Belgian photographer Frederik Buyckx named Photographer the Year and wins $25,000 prize for best photography series
Best single shot awarded to Russian photographer Alexander Vinogradov
Ten further photographers recognized for bodies of work in the Professional competition
Martin Parr honored with Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize
Winning images exhibited at Somerset House, London 21 April - 7 May
Images available for publication at press.worldphoto.org
Frederik Buyckx's winning series Whiteout captures the transformation of nature when winter arrives. Judges called the work beautiful' and hope the series will inspire photographers to capture elegance and not overlook the importance and beauty of what is present in our everyday.
London, 20 April 2017: The World Photography Organisation today names Belgian photographer Frederik Buyckx as the Sony World Photography Awards' 2017 Photographer of the Year. The Awards' judges were challenged to find the best photographic series and were taken by the beauty, scale and effort involved in Buyckx's winning work titled Whiteout .
The 2017 Awards received over 227,000 entries from 183 countries and is the world's largest photography competition. An exhibition of all the winning and shortlisted work, along with rare image by British photographer Martin Parr, recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize, will run at Somerset House, London from 21 April - 7 May.
Chosen from the winners of the Awards' ten Professional categories, Chair of Judges Zelda Cheatle says of Frederik Buyckx's photographs: I have chosen a series of landscapes so that we may return to the essence of looking at photography. Landscape is often overlooked but it is central to our existence. These are beautiful pictures made by a serious photographer, and they are to be enjoyed. I hope this award will inspire many more photographers to take pictures that do not simply encompass the terrible aspects of life in these troubled times but also capture some of the joys and loveliness in each and every environment.
Buyckx was revealed as the Photographer of the Year and presented the $25,000 (USD) prize at an awards ceremony in London attended by international industry experts. At the same ceremony, the category winners of the Professional competition were announced, along with the overall winners of the Open, Youth and Student competitions.
Scott Gray, CEO, World Photography Organisation comments: I am especially proud of this year's selection of Photographer of the Year. I feel that in many cases it is easy to shock but that it can be so tremendously difficult to capture a sophisticated elegance, that really is so beautiful it shows the medium of photography at its best.
All winning photographers were flown to the London awards ceremony and received the latest Sony digital imaging equipment as their prize.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the Sony World Photography Awards annually recognize and rewards the finest contemporary photography from the last year. Free to enter and open to all photographers, the awards are an authoritative voice in the photographic industry that has the power to shape the careers of its winning and shortlisted photographers. The 2018 Sony World Photography Awards open for entries on June 1, 2017.
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR - FREDERIK BUYCKX, BELGIUM
Born in Antwerp in 1984, Frederik Buyckx is a freelance photographer for the Belgian newspaper De Standaard. Buyckx's images have been published and exhibited internationally and most recently he was shortlisted for the ZEISS Photography Award.
The winning series Whiteout was taken in the Balkans, Scandinavia and Central Asia, remote areas where people often live in isolation and in close contact with nature. Buyckx explains: There is a peculiar transformation of nature when winter comes, when snow and ice start to dominate the landscape and when humans and animals have to deal with the extreme weather. The series investigates this struggle against disappearance.
PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY WINNERS AND FINALISTS
An expert panel of international judges were challenged to find the best photography series (between 5-10 images) across the ten Professional categories. The winning and finalist photographers are:
Architecture winner: Dongni, China
2nd - Julien Chatelin, France / 3rd - Diego Mayon, Italy
Conceptual winner - Sabine Cattaneo, Switzerland
2nd - Gao Peng, China / 3rd - Alexander Anufriev, Russian Federation
Contemporary Issues winner - Tasneem Alsultan, Saudi Arabia
2nd - Li Sony, China / 3rd - Lorzenzo Maccotta, Italy
Current Affairs & News winner - Alessio Romenzi, Italy
2nd - Joe Raedle, United States / 3rd - Ivor Prickett, Ireland
oDaily Life winner: Sandra Hoyn, Germany
2nd - Christina Simons, Iceland / 3rd - Alice Cannara Malan, Italy
Landscape winner: Frederik Buyckx, Belgium
2nd - Kurt Tong, United Kingdom / 3rd - Peter Franck, Landscape
oNatural World winner: Will Burrard-Lucas, United Kingdom
2nd - Ami Vitale, United States / 3rd - Christian Vizl, Mexico
oPortraiture winner: George Mayer, Russian Federation
2nd - Romina Ressia, Argentina / 3rd - Ren shi Chen, China
Still Life winner: Henry Agudelo , Columbia
2nd - Shinya Masuda, Japan / 3rd - Christoffer Askman, Denmark
Sport winner: Yuan Peng, China
2nd - Eduard Korniyenko, Russian Federation / 3rd - Jason O'Brien, Australia
OPEN PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR - ALEXANDER VINOGRADOV, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Mathilda by Russian photographer Alexander Vinogradov was selected as the best single photograph in the world and awarded the photographer $5,000 (USD) along with the Open Photographer of the Year title.
Vinogradov is an amateur photographer based in Moscow and his winning image is a portrait of a young girl, inspired by
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Belgian photographer Frederik Buyckx named Photographer the Year and wins $25,000 prize for best photography series
