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Win a Sony NEX-3N + a place at the Sony World Photography Awards Workshops

jmeyer — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:30:58 +0000

With the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards taking place later this month the World Photography Organisation has partnered with Sony to give 10 Digital Camera World readers the opportunity to attend a series of workshops taking place at Somerset House, London from 26th April – 28th April 2013.

One winner will also receive a NEX-3N compact system camera to test out their new skills.

Featuring the same image sensor that you’d expect from a DSLR camera, the NEX allows you to take professional standard pictures, providing the best results and picture quality on the market.

With a selection of 15 e-mount lenses available you’ll discover the ideal lens to bring your vision to life.

What’s on at the Sony World Photography Awards Workshops

The workshops will cover a variety of topics suitable for camera enthusiasts from beginners to budding professionals, and will coincide with the opening of the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition on 26th April.

There are three separate workshops covering a range of topics. From showing beginners how to improve picture quality, providing an understanding of commercial photography and turning a hobby into a career, or looking at the developments in full-frame photograph over time, there will be something for any photography enthusiast.

Speakers will include Michael Wayne Plant, who specialises in work around identities and social landscape, and Magdi Fernandes who works across fashion, music and sports.

All attendees will be entered into a prize draw each day for one lucky winner to receive the Sony NEX-3N.

Click here to enter for your chance to attend the workshops and win a Sony NEX-3N.

Should you miss out on the prize, don’t worry! You can still book yourself a ticket to attend one of the workshops. Click here to find out more about tickets and times.

Sony World Photography Awards 2013 winners revealed (image gallery)

jmeyer — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:01:43 +0000

The Sony World Photography Awards 2013 winners in the Open, Youth and 3D categories have been announced today.

The 2013 Sony World Photography Award winners in the Open Category were selected from nearly 55,000 entries and hail from all regions of the globe.

The Open category winners include:

Architecture – Martina Biccheri, Italy

Arts and Culture – Gilbert Yu, Hong Kong

Enhanced – Hoang Hiep Nguyen, Vietnam

Low Light – Elmar Akhmetov, Kazakhstan

Nature & Wildlife – Krasimir Matarov, Bulgaria

Panoramic – Yeow Kwang Yeo, Singapore

People – Hisatomi Tadahiko, Japan

Smile – Ming Hui Guan, China

Split Second – Matías Gálvez, Chile

Travel – Manny Fajutag, Philippines

The 10 Open category Sony World Photography Awards winners will now compete for the Sony World Photography Awards Open Photographer of the Year title.

The overall winner will be announced at a gala ceremony in London on 25 April, and this photographer will receive $5,000 (USD).

All category winners receive a Sony A77 and will have their winning photos exhibited at Somerset House, in London, from 26 April – 12 May as part of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition.

What’s more, the winning photos will also be published in the 2013 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards book.

Click on the following pages to see the winning images from the Sony World Photography Awards 2013 Youth and 3D categories.

PAGE 1: Sony World Photography Awards 2013 Open Category winners
PAGE 2: Sony World Photography Awards 2013 Youth Category winners
PAGE 3: Sony World Photography Awards 2013 3D Category winner

Sony World Photography Awards 2013: shortlists revealed

jmeyer — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:01:00 +0000

The World Photography Organisation has revealed its shortlists of potential winners in the Sony World Photography Awards 2013 competition.

The WPO unveiled the names of potential winners from its Professional, Open and Youth categories, which drew a record number 122,000 submissions from 170 countries in the Sony World Photography Awards 2013 competition.

Photographers returning to the awards include Javier Arcenillas (Spain); Robin Hammond (New Zealand) and Paolo Pellegrin (Italy).

The full Sony World Photography Awards 2013 shortlist can be see seen on the WPO’s website. Winners from the Open and Youth categories will be announced on March 19, 2013, while Professional category winners and the overall L’Iris D’Or / Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year title will be announced at a gala ceremony in London on April 25th.

The work of all the shortlisted photographers will be exhibited at Somerset House, London, from 26 April – 12 May as part of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition. The images will also be published in the 2013 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards book.

Click on the following pages to see a selection of the images shortlisted from the Sony World Photography Awards 2013.

PAGE 2: Images from Sony World Photography Awards 2013 Open category shortlist
PAGE 3: Images from Sony World Photography Awards 2013 Professional category shortlist

W.M. Hunt, Sony World Photography Awards head judge, on what wins

jmeyer — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:00:25 +0000

Winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2012 have been named, with American Mitch Dobrowner claiming the overall title of the L’Iris d’Or by the competition’s panel of nine judges.

We sat down with head judge W.M. Hunt prior to the awards ceremony, who kindly took time from preparing his speech to tell us what he looks for when evaluating an image as well as his thoughts on why curiosity is a key asset for every photographer.

Tell us… how does one even begin to judge a competition this size?

You hope that a collegial group of people. It’s very Roman. Divy it up and everybody agrees yes this should stay, no this should go. Eventually you get to a point where the question you start asking is, Is this image a winner? This is how you get down to a shorter number.

How much do you have to lobby for pictures you like?

I’ve never judged a competition where there’s been one, last angry man. Generally there is a consensus. There’s usually a consensus. You’re prepared to lobby. I think that in the final scheme of things, some of us may have argued that some pictures had more edge and belong higher than lower, but overall we largely agreed on who should make the cut.

There’s also something rather levelling about looking at pictures in the international group and realising that good pictures are good pictures everywhere.

How do you deal with criticism of your choices?

There will always be criticism. But I think people bear in mind that the jurors aren’t responsible for entering photos into a competition. You get what you’re given. So it’s pleasing if you dip into the pool and it’s full of good pictures.

When evaluating a photo, what are you looking for first?

The overriding consideration for me is that I’m looking for something I haven’t seen before. I want to be surprised and delighted. If I’ve seen it before, then it doesn’t have as much impact for me. I want to be excited by a picture.

There are all kinds of classic elements and graphic considerations to consider, but ultimately it comes down to a unique imagination that put that artist in that place and said, this is what I want to show you. It doesn’t happen very often.

Are you looking more for creativity and composition than technical excellence?

Imagination, every time. It’s the primary thing I look for. There is a tsunami of good pictures that have done everything correctly, but they’re less interesting than the great ones.

What are some of the common errors of the unsuccessful images?

Lack of originality. That covers everything: subject matter, a fear of being bold… a fear of being personal. I don’t like generic picture-making. You want compelling, as a judge.

I’m always conscious of how much I think photographers know about other things. Do they bring curiosity to their work. It’s curiosity as much as anything for me. It’s a strange kind of intelligence; if you’re really, really curious, I think you’re really, really smart.

Your curiosity is rewarded by learning things; it lets you be ambitious as an artist and informs your intelligence.

What’s been most surprising about the entries this year?

One thing is numbers: it’s staggering how many people enter. One of the good things is it gets increasingly diverse and international. It’s exciting to get more work from more places.

Of course, it’s also distressing to find so many unsuccessful entries amid all that. It amazes me how some people don’t challenge themselves enough, and I don’t know what they’re thinking with some of the pictures they enter.

In recent years we’ve seen Sony’s translucent mirror technology, the light field camera, Adobe’s Content-Aware move tool. How do you see new technology changing the way competitions are judged?

It’s about what they send in. I don’t care how they make it. It’s about the passion and intelligence behind the equipment, not the equipment.

But you knew I was going to say that! There’s a lead for you: Head judge says ‘just aim it!’

One tip I can share: if something’s a little off-centre, visually it can be more engaging against some of the more formal entries. In a past competition in the natural history category there were these yellow pictures of silkworms that looked like big balloons. You had no idea what they were. Yet we were intrigued and kept voting them to stay in through each round, and eventually they got second!

So using this example, in the nature category you expect to see the picture of the bug, but you don’t expect to see abstracts of silkworms. Try to surprise us!

Tell us a little about why you chose the winner.

I said earlier that I don’t take into account how someone did something, but in the instance of Mitch Dobrowner, we did. He shot pictures of storms and tornadoes. The pictures are striking and you’re admiring them until you think, wait a minute: this guy is standing in the middle of a tornado with a medium format camera? Get out of there!

He’s making these stunning, clearly composed black and white landscape images in the vein of Ansel Adams, but what he’s photographing is this maelstrom of energy, and that’s what we liked. There was a weird juxtaposition of all this formal sensibility and this energy… he was trying to harness something that was un-harnessable.

American photographer named Sony World Photography Awards 2012 winner

jmeyer — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:34:04 +0000

American photographer Mitch Dobrowner has won the L’Iris d’Or title at last night’s Sony World Photography Awards 2012 ceremony.

The ceremony’s top award gives Dobrowner the title of 2012 Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year as well as $25,000 cash and a slew of Sony camera gear.

Dobrowner was presented with the award during the Sony World Photography Awards 2012 gala at the Hilton Hotel in London’s Park Lane for his series of images, Storms.

You can read an exclusive interview with Dobrowner in Issue 126 of Digital Camera magazine, which is on newsstands from 25 May.

Dobrowner said of his images: “In landscape photography, there is one moment that will never be the same again. I want my images to do the speaking. That’s what photography is all about.”

Dobrowner was chosen as the winner of the L’Iris d’Or by a panel of nine judges. In addition to a $25,000 cash prize and Sony’s latest digital imaging camera equipment, he is awarded the accolade of joining previous L’Iris d’Or winners Alejandro Chaskielberg, Tommaso Ausili, David Zimmerman and Vanessa Winship as a member of the World Photographic Academy.

WM Hunt, Chairman of the 2012 Honorary Judging Committee and MC of the 2012 Awards ceremony, said, ‘There is enormous pleasure in the jury’s selection of Mitch Dobrowner because he is the best of what is classic and what is contemporary in photography.

“He brings a sense of its history and enormous skill in his craft while pushing his imagination and, even, physical strength. The work offers a visceral rush while being wonderfully well made. I think he is an exceptional choice.’

Note to readers: stay tuned for an exclusive interview with WM Hunt about what makes a good image and how to win a competition like the Sony World Photography Awards, appearing on Digital Camera World very soon.

The Sony World Photography Awards Open Photographer of the Year title went to Tobias Bräuning for his image Dancing Queen, in the split second category, a new category this year. Inspiration for his image came from pictures of simple water drops on a German DSLR internet forum.

The 29 year old software engineer from Germany was awarded a $5,000 cash prize as well as Sony’s latest digital imaging camera equipment.

Among the other winners are Peter Franck from Germany who triumphed in the Commercial campaign and fashion categories, and the UK’s Simon Norfolk, winner of the Photojournalism & Documentary People category, who is the author of books such as Bleed – based on the aftermath of war in Bosnia.

The winning images and more will be on display at The Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, which forms part of the World Photo London festival currently taking place at Somerset House.

This is the second year in which the awards have been held in London having previously been held at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.

Over 112,000 images were entered into the 2012 competition from 171 countries – the largest number of entries to date.

Sony World Photography Awards 2012: youth, open category winners revealed

jmeyer — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:38:46 +0000

Winners in the Youth and Open categories of the Sony World Photography Awards 2012 have been announced.

After revealing their shortlist a few weeks ago, the World Photography Organisation announced the winners this morning who will be formally announced at the annual Sony World Photography Awards ceremony and gala dinner on 26 April at the Hilton Hotel in London’s Park Lane.

The Open Competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2012 is for anyone with an interest in photography and photographers are judged on a single image. The winners in this category are:

Architecture: Filippo Di Rosa (Italy)
Arts & Culture: Sanket K (India)
Enhanced: Victor Vargas Villafuerte (Mexico)
Low Light: Natalia Belentsova (Russian Federation)
Nature & Wildlife: Giovanni Frescura (Italy)
Panoramic: Denise Worden (United States)
People: Ana Gregorič (Slovenia)
Smile: Piotr Stasiuk (Poland)
Split Second: Tobias Bräuning (Germany)
Travel: Krzysztof Browko (Poland)

New for the 2012 Awards, the Youth Competition is open to any photographer under the age of 20. The Youth category winners are:

Culture: Kolyaskin Sergey (Russian Federation)
Environment: Bernard Pieterse (South Africa)
Portraits: Karina Sembe (Ukraine)

The awards take place alongside World Photo, London, a month long event that offers a mix of photographic events at London’s Somerset House from the opening weekend of 27 – 30 April, which will feature selected events such as portfolio reviews, workshops and symposiums, many led by the Honorary Judges for the Sony World Photography Awards 2012 and other international industry experts.

The Sony World Photography Awards 2012 winners’ exhibitions, curated by Michael Benson and the Candlestar team, will continue through to 20 May 2012.
The World Photography Organisation has also announced today the shortlists for the 3D and Moving Image Award and winners for the Save The Children Photo Competition and Young Tate Award. For more information please visit the WPO website.

Sony World Photography Awards 2012 winners set for London exhibition

jmeyer — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:00:38 +0000

Krzysztof Browko, Poland, Open Shortlist, Travel, Sony World Photography Awards 2012

Winning images from the Sony World Photographic Awards 2012 will be exhibited at the World Photo London festival, running from the 27th April to 20th May, it has been announced.

This year’s successful snappers will have beaten off competition from over 112,000 entries in 171 countries worldwide.

Shortlisted entries, released earlier this month, represent work by budding amateurs as well as seasoned professionals in categories spanning from photojournalism and documentary to nature and sport.

Taking pride of place at the show will be the images from new L’Iris d’Or – the Sony Professional Photographer of the Year. The photographer taking the crown from last year’s winner Alejandro Chaskielberg is due to be announced at the Sony World Photography Awards Gala Ceremony.

The World Photo London 2012 programme offers a range of talks, seminars, exhibitions, and creative workshops and is being billed as the ‘global photographic event of the year’.

Sony World Photography Awards 2012 shortlist revealed

jmeyer — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:29:10 +0000

The World Photography Organisation has revealed its shortlist for the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards.

Billed by organisers as the “global photographic event of the year,” the Sony World Photography Awards 2012 competition has recorded more than 112,000 entries from 171 countries, with the shortlisted images depicting a range of stories of extraordinary lives from around the world.

In the Professional competition, many of the images depict the major global events of 2011, such as the war in Libya, the European economic crisis and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, while the Open competition covered an even wider gamut of subjects and genres.

Returning photographers from previous years, include 2010 Professional Landscape winner, Peter Franck (Germany); who this year is a finalist in three categories; 2011 Professional Contemporary Issues and Current Affairs winner, Javier Arcenillas (Spain); and Chan Kwok Hung (Hong Kong) whose stunningly dramatic image ‘Buffalo Race’ won the Overall Open Competition in 2011.

As shortlisted photographers in the Sony World Photography Awards, each will have their work exhibited at an exhibition at London’s Somerset House to coincide with the award ceremony in April 2012.

The annual Sony World Photography Awards ceremony and gala dinner will take place on 26 April at the Hilton Hotel in London’s Park Lane. The awards celebration will once again take place alongside World Photo, London, a month-long event full of guest speakers, workshops and other photographic events for photographers of all abilities.

The opening weekend of World Photo London will be held at Somerset House from 27 – 30 April with selected events including portfolio reviews, workshops, symposiums and the Sony World Photography Awards winners’ exhibitions, which continue through to 20 May 2012.

Open shortlisted photographers

In each category judges were able to select up to ten images.
Architecture

●   Babul Bhatt                                      India
●   Patrice Carré                                   France
●   Filippo Di Rosa                                 Italy
●   Fabrizio Intonti                                  Italy
●   Francisco Mendes                          Portugal
●   Rui Nunes                                         United Kingdom
●   Fulvio Pellegrini                                Italy
●   José Ramón Montes                      Spain
●   Thai Son Huynh                                Vietnam

Arts & Culture

●   Dovile Dagiene                               Lithuania
●   Levi Fanan                                        Brazil
●   Kushal Gangopadhyay                 India
●   Antonio Iubatti                                Italy
●   Sanket K                                           India
●   Klaartje Lambrechts                       Belgium
●   Oliver Mezger                                  Germany
●   Tan Nono Rahardian                      Indonesia
●   Samanta Sollima                             Italy
●   Paul Störm                                        Australia

Enhanced

●   Alexandr Afonin                              Russian Federation
●   Sandra Cifo                                      United States
●   Paul Irving                                         United Kingdom
●   Milan Makarský                               Czech Republic
●   Frank Martin Eisele                          Germany
●   Rodolfo Mejías                                Venezuela
●   Jochen Resch                                 Germany
●   Oren Shved                                     Israel
●   Victor Vargas Villafuerte               Canada
●   Antonios Vlachou                           Slovakia

Low Light

●   Elmar Akhmetov                             Kazakhstan
●   Edoardo Brotto                               Italy
●   Ignasi cunill                                       Spain
●   Teng Hin Khoo                                 Malaysia
●   Sergey Kochmak                            Russian Federation
●   Christoph Krüger                             Germany
●   Belentsova Natalia                         Russian Federation
●   Pansiri Pikunkaew                           Thailand
●   Derrick Woo                                     Hong Kong
●   Heng Zee Kek                                  Singapore

Nature & Wildlife

●   Nadav Bagim                                  Israel
●   Anita Erdmann                               Canada
●   Handri Fitrido                                    Indonesia
●   Felicitas Frei                                    Switzerland
●   Giovanni Frescura                          Italy
●   Peter Krejzl                                      Czech Republic
●   Chan Kwok Hung                            Hong Kong
●   William Lee                                       United States
●   Kuntal Paul                                       India
●   Petar Sabol                                      Croatia

Panoramic

●   Pramiga Aditya                               Indonesia
●   Ionut Hrenciuc                                 Romania
●   Istvan Nagy                                      Netherlands
●   Noel Plaszkó                                     Hungary
●   Matthew Post                                  Australia
●   James Rider                                     United Kingdom
●   Terry Soo                                           Australia
●   Ian Taylor                                          United Kingdom
●   steve Williams                                  United Kingdom
●   Denise Worden                               United States

People

●   Victoria Bolshemennik                   Israel
●   Tommy Braxton                               United Kingdom
●   Thomas Dymond                             United Kingdom
●   Mehmet Fatih Yaldiz                       Turkey
●   Ana Gregorič                                  Slovenia
●   Paul MacKinnon                              United Kingdom
●   Christine Pearl                                 United States
●   Fulvio Pellegrini                                Italy
●   Zulkifli Thalib                                      Indonesia
●   Игорь Лобанов                               Russian Federation

Smile

●   Ricky Alexander                              Indonesia
●   Nguyen Duc Tri                                  Vietnam
●   Gerold Guggenbuehl                    Switzerland
●   Arnold Jumpay                               Philippines
●   Anom Manik Agung                      Indonesia
●   Kivera Mara                                     Réunion
●   Diana Mrazikova                             Slovakia
●   Meghann Prouse                            United States
●   Nick Redman                                   United Kingdom
●   Piotr Stasiuk                                      Poland

Split Second

●   Cemhan Biricik                                United States
●   Tobias Bräuning                               Germany
●   Samuel Chan                                   China
●   Andrzej Chrobot                             Poland
●   Alessandro Falco                            Italy
●   Don Horne                                        Ireland
●   Johnny Joo                                      United States
●   Gustavo Magnavacca                 Argentina
●   Greg Parker                                     United Kingdom
●   Peter Prazenka                                Slovakia

Travel

●   Krzysztof Browko                             Poland
●   Krzysztof Browko                                 Poland
●   Marco Lachmann-Anke              Germany
●   John Lai Teck Kee                          Malaysia
●   Carlos Macedonio                         Brazil
●   N S Ng                                               Singapore
●   Keith Pace                                       Malta
●   Suprijanto Suprijanto                      Indonesia
●   George Turnbull                              United Kingdom
●   Malte Wittmann                              Germany

Professional shortlisted photographers

PHOTOJOURNALISM & DOCUMENTARY
Current Affairs

Finalists:
● Fernando Alfonso Brito Lizárraga Mexico
(El Debate de Culiacan)
● Rémi Ochlik (IP3 Press) France

● Donald Weber (VII PHOTO) Canada

Shortlisted:
●   Javier Arcenillas                Spain
●   Fabio Bucciarelli               Italy
●   Pietro Masturzo                Italy
●   Giorgos Moutafis                Greece
●   Goran Tomasevic                United Kingdom

Contemporary Issues

Finalists:
●   Kasia Bielska                    Poland
●   Alessandro Grassani                Italy
●   Gustavo Jononovich                Argentina

Shortlisted:
●   Francesco Giusti                Italy
●   Sebastian Liste                Spain
●   Ivor Prickett                    Ireland
●   Jose Luis Rodriguez Maldonado        Columbia
●   Natasha Shulte                Ukraine
●   Anastasia Taylor-Lind                United Kingdom
●   Donald Weber (VII PHOTO)           Canada

People

Finalists:
●   Alejandro Cartagena                Mexico
●   Maja Daniels                    Sweden
●   Simon Norfolk                   United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●   Philippe Leroux                France
●   Kerry Mansfield                United States
●   Francesca Oggiano                Italy
●   Huage Shang                    China
●   Salvi Danés Vernedas               Spain

Sport

Finalists:
●   Pawel Kopczynski (Thomson Reuters)       Polish
●   Andrew McConnell                Ireland
●   Palmer + Pawel                United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●   Delfosse Colin                    Belgium
●   Alvaro Deprit                    Italy
●   Mikhail Domozhilov                Russian Federation
●   Adam Pretty                    Australia
●   Scott Robin Barbour                New Zealand
●   Robin Utrecht                   Netherlands

Nature & Wildlife

Finalists:
·   David Chancellor (Institute)           United Kingdom
·   Jacek Kusz                   Poland
·   Palani Mohan                   India

Shortlisted:
·   Salil Bera                   India
·   Terence du Fresne               Switzerland
·   Barbara Leven                   United States
·   Suren Manvelyan               Armenia
·   Tapash Paul                   Bangladesh

Arts and Culture
Finalists:
●   Rob Hornstra                    Netherlands
●   Anastasia Taylor-Lind                United Kingdom
●   Mattia Vacca                    Italy

Shortlisted:
●   Javier Arcenillas                Spain
●   Jacek Swierczynski               Poland
●   Yannick Cormier                France
●   Alvaro Deprit                    Italy
●   Susana Girón                   Spain
●   Davide Monteleone                Italy
●   Andrea Santolaya               Spain

COMMERCIAL

Campaign
Finalists:
●   Javier Arcenillas                Spain
●   Peter Franck (Büro stoltenhoff)           Germany
●   Laura Pannack                United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●   Michael Blann                    United Kingdom
●   Felipe Cantillana                Chile
●   Jan von Holleben                Germany
●   Miguel Navarro                United Kingdom
●   Michelle Siu                    Canada
●   Roberto Soares-Gomes            Brazil
●   Daniele Testa                    Italy

Travel
Finalists:
●   Jan Brykczynski                Poland
●   Luis Henry Agudelo Cano            Colombia
●   Peter Franck                   Germany

Shortlisted:
●   Giancarlo Ceraudo                Italy
●   Andrea Hamilton                United Kingdom
●   Cristina De Middel                Spain
●   Yurian Quintanas Nobel            Spain
●   Gianluca Pulcini                Italy
●   Lisa Wiltse                    United States

Fashion
Finalists:
●   Peter Franck                   Germany
●   Elizaveta Porodina                Germany
●   Jayden Tang                    United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●   Michelle Beatty                United Kingdom
●   Susi Belianska                    Italy
●   Romano Decker Dejan Kutic           Croatia
●   Filippo Del Vita                Italy
●   Alice Pavesi                   Italy
●   Dasha Ketsko                    Ukraine
●   Frauke Thielking                Germany

FINE ART

Architecture
Finalists:
●   Igor Chirikov                    Russian Federation
●   David Ibernón Boria               Spain
●   Simon Norfolk                   United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●   Robin Broderick                Canada
●   Riccardo Budini                Italy
●   Tamas Bujnovszky                Hungary
●   Alejandro Cartagena                Mexico
●   Paula Gortazar                United Kingdom
●   David de Jong                Netherlands
●   Michael Joseph                United States

Portraiture
Finalists:
●   Lei Liu                        China
●   Paolo Marchetti                Italy
●   Irina Werning                    Argentina

Shortlisted:
●   Gwenn Dubourthoumieu            The Democratic Republic of Congo
●   Lavinia Parlamenti                Italy
●   Johann Rousselot                France
●   Javier Arcenillas               Spain
●   George Mayer                   Russian Federation

Landscape
Finalists   :
●   Rona Chang                   United States
●   Lee Chee Wai                    Malaysia
●   Mitch Dobrowner                United States

Shortlisted:
●   Regis Boileau                   France
●   Ximena Etchart                Argentina
●   Jeroen Hofman                Netherlands
●   Zhang Kechun                China
●   Matthias H. Risse                Germany
●   Chaoliang Shen                Taiwan, Province of China
●   Stephen Wilkes               United States

Still Life
Finalists:
●   Renan Cepeda                Brazil
●   Rena Effendi (INSTITUTE)               Azerbaijan
●   Helen Thompson                United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●   Michal Cole                    United Kingdom
●   Peter Franck                   Germany
●   Martina Geccelli                United Kingdom
●   Miri Mor                    Israel
●   Song Nian Ang                Singapore
●   Gicheol Shin                    Republic of Korea

Conceptual
Finalists:
●   Manuel Geerinck               Belgium
●   Luis Mallo                    United States
●   Cristina De Middel                Spain

Shortlisted:
●   Carlo D’Orta                    Italy
●   Photographer Hal                Japan
●   Giuseppe Parisi                Italy
●   Carlos Henrique Reinesch            Brazil
●   Sanne Maloe Slecht                Netherlands
●   Frauke Thielking                Germany
●   Patricia van de Camp            Netherlands

Youth shortlisted photographers

Culture

·   Hanne Grannestad               Norway
·   Lam Ka Ho                   Hong Kong
·   Sahil Lodha                   India
·   Merijn Mulder                   Netherlands
·   Carolina Paltrinieri                Italy
·   Adrian Pelegrin Bonet               Spain
·   Kolyaskin Sergey               Russian Federation
·   Benedek Varga               Hungary

Environment

·   Alla Aliokhina                   Ukraine
·   Kolyaskin Sergey               Russian Federation
·   Thamyres Matarozzi               Brazil
·   Adrian Pelegrin Bonet                  Spain
·   Bernard Pieterse               South Africa
·   Imanuel Thallinger               Austria
·   Kazi Sudipto                   Bangladesh
·   Kseniya Sovenko               United States

Portraits

·   Tertious Alio                   Russian Federation
·   Hadi Asgari                   Iran
·   Lidia K                       United Kingdom
·   Darya Kasyanova               Russian Federation
·   Samujjwal Sahu               India
·   Karina Sembe                   Ukraine
·   Kolyaskin Sergey               Russian Federation
·   Felicia Simion                   Romania
·   Marina Tkhorzhevskaya            Russian Federation
·   Berta Vicente                   Spain