The Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s largest photography competition, opens for entries today. Created by the World Photography Organisation, 2017 marks the awards’ 10th anniversary.
In addition to the Professional, Open, Youth and Student Focus competitions, the hunt is also on to find Singapore’s best photographer in the Singapore National award.
The Sony World Photography Awards annually recognises the world’s best photography. Open to all photographers, the awards are an authoritative voice in the photographic industry that has the power to shape the careers of its winning and shortlisted photographers. Each year the competition attracts both emerging talent and established artists, and presents the world’s best photography from the last 12 months to a global audience.
“I am deeply honoured and overwhelmed by this recognition. It’s my privilege to represent Singapore. This is such an immense inspiration to keep me pursuing my passion for photography further and further. Photography had been something to me and now it’s become everything to me. Smiling time!” – Kajan Madrasmail, Winner, 2016 Singapore National Award
“Winning the Portrait category was life-changing. Professionally, winning the award helped kick-start my career.” – Sophie Gamand, Winner, Professional Portrait category 2015
“Winning brought more attention to my work and I started receiving more collaboration proposals and job opportunities.” – Kylli Sparre, Winner, Open Enhanced category 2014
“The award changed my life and beyond the great visibility obtained allowed me to create solid relations of friendships and professional collaborations that I otherwise would not have been able to obtain.” – Andrea Roseate, 3rd Place, Professional Candid category 2016 and Italy National Award winner 2015
Photographers are welcome to enter their work for free into any of the awards’ four competitions: Professional, Open, Youth and Student Focus via www.worldphoto.org. The newly re-launched website gives a greater visual platform to the awards’ photographers and makes the entry process simpler than before.
Entries to the Singapore National Award will be taken from those with Singaporean nationality entering any of the ten Open categories.
The 2017 edition also sees new categories introduced across the all competitions aimed at challenging photographers to push their creative boundaries. Please see notes to editors for competition definitions and categories or click here.
The Sony World Photography Awards offer a wide range of benefits for its winning photographers, including:
The latest Sony digital imaging equipment
Inclusion in the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition in London
Inclusion in the annual Sony World Photography Awards winners book
USD$25,000 for the winner of the Photographer of the Year title
USD$5,000 for the winner of the Open competition
Worldwide media exposure and increased recognition
Scott Gray, CEO of World Photography Organisation, comments: “We are extremely proud to reach our 10thanniversary. Since launching in 2007 the Sony World Photography Awards has grown consistently in both size and credibility. Across the years the awards have discovered and celebrated a huge variety of photography. I am honored that emerging photographers across the world have been able to use the awards to launch their careers, and established photographers can use us to extend their networks. We are committed to challenging photographers to push their creative boundaries in the years to come.”
The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards attracted a record-breaking 230,103 entries from 186 countries. The Singapore National Award was presented to Singaporean photographer Kajan Madrasmail.
The 2017 Sony World Photography Awards shortlist will be announced on 28 February 2017, Open and National Awards winners will be revealed on 28 March 2017, and the overall winners will be announced on 20 April 2017. This includes an exhibition at Somerset House, London, running from 21 April to 7 May 2017.
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