The 2009 Sony Campaign Award is a new football photography competition within the Sony World Photography Awards. Amateur photographers are invited to enter the Campaign Award with a single image that captures the beauty and spirit of football in unexpected places. The award is looking for originality amongst the thousands of typical images featured on the sport every year. The closing date for the Sony Campaign Award is 28th February 2009.

Sony World Photography Awards Press Release

The Sony World Photography Awards and photographer Delly Carr put football in the picture

• Internationally renowned sports photographer Delly Carr announced to chair 2009 Sony Campaign Award
• Prize includes tickets to 2010 World Cup game and unique chance to be a Sony photographer
• Competition closing date extended to 28 February 2009

Have you got what it takes to be the next Heinz Kluetmeier? The Sony World Photography Awards - the global competition which honours both professional and amateur photographers - is looking for budding amateur photographers to submit their work to the 2009 Sony Campaign Award.

Joining together a global obsession for football with passion for photography, the Campaign Award seeks to uncover images that transcend beyond the standard snapshot of an action moment and capture the vibrancy, celebration, camaraderie and cultural phenomenon that is football.  Sport has long provided us with some of the most arresting photographic opportunities and, as a sponsor of the UEFA Champions League and the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Sony believes there is no spectacle on Earth that can compare with the rich, colourful, turbo-charged football experience.

Delly Carr, one of the world’s leading and multi award winning sports photographers, will chair the judging panel which will also include Toru Katsumoto, Senior General Manager of Digital Imaging at Sony Corporation, James Kennedy, General Manager of Marketing Communications at Sony Europe and Yoshiyuki Nogami, Vice President of Digital Imaging at Sony Europe

The competition is free to enter and the winner will receive:
• Two VIP tickets to attend the Sony World Photography Awards gala ceremony on the 16th April 2009 in Cannes, France (including flights and two nights’ accommodation in a luxury hotel on the famous Croisette)
• Sony ?900 DSLR camera and lens
• The opportunity to be one of the photographers used in Sony’s forthcoming digital imaging FY09 campaign work
• Two tickets to a South Africa World Cup game in 2010 (travel and accommodation included)

The top 50 images entered to the competition, including the winner, will be exhibited at Festival @ The Sony World Photography Awards in Cannes, April 2009

The competition is open to amateur photographers from across the globe and the closing date has been extended until 28 February 2009.  The winner will be announced on 20 March 2009.

The Sony World Photography Awards are entirely international, welcoming people from across the globe to submit their photographs into an exciting amateur competition, which is run alongside the Professional Awards. They are judged by some of the most renowned names in the industry including Tom Stoddart and Elliott Erwitt. 

Further information about the Sony World Photography Awards can be found at www.worldphotographyawards.org

• The Sony World Photography Awards (WPA), launched in 2007, lend a global platform for the photographic industry and community. Through a variety of international programmes including the week-long Festival @ The Sony World Photography Awards, the launch of an online magazine and a gallery, an international student programme and a touring exhibition, the WPA will continue to discover new talent and create avenues through which to reward photographers with the support and expertise of industry professionals. The winner of L’iris d’Or – the best photograph for both the amateur and the professional awards – will be announced at the awards ceremony in Cannes on 16 April 2009

• The WPA website - www.worldphotographyawards.org now features an online magazine and gallery. It also includes comprehensive information about the awards, the categories, a current list of World Photographic Academy members, and key dates. Images from the 2008 awards are available via the website’s press centre

• About Sony
Sony manufactures audio, video, communications and information technology products for the global consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, game and online businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be one of the world’s leading digital entertainment brands. Sony recorded consolidated global annual sales of EUR 55.44 billion (yen 8,871 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008, based on an average market exchange rate for the same period of yen 160.0 to the EUR. It employs approximately 180,500 people worldwide.

In Europe, the Sony Group recorded consolidated annual sales of EUR 12.73 billion (yen 2,328 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. Sony Europe, headquartered at the Sony Center am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, is responsible for the company’s European electronics business and registered consolidated sales of EUR 9.55 billion for the same period.  For more information on Sony Europe, please visit http://www.sony-europe.com and http://www.sony.eu/presscentre

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