04 Sony World Photography Awards Profeional, Open and You shortlists announced

Record number of entries - 139,554 images from 166 countries worldwide

Fresh and ground-breaking contemporary imagery by international photographers

Shortlisted work to go on show at London's Somerset House in May

Images available for publication at press.worldphoto.org or via Image.net

The shortlist for the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, one of the world's leading photography competitions, is revealed today by the World Photography Organisation.

Photographers from 166 countries submitted nearly 140,000 images, the highest number of entries in the awards' seven year history. From the submissions the judges have selected an eclectic shortlist representing the very finest in international contemporary photography from the past 12 months.

The judges found within the submissions many stories which force the viewer to find something surprising within the everyday. Well-documented scenes were approached with fresh and ground-breaking photography styles and are set to inspire other photographers around the world.

W.M Hunt, Chair of the Honorary Jury, said that the shortlist is a healthy and diverse representation of contemporary photography by an international range of practitioners.

He added that the judges were a soulful and hardworking group who have given both emerging and established photographers a global platform on which they can be highlighted and celebrated.

To this Astrid Merget, Creative Director of the World Photography Organisation, also adds: I have had the pleasure of witnessing the careful selection and ultimate revelation of the shortlist for seven years now and the results are never less than utterly gratifying. Year upon year, we are fortunate enough to receive thousands of entries across each category of our awards, making the process of discovery an invigorating experience. This year is no exception and the awards have once again provided us with an impressive collection of photographs, spanning dozens of genres, styles, locations and subject matters.

All the shortlisted images will go on show at Somerset House, London, from 1-18 May as part of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition. Tickets are now available at www.worldphoto.org/2014exhibition. The winning and finalist images will also be published in the 2014 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards book.

The winners of the Open and Youth categories will be announced on 18 March.

Professional category winners and the coveted L'Iris D'Or/ Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year title will be announced at a gala ceremony in London on 30 April.

The L'Iris D'Or winner will receive $25,000 (USD) and the Open Photographer of the Year will receive $5,000 (USD). All winners, including category winners, will receive the latest digital imaging equipment from Sony.

SHORTLIST

Professional Competition

The Professional categories were judged by the Honorary Jury made up of:

W.M Hunt, Strategist, US (Chair); Simon Barnett, Director of Photography, CNN Digital, US; Poorna Bell, Lifestyle Editor, The Huffington Post, UK; Hannah Brenchley, Picture Editor, Tatler, UK; Ruth Eichhorn, Director of Photography, GEO, Germany; Harry Hardie, Panos Pictures/ HERE Press, UK; Guy Harrington, Director, Soho Management, UK; Isabella Icoz, Art Advisor, Turkey; Johanna Neurath, Design Director for Thames & Hudson Publishing, UK and Matthew Pillsbury, Photographer, US.

Rules: Open to all photographers entering a body of work (minimum of three and maximum of 10 images per category). Judges were required to choose up to three finalists, from which one winner will be selected, and up to seven shortlisted photographers per professional category. The winners of the 14 Professional categories will be announced on 30 April 2014.

*Photographers are listed alphabetically

Architecture

Finalist

Sungseok Ahn, Korea

Ludovic Maillard, France

Herman Van Den Boom, Belgium

Shortlist

Peter Bucko, Slovakia

Axel Fassio, Italy

Nick Frank, Germany

Jakub Skokan, Czech Republic

Jan Stel, Netherlands

Gesche Wuerfel, United States

Arts & Culture

Finalist

Chloe Bartram, Australia

Viviana Peretti, Italy

Elisa Sturaro, Italy

Shortlist

Marcelo Del Pozo, Spain

Glenna Gordon, United States

Suvra Kanti Das, Bangladesh

Reiner Riedler, Austria

Mary Turner, United Kingdom

Campaign

Finalist

Morten Germund, Denmark

Spencer Murphy, United Kingdom

Shortlisted

Martin Brent, United Kingdom

George Logan, United Kingdom

Gonzaga Manso, Spain

Conceptual

Finalist

Thomas Brummett, United States

Hao Li, Taiwan

Frauke Thielking, Germany

Shortlist

Salvatore Calafato, Italy

Xutong Huang, China

Marcel van Nieuwenhuijsen, Netherlands

Yoshiharu Ota, Japan

Contemporary Issues

Finalist

Alejandro Cegarra, Venezuela

Stanislav Krupar, Czech Republic

Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, United States

Shortlisted

Javier Arcenillas, Spain

Kate Geraghty, Australia

Kacper Kowalski, Poland

Moritz Kuestner, Germany

Annalisa Natali Murri, Italy

Hiroto Sekiguchi, Japan

Christian Werner, Germany

Current Affairs

Finalist

Daniel Kitwood, United Kingdom

Guy Martin/Panos, United Kingdom

Esposito Salvatore, Italy

Shortlist

Mohammed Alshaikh, Bahrain

K. M. Asad, Bangladesh

Melissa Golden, United States

Mark Henley, Switzerland

Stacy Kranitz, United States

Ramin Mazur, Moldova

Mikhail Mordasov, Russia

Landscape

Finalist

Matthew Baum, United States

Roei Greenberg, Israel

Kacper Kowalski, Poland

Shortlist

Yukari Chikura, Japan

Emmanuel Coupe -Kalomiris, Greece

Axel Fassio, Italy

Jeremie Lenoir, France

Alma Photos, Italy

Arjen Schmitz, Netherlands

, China

Lifestyle

Finalist

Myriam Meloni, Italy

Michael Petrov, Russia

Esposito Salvatore, Italy

Shortlisted

Jean-Marc Caimi, Italy

Viktor Lyagushkin, Russia

Viviana Peretti, Italy

Iveta Vaivode, Latvia

Nature & Wildli

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