The World Photography Organisation has divulged the winners for the Sony World Photography Awards 2023, which include quite a few Chinese photographers.
Winning photographers in the Professional competition were selected by expert judges. They submitted five to 10 images for consideration. This year’s winners receive Sony’s digital imaging kit. Asia Pacific Middle East (APME) winners include:
Architecture & Design
Fan Li, China Mainland
The shortlist included Mitsuru Sakurai (Japan).
Documentary Projects
2nd place Mohammed Salem (State of Palestine)
The shortlist included Mingrui Liu (China Mainland), Yoese Mariam (Indonesia) and Emin Sansar (Turkey).
The Environment shortlist included Haider Khan (India).
Portraiture
2nd place Ebrahim Noroozi (Islamic Republic of Iran)
The shortlist also named Jae In Lee (Republic of Korea).
Still Life
Kechun Zhang (China Mainland) for his series The Sky Garden
Wildlife & Nature
3rd place Sriram Mural (India)
The shortlist also recognised Masahiro Fujita (Japan) and Aneesh Sankarankutty (India).
Under the Open category the following APME winners and shortlisters were announced:
Architecture shortlist: Donell Gumiran (Philippines), Yichien Lee (Taiwan), Desmond Chien Yew NguM (Malaysia), Yuya Takahashi (Japan), and Beatrice Wong (Hong Kong)
Creative shortlist: Hardijanto Budyman (Indonesia), Yi Han (China Mainland), and Chenghao Zhao (China Mainland)
Lifestyle
Azim Khan Ronnie (Bangladesh)
The shortlist includes: Mohamad Ali Harisi (Lebanon), Sabbir Hossen (Bangladesh) and Zuojian Wang (China Mainland)
Motion
Zhenhuan Zhou (China Mainland)
The Motion shortlist recognises: Leo Huang (Taiwan), Kazutoshi Ono (Japan), and Ata Ranjbar Zeydanloo (Islamic Republic of Iran).
Natural World & Wildlife shortlist: Subrata Dey (Bangladesh), and Mark Fitzsimmons (Australia), and Protap Shekhor Mohanto (Bangladesh)
Object shortlist: Masahiko Abe (Japan), Zeynep Demirhan (Turkey), Xiaoye Jin (China Mainland), Masumi Shiohara (Japan), and Nan Lay Thwe Oo (Myanmar)
Portraiture shortlist: Donell Gumiran (Philippines), Glenn Homann (Australia), and Louis Park (New Zealand)
Street Photography shortlist: Nazly Ahmed (Sri Lanka), Rizwan Hasan (Bangladesh), Chin Leong Teo, Singapore), Takahiro Toh (Japan), and Ting Hao Tseng (Taiwan)
Travel shortlist: Pamela Chiang (Taiwan), Erhan Coral (Turkey), Callie Eh (Malaysia), Takahiro Gamou (Japan), Guojia Li (China Mainland), Yukihito Ono (Japan), İsmail Serhat Şahin (Turkey), Ankur Tambde (India), and Yunhua Yu (China Mainland)
Student Photographer of the Year
For this year’s competition, students were invited to submit a series of five to 10 images responding to the brief In a Changing World, highlighting positive stories of development and progress from across the globe.
Long Jing (China Mainland) of Yunnan Arts University is named Student Photographer of the Year, winning Sony digital imaging equipment worth €30,000 for his university. Jing’s series Keep the Yunnan Opera goes behind the scenes to show the dwindling groups of performers and spectators of the opera in Yunnan.
Jing, who started his photographic studies in high school before continuing at university said: "A picture is worth a thousand words, and my goal has always been to give warmth to images and to uncover the stories behind them. Being chosen as the Student Photographer of the Year 2023 has given me the confidence to believe that I can create even more warm and engaging works in the future."
Student photographers who made it to the shortlist included: Bobby Cheung (China Mainland) from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Kaiyu Dong (China Mainland) at the School of Visual Arts, US, Lidan Xu (China Mainland) studying at Tama Art University, Japan, and Nelly Farmiloe (New Zealand), with Photography Studies College, Australia.
Youth Photographer of the Year
This year's entrants submitted works towards the theme Your Everyday and shared their unique view of the world around them. Selected from a shortlist of seven photographers under the age of 19, 17-year-old Hai Wang (China Mainland) won a Sony digital imaging kit and global exposure.
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| Source: Creo. Photographer Name: Hai Wang Image Name: Untitled Year: 2023 Image description: The opening ceremony for this school in Tianjin, China, was scheduled for September 4, 2022, and more than 2,000 people were expected to attend. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic no one was there. The neat rows of brightly coloured chairs create a strong sense of order in this lonely photograph, where everything seems to be fake. Copyright: © Hai Wang, China Mainland, Youth Photographer of the Year, Youth competition, Sony World Photography Awards 2023 |
Wang’s winning photograph depicts seemingly endless rows of deserted brightly coloured chairs at a school ceremony cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The strong composition and striking framing highlight the sense of emptiness and give a surreal quality to the image.
Wang, who is keen to record everyday life and committed to interpreting the ordinary world from different perspectives said: "I appreciate all the attention and support the public gives to global teenage photographers. As a member of this age group, I can say that we are trying to make a change throughout the world in a brand-new way, to try not to waste a single second of our lives."
The Youth shortlist included Eason Zhang (China Mainland), Edmond Leong (Malaysia), and Emily Cho (Republic of Korea).
This year’s Outstanding Contribution to Photography was awarded to photographer Rinko Kawauchi (Japan).
Kawauchi has achieved international renown for her intimate and
luminous images, capturing ephemeral moments of everyday life.
Born in 1972 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, Kawauchi lives and works in Chiba. Most recently, she opened her solo exhibition M/E: On this sphere Endlessly interlinking in late 2022 at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.
In addition to the work of this year’s overall and category winners, the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition features a solo presentation by the 2022 Photographer of the Year winner Adam Ferguson (Australia). The exhibition features a selection of images from Ferguson's series Silent Wind, Roaring Sky, documenting the remote lives of communities in Australia’s Outback.
Photographer of the Year has been awarded to the photographer Edgar Martins (Portugal) for his series Our War, a
homage to Martins’ friend, photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who was
killed during the Libyan Civil War in 2011. Martins won a US$25,000 cash
prize and a range of Sony digital imaging equipment. Additionally,
Martins receives a solo presentation of his work as part of next year’s Sony World Photography Awards exhibition.
World Photography Organisation is a global platform dedicated to the development and advancement of photographic culture. Its programming and competition initiatives provide valuable opportunities for artists working in photography and help broaden the conversation around their work.
The Sony World Photography Awards is World Photography Organisation’s principal programme. Established in 2007, it is one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious photography competitions, celebrating the work of leading and emerging practitioners and attracting tens of thousands of visitors annually to its exhibitions worldwide. Now in its 16th year, the free-to-enter Awards are a global voice for photography and provide a vital insight into contemporary photography today.
World Photography Organisation is the photography strand of Creo, which is responsible for delivering initiatives and programming across three sectors: photography, film and contemporary art. Other Creo flagship projects include the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards and PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai.
Details
Winning works are now on show at Somerset House in London till 1 May. Book at www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards-exhibition
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