“The Global Tour: Discovering a World of Images” is a new international touring exhibition of winning photos from this year’s Sony World Photography Awards. The newly curated exhibition began its world tour yesterday, 26 June 2008, with a grand launch at BOZAR Centre of Fine Arts, Brussels. It will later visit galleries in the US, Asia, Australasia, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa and South America. A total of ninety-seven images submitted by the eleven professional category winners will be shown.

Sony World Photography Awards Press Release

Sony World Photography Awards launch The Global Tour: Discovering a World of Images, an international touring exhibition of the winning photographs from this year’s competition.

A newly curated exhibition begins its world tour today, 26 June 2008, with a grand launch at BOZAR Centre of Fine Arts, Brussels. This is the first stop on a global circuit that will travel to the most prestigious galleries in countries across the world, including the US, Asia, Australasia, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa and South America.

Selected at a gala awards ceremony in Cannes last April by an Honorary Board comprising of some of the industry’s highest regarded members, including Nan Goldin, Bruce Davidson, Tom Stoddart, Elliott Erwitt and Martine Franck, the winning images were chosen from a total of 44,641 professional entries internationally, and are a testament to the extraordinary and continuing vitality of the industry and its practitioners.

The tour provides the winning candidates with a global platform for exhibiting their images and allows the public access to the best of contemporary photographic practice from categories as diverse as fashion, documentary, sport and nature. A total of ninety-seven images submitted by the eleven professional category winners have now been printed on specially selected photographic papers and framed to the highest quality.

These will be displayed in BOZAR’s impressive gallery space, alongside displays of work by the runners up in each category and the winning amateur images, shown on Sony BRAVIA HD LCD televisions. The exhibition will also feature a moving film homage to Phil Stern, who was awarded the Legacy award for his outstanding contribution to the photographic industry during the Cannes festivities last April.

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