chong (Singapore)
- Valarie Curty (Switzerland)
- Sauro Fiorani (Italy)
- David Lazar (Australia)
- Yap Wai Leong (Malaysia)
- Glenn Losack MD (United States)
- Christopher Martin (Canada)
- Nara Pratama (Indonesia)
- Saeed Salem (Saudi Arabia)
- Wolfgang Weinhardt (Germany)
© Christopher Martin courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2011
Monks in Silhouette
“Five monks standing on U Bein bridge in Amarapura in Myanmar at sunset.”