The Professional competition is looking to reward and showcase the world’s most outstanding bodies of work. At the pinnacle of the competition is the title of "Photographer of the Year", one of the most distinguished and highly regarded awards in photography.
The overall winner is chosen each year by the expert jury from among the first place winners of the ten Professional categories: Architecture, Brief, Creative, Discovery, Documentary, Landscape, Natural World & Wildlife, Portraiture, Still Life, and Sport.
The past winners of the “Photographer of the Year” title are: Vanessa Winship (2008), David Zimmerman (2009), Tommaso Ausili (2010), Alejandro Chaskielberg (2011), Mitch Dobrowner (2012), Andrea Gjestvang (2013), Sara Naomi Lewkowicz (2014), John Moore (2015), Ashgar Khamseh (2016), Frederick Buyckx (2017) and Alys Tomlinson (2018).
Sony World Photography Awards has four competitions:
Professional - Recognising outstanding bodies of work (closes January 11, 2019 - 1300 GMT)
Open - Rewarding the world’s best single images (closes January 4, 2019 - 1300 GMT)
Youth - Best single images by photographers aged 12-19 (closes January 4, 2019 - 1300 GMT)
Student - For photography students worldwide (closes November 30, 2018 - 1300 GMT)
☆Donation:
Lee Miller – Man Ray: Fashion, Love, War
Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence
Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
2023 Taoyuan International Art Award
Paik’s Video Study
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)
Sebastião Salgado – Amazônia
A Peek through the Iron Curtain with Sibylle Bergemann’s Wintry Duo
Lingering in Time : Koo Bohnchang’s Photography 1990 - 2021
