From film, to music to photography diverse art and artists have the ability to breath new life into every medium – this is evident when viewing the entries for the Sony World Photography Awards,”the most celebrated and diverse photography competitions in the world.” Currently, in its 12th year, the goal of the competition is to showcase the best contemporary photography around the world.
The competition is set up to welcome photographers from all walks of life, with free entry, and open to visionaries of all ages and skill levels, “from emerging 12-19-year-olds, enthusiastic hobbyists, and students, to established professionals, there is a competition and a category for everyone.” Entries are split into categories such as Architecture, Documentary, Landscape, Portraiture, Sports, Street Photography, Wildlife, Travel, Culture, and more.
This year the competition received a record-breaking number of entries with more than 327,000 images entered into the four competitions: Professional, Open, Student and Youth. The following list is some of the best entries from the upcoming awards, which will be announced on April 17th. A total prize fund of $30,000 (USD) along with the latest Sony digital imaging equipment will be shared between winning contestants. Scroll down below to see the entries and don’t forget to upvote your favs!
Architecture: ‘The Mirrored Entrance of Tokyu Plaza’ by Connor Henderson, Australia
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Architecture: ‘Sentinel’ by Shaun Mills, United Kingdom,
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Architecture: ‘A Sense of Scale’ by Dean Grossmith, United Kingdom
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Architecture: ‘Seeing the Light I’ by Christopher Madden, United Kingdom
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Architecture: ‘Aquatic Rider’ by Daniel Portch, United Kingdom
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Architecture: ‘Tangshan, 2018’ by Jennifer Bin, Canada
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Architecture: ‘Untitled’ by Liu Rui, China Mainland
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Architecture: ‘Natural Phenomena and Man Creation’ by Carole Pariat, France
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Architecture: ‘Lausanne’ by Frank Machalowski, Germany
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Architecture: ‘Wrapped’ by Klaus Lenzen, Germany
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Architecture: ‘Heatwave’ by Philippe Sarfati, France
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Architecture: ‘Hubris part I’ by Katarzyna Young, South Africa
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Creative: ‘In Between’ by Antoine Tiggart, United States
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Creative: ‘Dreamers and Warriors’ by Martin Stranka, Czech Republic
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Creative: ‘The Iron Harvest’ by Oscar van Heek, Netherlands
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Creative: ‘Little Mona Lisa’ by Mariëtte Aernoudts, Netherlands
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Creative: ‘Central Station Hamburg’ by Alexandra Fink-Milosavljevic, Germany
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Creative: ‘Untitled’ by Kelly Ts, Greece
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Creative: ‘L’homme est fou. Il adore un Dieu invisible et détruit une nature visible, inconscient que la Nature qu’il détruit est le Dieu qu’il vénère’ by Stéphane Anthonioz, France
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Creative: ‘Polkadot on Memory Bliss’ by Hardijanto Budyman, Indonesia
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Creative: Italy, ‘Wires and Pigeons’ by Alessandro Zunino
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Creative: ‘Tarian Ikan Cupang’ by Dhiky Aditya, Indonesia
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Creative: ‘Everyday Resignation’ by Hikichi Masatou, Japan
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Creative: ‘A Dog and its Best Friend’ by Arvids Baranovs, Latvia
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Creative: ‘Gneisenau’ by Patryk Kuleta, Poland
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Creative: ‘A Walk On The Bike’ by Alexandr Vlassyuk, Russia
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Culture: ‘The Sound of Light’ by Yi Han, China Mainland
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Culture: ‘A Red River of Faith’ by Lifeng Chen, China Mainland
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Culture: ‘Shadow Puppetry’ by Pan Jianhua, China Mainland
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Culture: ‘End of Nowruz celebration in Iran (Kurdistan)’ by Hasan Torabi, Iran
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Culture: ‘Greek traditional life’ by Georgios Papapostolou, Greece
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Culture: ‘Drawing the Happiness ‘ by Ming Kai Chan, Hong Kong SAR
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Culture: ‘Have you been to a Chinese Opera?’ by Michael Chee Yen Chuan, Malaysia
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Culture: ‘Bright Minuet’ by Alessandro Zanoni, Italy
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Culture: ‘The Harvest’ by Dikpal Thapa, Nepal
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Culture: ‘Synergy of Humanity’ by Eng Chung Tong, Malaysia
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Culture: ‘Winner of Naadam’ by Tomek Kozlowski, Poland
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Culture: ‘Vasile Oanea’ by Alex Robciuc, Romania
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Culture: ‘The Mona Lisa’ by Remus Daescu, Romania
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Landscape: ‘Stumps, Alder Lake, Nisqually River, Washington’ by Hal Gage, United States
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Landscape: ‘Executioner’ by Neil Burnell, United Kingdom
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Landscape: ‘Illusion’ by Gérard Bret, France
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Landscape: ‘Solitude’ by Swapnil Deshpande, India
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Landscape: ‘Yamal Peninsula’ by Sara Bianchi, Italy
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Landscape: ‘My Secret Island’ by Masako Metz, Japan
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Landscape: ‘Mount Bromo East Java Indonesia’ by Roslan Nasir, Malaysia
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Landscape: ‘Untitled’ by Robert Saunders, New Zealand
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Landscape: ‘The Scream’ by Antonio Gandore, Romania
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Landscape: ‘Frozen Pond’ by Svein Nordrum, Norwegian
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Landscape: ‘The Sarzhematy River’ by Oleg Kugaev, Russia
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Landscape: ‘Under the Moon’ by Kuo Zei Yang, Taiwan
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Motion: ‘Harmony’ by Christy Lee Rogers, United States
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Motion: ‘Runners I’ by Brooke Bartletta, United States
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Motion: ‘Spa F1 Crash’ by Francois Lenoir, Belgium
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Motion: ‘SWAT Force 2’ by Qin Fan, China Mainland
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Motion: ‘Night Swim’ by Remy Whiting, United Kingdom
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Motion: ‘Walking on Water’ by Michele Allan, United Kingdom
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Motion: ‘National Police Day’ by Piotr Cyganik, Poland
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Motion: ‘The Hands’ by Filippos Alafakis, Greece
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Motion: ‘Little Wizard’ by Marlena Kurowska-Jankowiak, Poland
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Motion: ‘Untitled’ by Sergio Ferreira Ruiz, Spain
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Motion: ‘Smoke’ by Alexey Holod, Russia
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Huddle’ by Nadia Aly, United States
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Bedraggled Hare Ballet’ by Nick Edwards, United Kingdom
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Underwater Gannets’ by Tracey Lund, United Kingdom
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Circle of Power’ by Sandi Little, Canadian
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Nocturnal Hunter’ by Guillermo Ossa, Colombia
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Owl’ by Jeroen Beekelaar, Netherlands
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘The Assault’ by David Salvatori, Italy
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Untitled’ by Greg Lecoeur, France
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Agony & Ecstasy’ by Pedro Jarque Krebs, Peru
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Arabian Red Fox’ by Msaaed Al Gharibah, Kuwait
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Ethiopian Wolf’ by Roberto Marchegiani, Italy
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Intense’ by Yung-sen Wu, Taiwan
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Dusk of the Jellyfish’ by Angel Fitor, Spain
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Natural World & Wildlife: ‘Face to Face’ by Manuel Enrique González Carmona, Spain
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Portraiture: ‘Diamond Skin’ by Mikeila Borgia, Argentina
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Portraiture: ‘Little Present. (Flowers for Julia)’ by Yuliya Kalamiytsava, Belarus
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Portraiture: ‘Nabil’ by Sean Hayes, United Kingdom
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Portraiture: ‘Life is Crushing Me’ by Jasem Khlef, Canada
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Portraiture: ‘Grayson Perry – Birth’ by Richard Ansett, United Kingdom
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Portraiture: ‘Xibalba’ by Tim Cavadini, Germany
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Portraiture: ‘Culture’ by Hasan Torabi, Iran
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Portraiture: ‘Portrait in Night Lights’ by Niccolò Cozzi, Italy
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Portraiture: ‘Anna’ by Olga Urbanek, Poland
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Portraiture: ‘Portrait of Father and Son’ by Artem Mikryukov, Russia
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Portraiture: ‘Reflections’ by Sergio Aparicio Olivas, Spain
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Portraiture: ‘Bruno’s Portrait’ by Elena Merce, Spain
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Still Life: ‘Galia Melon’ by Maciek Jasik, United States
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Still Life: ‘Crushed Pastels’ by Billie-Maree Ward, Australia
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Still Life: ‘Mathematical Landscape’ by Diego Diaz, Colombia
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Still Life: ‘Peony and Leaves’ by Rachel Yee Laam Lai, Hong Kong SAR
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Still Life: ‘#real #me #ad 8’ by N. A. Vague, Germany
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Still Life: ‘Past Life’ by Alice van Kempen, Netherlands
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Still Life: ‘Everyday Constructivism’ Dalma Szondy, Hungary
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Still Life: ‘Beautiful Chaos’ by Gaurav Doshi, India
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Still Life: ‘Untitled’ by Pratik Parulekar, India
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Still Life: ‘Prunus domestica ‘President’ European Plum’ by Masumi Shiohara, Japan
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Street Photography: ‘Untitled’ by Miranda Alam, United States
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Street Photography: ‘Risky journey’ by Md. Akhlas Uddin, Bangladesh
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Street Photography: ‘City Camping’ by Zhou Dainan, China Mainland
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Street Photography: ‘Bazaar’ by Yiannis Linosporis, Greece
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Street Photography: ‘Open Air Toilet: When will it end?’ by Carole Pariat, France
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Street Photography: ‘Yellow Vest Protestor’ by Arnaud Guillard, France
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Street Photography: ‘To Work’ by Audun Nygaard, Norway
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Street Photography: ‘Little Girl on a Fake Beach’ by Daniel Gentelev, Israel
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Street Photography: ‘Walking Among the Stars’ by Rosaria Sabrina Pantano, Italy
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Street Photography: ‘Untitled’ by Stan De Zoysa, Spain
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Street Photography: ‘Hey You’ by Fabian Ruchti, Switzerland
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Street Photography: ‘Untitled’ by Denys Borysov, Ukraine
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Street Photography: ‘Norrköping’ by Jonas Dahlström, Sweden
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Travel: ‘La Estación’ by Agustin Belussi, Argentina
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Travel: ‘Untitled’ by Lauren Hook, Australia
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Travel: ‘Converge’ by Lu Quanhou , China Mainland
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Travel: ‘Women of Arugam Bay’ by Maxwell Gifted, France
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Travel: ‘Woman wearing a Wedding Dress’ by Nicolas Boyer, France
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Travel: ‘Familial Ryokan in Beppu’ by Nicolas Boyer, France
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Travel: ‘Walking in the Hell Valley’ by Leung Ho Chan, Hong Kong SAR
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Travel: ‘Milky Way Campfire’ by Johannes Laufs, Germany
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Travel: ‘Midnight in Lofoten – Svolvær, Norway’ by Siddharth Sachar, India
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Travel: ‘Forest of Resonating Lamps’ by Yukihito Ono, Japan
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Travel: ‘Whale Shark Encounter, Papua West, 2018’ by Marco Zaffignani, Italy
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Travel: ‘Fantastic Morning in Cappadocia’ by Poramin Kanyakool, Thailand
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Travel: ‘Break Time’ by JIHO PARK, South Korea
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Travel: ‘Picnic at Kaluts Desert’ by Laily Hassan, Malaysia
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Travel: ‘Flower on the Sea’ by Trung Pham Huy, Vietnam
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