Shortlist Revealed for Sony World Photography Awards 2015
The shortlists for the Professional, Open and Youth competitions of the Sony World Photography Awards have been announced. Those in the awards’ 13 Professional categories will now compete for a $25,000 prize and the coveted 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 on Thursday 23 April. The winning and shortlisted images will go on show at Somerset House, London from 24 April – 10 May and published in the 2015 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards book. Click through / scroll down for the shortlists.
WPO Press Release
Shortlist revealed for Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s biggest photography competition
Professional, Open and Youth competitions
London, 24 February: The 2015 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s biggest photography competition, today announces the shortlists for its Professional, Open and Youth categories.
Recognising and rewarding the world’s best contemporary photography from the last year, the 2015 competition received the highest number of entries in its eight year history – 173,444 images from 171 countries – and a 24% increase on 2014.
The judging, which is done anonymously by a panel of experts from the World Photographic Academy, has uncovered inspiring, arresting and thought-provoking work by a wide range of professional photographers and enthusiasts from around the world. See full list of judges and bios here.
Across the 13 Professional, 10 Open and 3 Youth categories the judges were refreshed by the bold approach of the shortlisted photographers to familiar topics and the ability of these photographers to surprise the judges with images and stories they have not previously seen.
Speaking about the shortlisted images, Astrid Merget Motsenigos, Creative Director of the World Photography Organisation and organiser of the awards said:
“The sole purpose of the Sony World Photography Awards is to celebrate and appreciate the talented artists working in the photographic industry. Once again, the shortlist demonstrates the vibrancy, diversity and skill of both today’s established photographers and, as importantly, the growing army of citizen photographers for whom the awards offer unpreceded exposure and opportunity.
“The record number of entries gave our expert panel of judges a monumental task but we are incredibly proud to present to you a shortlist which truly showcases some of the world’s best photography.”
The shortlisted photographers for all categories are listed below and names included are both new and familiar to the competition. Those recognised again by the awards include: Peter Franck (Germany); Donald Webber (Canada); Amit Madheshiya (India); Brent Stirton (South Africa); Simon Norfolk (UK), Fan Li (China) and Massimo Siragusa (Italy). New names include Julia Fullerton-Batten (UK) and Sebastian Gil Miranda (France).
Those in the awards’ Professional categories will now compete for a $25,000 prize and the coveted 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 on Thursday 23 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 24 April – 10 May and published in the 2015 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards book. The images will be printed by theprintspace, our Official Exhibition Printer. Tickets can be booked at www.worldphoto.org/2015exhibition. The exhibition will also include an intimate display of still images, books and films by Elliott Erwitt, recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award.
Shortlisted photographers
PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES
Photographers were invited to enter a series of between 3 and 10 images into any of the following 13 categories. Judges were asked to select up to 10 photographers for the shortlist. Photographers are listed alphabetically
Architecture
Joanna Bałaś, Poland
Cosmin Bumbutz, Romania
Jonathan Carvajal, Colombia
Antonio La Grotta, Italy
Massimo Siragusa / Agenzia Fotogiornalistica Contrasto Galleria del Cembalo, Italy
Vadim Sivak, Ukraine
Arts & Culture
Alessandra Bello, Italy
Maurizio Beucci / Leica Camera Italia, Italy
Aristide Economopoulos, United States
Dennis Fung / DF Photowork, Hong Kong
Olaf Schuelke / Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo, Germany
Koh Soon, Malaysia
Brent Stirton, South Africa
Pierre André Transunto, Italy
Rich Wiles / Invision - Images, United Kingdom
Gili Yaari, Israel
Campaign
Jonathan Banks, United Kingdom
Katamura Fumihito, Japan
Eduardo Leal / 4SEE Photographers, Portugal
Amit Madheshiya, India
Sebastian Gil Miranda, France
Fei Maohua, China
Jonathan Syer, United Kingdom
Conceptual
Alejandro Almaraz, Argentina
Kursad Bayhan / Zaman Newspaper, Turkey
Meike Fischer, Germany
Lisa Gimenez / KLÖN Gallery, Argentina
Daesung Lee, South Korean
Jordi Pizarro, Spain
Katia Platonova, Russia
Rahul Talukder, Bangladesh
Julie van der Vaart / 44 Gallery, Netherlands
Contemporary Issues
Corentin Fohlen, France
Shah Newaz Khan / Photobank Gallery, Bangladesh
Lisa Krant, United States
Annalisa Natali Murri, Italy
Brent Stirton, South Africa
Boguslawa Trela, Poland
Scott Typaldos / Prospekt, Switzerland
Current Affairs
Valery Melnikov / Rossia segodnya, Russia
John Moore / Getty Images, United States
Vladyslav Musiienko / UNIAN, Ukraine
Herman Verwey / Media24, South Africa
Landscape
Peng-Chun Yen / NEPO Gallery, Taiwan
Laia Abril / Institute Artist, Spain
Armando Avallone, Italy
Simon Butterworth, United Kingdom
Simon Norfolk, United Kingdom
Rudi Sebastian, Germany
Eva Skalak, Czech Republic
Giulio di Sturco / Reportage by Getty, Italy
Danila Tkachenko, Russia
Lifestyle
Dovile Dagiene, Lithuania
Julia Fullerton-Batten, United Kingdom
Ramil Gilvanov / Rimma Gilvanova, Russia
Alvaro Gomez Vidal, Spain
Chen Jian, China
Fan Li / Lon Gallery, China
Jiangsong Li / Reuters News Agency, China
JM Lopez / AFP, Spain
Yoko Naito, Japan
Mahadev Rojas Torres, Venezuela
People
Johan Bavman, Sweden
Carla Kogelman, Netherlands
Sabine Lewandowski, Germany
Tali Mayer & Janos Chiala, Italy
Cecila Meller, France
Jennifer Osborne / Upper Orange, Canada
Liza Van der Stock, Belgium
Giovanni Troilo / Institute Artist, Italy
Belgian
Portraiture
Christian Berthelot, France
Rodrigo Illescas, Argentina
Jens Juul, Denmark
Tomasz Lazar, Poland
Kerry Mansfield, United States
Ruben Salgado Escudero, Spain
Dougie Wallace / Institute Artist, United Kingdom
Sport
Salil Bera / The Week, India
Riccardo Bononi / IRFOSS, Italy
Irina Dainakova / La Dolce Vita Magazine, Belarus
Sascha Fromm, Germany
Guorong Jia, China
Anthony Kham, Cambodia
Marcin Klocek / Traveller.pl, Poland
Clas Kristensen, Norway
Ronaldo Land, Brazil
Jonathan Yeap Chin Tiong, Singapore
Still Life
Peter Franck / Schacher- Raum für Kunst, Germany
Kirill Golovchenko / Agentur Focus and Dymchuk Gallery, Ukraine
Kimmo Metsäranta, Finland
Vova Pomortzeff / Agentur Focus, Russia
Emanuele Satolli, Italy
Mong-Yong Sim / Mysim Design, Malaysia
Krishna Tummalapalli, India
Donald Weber / VII Photo Agency, Canada
Travel
Nazir Azhari Bin Mohd Anis, Malaysia
Nadia Maria Dias, India
Andrea de Franciscis, Italy
Peter Franck / Schacher- Raum für Kunst, Germany
Zbynek Hrbata, Czech Republic
Bernhard Lang, Germany
Yoko Naito, Japan
Vasilis Ntamplis / Eleftheria, Greece
Adhi Prayoga, Indonesia
Farid Sani, Iran
OPEN CATEGORIES
Presiding Chair: Sam Barzilay, Creative Director, United Photo Industries (US)
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
Gina Alderson-Hicks, Australia
Armin Appel, Germany (shortlisted for two images)
Marcus Bayer, Germany
Goran Erfani, Iran
Michiel Hageman, Netherlands
Cesar March, Spain
Andrea Rossato, Italy
Jürgen Schrepfer, Germany
Klaus Wäscher, Germany
Arts and Culture
Aprison Aprison, Indonesia
Muhammad Berkati, Indonesia
Kai Heimberg, Germany
David Martin Huamani Bedoya, Peru
Hector Muñoz Huerta, Mexico
Adrian Jaszczak, Poland
Partha Sen, India
Alessandro Spiga, Italy
Elangovan Subrmania, India
Marius Vieth, Germany
Enhanced
Lione Bakker, Netherlands
Ceslovas Cesnakevicius, Lithuania
Antony Crossfield, United Kingdom
Lisa Griffin, Ireland
Nenad Martic, Croatia
Daniel Necula, Romania
Manh Ngoc Nguyen, Germany
Milad Safabakhsh, Iran
Zoltan Toth, Hungary
Theo de Witte, Netherlands
Low Light
Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee, India
Katja Gragert, Germany
Rodrigo Jardon, Mexico
Tsang Kam Man, China
Alexander Kitsenko, Ukraine
Nick Ng Yeow Kee, Malaysia
Darren Nisbett, United Kingdom
Iskra Parvanova, Bulgaria
Zol Straub, Australia
Ian Thuillier, Ireland
Nature & Wildlife
Seyed Babak Musavi, Iran
Gal Gross, Israel
Harfian Herdi, Indonesia (shortlisted for two images)
Melissa Little, Australia
Peep Loorits, Estonia
Yasuyuki Oono, Japan
Yvonne Spane, Germany
Jassen Todorov, United States
Antoine Weis, Switzerland/ Luxemberg
Panoramic
Marcio Cabral, Brazil
Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji, Iran (shortlisted for two images)
Wojciech Kruczynski, Poland
Markus Kuhn, Germany
Mike MacKinven, New Zealand
Pierumberto Pampanin, Italy
Norman Quinn, United Kingdom
People
Saeed Barikani, Iran
Amitava Chandra, India
Sergio Diaz, Spain
Raquel Lopez-Chicheri, Spain
Simon Morris, United Kingdom
Agus Purnomo, Indonesia
Saleh Rozati, Iran
Peter Voss, Germany
Hui Hua Wang, Singapore
Smile
Tzu-Hsun Fang, Taiwan
Mohammad Amir Hamja, Bangladesh
Ümmü Kandilcioğlu, Turkey
Christine Kapuschinsky Johnson, Austria
Kiatthaworn Khorthawornwong, Thailand
Wilson Lee, Hong Kong
Joseph Makeni, Kenya
Steffen Rothammel, Germany
Peter Voss, Germany
Umair Wadood, Pakistan
Split Second
Ata Mohammad Adnan, Bangladesh
Panom Archarit, Thailand
Uwe Hennig, Germany
Small Monte Lee, China
Cesar March, Spain
Jaime Massieu, Spain
Eko Prihariyanto, Indonesia
Lessy Sebastian, Indonesia (shortlisted for two images)
Tarek Touma, Lebanon
Travel
Kumar Bishwajit, Bangladesh
Ioulia Chvetsova, France
Byron Dilkes, United Kingdom
Jorge Fernandez, Spain
Yasen Georgiev, Bulgaria
Kok Keong Na, Malaysia
Enrico Madini, Italy
Ismail Abdul Mutalib, Indonesia
Vladimir Proshin, Russia
Massimo Rumi, Italy
YOUTH COMPETITION
Open to photographers aged 19 and under, judged by the World Photography Organisation.
Culture
Mohammad Baggale Asghari Baghmishe, Iran
Gaurang Bhatt, India
Zhu Lin Ch'ng, Malaysia
Pnar Efe, Turkey
Reuben Foong, Singapore
David Pereira, Singapore
Beatriz Rocha, Portugal
Andres Felipe Caicedo Sierra, Colombia (shortlisted for two images)
Environment
Krishan Bansal, India
Alex Foden, United Kingdom
Fernando Henrique, Venezuela
Nihal Koppath, India
Daniel Malikyar, Afghanistan
Sepehr Razmju, Iran
Jacopo Sironi, Italy
Yong Lin Tan, Malaysia (shortlisted for two images)
Ivan Turukhano, Russia
Portraits
Adi Dekel, Israel
Daniil Maksyukov, Russia
Marco Toc, Guatemala
Photo: Jürgen Schrepfer, Germany, Sony World Photography Awards 2015, Shortlisted in the Open Architecture category
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