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OPEN COMPETITION 2023

14/03/2023

CATEGORY WINNERS & SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

EXHIBITION: 14 APRIL 1 MAY 2023 | SOMERSET HOUSE, LONDON

The World Photography Organisation is pleased to announce the category winners and shortlist in the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023, recognising the best single shots from 2022.

Over 415,000 images from over 200 countries and territories were submitted to the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 and over 200,000 were 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 (USD) prize.

The overall winner of the Open competition will be announced at the Awards' ceremony in London on 13 April. Selected winning and shortlisted images will be shown as part of the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House from 14 April-1 May 2023.

The ten category winners are:

ARCHITECTURE

Mark Benham (United Kingdom) for The Silos, a collage-like image of silos and surrounding buildings in eye-catching rosy hues at the Port of Brest in France.

LANDSCAPE

Giorgos Rousopoulos (Greece) for his image of a Greek mountain landscape featuring a hiker climbing up Mount Tymfi, standing majestically in the background and overlooking Pindus National Park.

LIFESTYLE

Azim Khan Ronnie (Bangladesh) for Childhood, capturing children weaving in and out of scores of giant cones (topas) in a Bangladeshi rice processing plant as they play with a cart used by workers to carry and dry rice.

MOTION

Zhenhuan Zhou (China Mainland) for Slam on the Brakes, capturing a cowgirl in a barrel racing competition in Ontario, Canada. In these competitions, cowgirls ride around barrels with the quickest one crowned as the winner.

NATURAL WORLD & WILDLIFE

Dinorah Graue Obscura (Mexico) for Mighty Pair, a black-and-white portrait taken during a trip in South Texas, featuring two crested caracara birds standing still and looking out beyond the camera in the same direction, as if posing for the photographer.

OBJECT

Mieke Douglas (Netherlands) for Recycled, all is not as it seems in a trompe l'oeil shot of flower-like plastic bags and tulle arranged as a bouquet, inviting us to take a second look.

PORTRAITURE

Sukhy Hullait (United Kingdom) for Charlie, a portrait shot centre-frame of 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.

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

Andreas Mikonauschke (Germany) for Exhausted, an evocative black-and-white portrait of men at the point of exhaustion 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'.

TRAVEL

Max Vere-Hodge (United Kingdom) for Ghosts, a dramatic black-and-white photograph of the Mundari tribe of South Sudan appearing among the nightly fires they light to keep the tsetse flies and mosquitoes off their beloved Ankole-Watusi cows.

This year's Open competition was judged by Eric Schlosser, Art Director, Tbilisi Art Fair, Georgia.

The overall winners in the Student, Youth, Open and Professional competitions of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 will be announced on 13 April 2023 and will go on display as part of the exhibition at Somerset House, London from 14 April-1 May 2023. For more information about winners and shortlists please visit www.worldphoto.org

OPEN COMPETITION 2023 WINNERS AND SHORTLIST

ARCHITECTURE

Category Winner

Mark Benham, UK

Shortlist

Robert Bolton, UK

Tony Cowburn, UK

Fabio Del Ghianda, Italy

Peter Dulis, Canada

Donell Gumiran, Philippines

Yichien Lee, Taiwan

Angiolo Manetti, Italy

Desmond Chien Yew Ngu, Malaysia

Margit Lisa Roeder, Germany

Yuya Takahashi, Japan

George Turnbull, UK

Kjell Vikestad, Norway

Albrecht Voss, Germany

Beatrice Wong, Hong Kong

CREATIVE

Shortlist

Elli Asker, Azerbaijan

Nicolas Bigot, France

Hardijanto Budyman, Indonesia Enda Burke, Ireland

Bilal EL Harousse, Morocco

Mariola Glajcar, Poland

Yi Han, China Mainland

Peter Irungu, Kenya

Richard Poe, USA

Angel Ros Die, Spain

Namukolo Siyumbwa, Zambia

Kinga Wnuk, Poland

Chenghao Zhao, China Mainland

LANDSCAPE

Category Winner

Giorgos Rousopoulos, Greece

Shortlist

Olivia Bennett, UK

Isabel Bielderman, Netherlands

Robert Bilos, Croatia

Jordi Coy, Spain

David Del Rosario Da vila, Spain

Gill Fry, Australia

Judith Kuhn, Germany

Bing Li, Canada

Roberto Pavic , Croatia

Michael Prince, USA

Martin Rak, Czech Republic

Andreja Ravnak, Slovenia

Indirani Thevar, India

Marcin Zajac, Poland

LIFESTYLE

Category Winner

Azim Khan Ronnie, Bangladesh

Shortlist

Francesco Bambi, Italy

Ruth Chamberlain, UK

Raffaella De Luise, Italy

Mohamad Ali Harisi, Lebanon

Sabbir Hossen, Bangladesh

Jessica Innemee, Netherlands

Kathryn Mussallem, Canada

Ninoshka Pais, Canada

Markus Pasa, Austria

Jean Veron, France

Zuojian Wang, China Mainland

MOTION

Category Winner

Zhenhuan Zhou, China Mainland

Shortlist

Zacari as Abad Torres, Spain

Pedro Luis Ajuriaguerra Saiz, Spain

Kristian Hvidtfeldt Buus, Denmark

Ricardo Garci a Mainou, Mexico

Gabriel Hernandez, Spain

Leo Huang, Taiwan

Andres Moreno, Colombia

Francesco Junior Mura, Italy

Raido Nurk, Estonia

Kazutoshi Ono, Japan

Ata Ranjbar Zeydanloo, Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Martin Rickett, UK

NATURAL WORLD & WILDLIFE

Category Winner

Dinorah Graue Obscura, Mexico

Shortlist

Vince Burton, UK

Charly Cle risse, France

Subrata Dey, Bangladesh

Patrick Ems, Switzerland

Marcio Esteves Cabral, Brazil

Mark Fitzsimmons, Australia

Pietro Formis, Italy

Jose Manuel Grandio, Spain

James Hunter, USA

Arnfinn Johansen, Norway

Andrea Michelutti, Italy

Protap Shekhor Mohanto, Bangladesh

Alex Pansier, Netherlands

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