Childhood, Winner, Open Competition, Lifestyle category: children weaving in and out of giant cones … [+]
The World Photography Organisation has unveiled the category winners and shortlisted images in the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023, showcasing the best single photos from 2022.
More than 415,000 images from 200-plus countries and territories were submitted to the competition Sony World Photography Awards 2023 with over 200,000 entered into the Open competition.
Each winner receives digital imaging equipment from Sony and will go on to compete for the prestigious Open Photographer of the Year title and a $5,000 prize.
The overall winner of the Open competition will be announced at the Awards ceremony in London on April 13.
Selected winning and shortlisted images will be shown as part of the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at London’s Somerset House from April 14 – May 1, 2023.
The prestigious, free to enter international competition, now celebrating its 16th year, is a global voice for contemporary photography spanning a large array of photographic styles and subjects, from wildlife and natural landscapes to surreal street photography.
The categories in the Open competition include portraiture, travel, natural world and wildlife, lifestyle, landscape, architecture, creative, motion, object and street photography. All the Sony World Photography Awards winners and shortlisted photos can be seen here.
Shortlist, Open Competition, Lifestyle category
Natural World & Wildlife
Mighty Pair, Winner, Open Competition, Natural World & Wildlife ccategory
A black-and-white portrait taken during a trip in south Texas, features two crested caracara birds perched still and looking out beyond the camera in the same direction, as if posing for the photographer.
Harlequin mantis shrimp, Shortlist, Open Competition, Natural World & Wildlife category
Chinstrap penguin, Shortlist, Open Competition, Natural World & Wildlife category
This chinstrap penguin stood on a floating iceberg near the South Orkney Islands. This image was taken from a boat and no bait was used.
Pouncing owl, Shortlist, Open Competition, Natural World & Wildlife category
Creative
White and Black, Shortlist, Open Competition, Creative category
The Electricia, Winner, Open Competition, Creative category
A haunting black-and-white portrait of two women from different generations, reminiscent of the visual language of 1940s family portraits.
Dog in laundry room, shortlist, Open Competition, Creative category
Portraiture
Charlie, Winner, Open Competition, Portraiture category
Charlie, shot center of the frame, is a young teenager who, along with his friends, decided to turn an abandoned pub car park into a skatepark when most of them were closed during the pandemic.
Pretty in pink, Shortlist, Open Competition, Portraiture category
Taking a break, Shortlist, Open Competition, Portraiture category
Street Photography
Exhausted, Winner, Open Competition, Street Photography category
‘Exhausted’ is an evocative black-and-white portrait of men at the point of collapse after lifting and carrying heavy wooden frames with statues showing biblical scenes through the streets of Andalusia during the traditional Easter processions of ‘Semana Santa’.
Beach and plastic, Shortlist, Open Competition, Street Photography category
Landscape and Travel
Greek mountains, Winner, Open Competition, Landscape category
A Greek landscape looms over a hiker climbing Mount Tymfi, which rises majestically in the background overlooking Pindus National Park.
Nature colors, Shortlist, Open Competition, Landscape category
When the moon, Shortlist, Open Competition, Landscape category
Ghosts, Winner, Open Competition, Travel category
‘Ghosts’, a dramatic black-and-white photograph of the Mundari tribe of South Sudan, depicts a herder among the nightly fires he and his fellow tribesmen light to keep the tsetse flies and mosquitoes off their beloved Ankole-Watusi cows.
Colors of the train, Shortlist, Open Competition, Travel category
Tower in the water, Shortlist, Open Competition, Travel category