Finalists for the World Photography Organisation’s Sony World Photography Awards 2022
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The World Photography Organisation has announced the Professional Finalists and Shortlisted photographs for its Sony World Photography Awards 2022 photo competition.
The competition is now in its 15th year and, in World Photography Organisation’s own words, ‘rewards remarkable series of works both for technical skill and an original approach to contemporary subjects.’ This year, more than 340,000 images from 211 countries and territories were submitted, with over 156,000 of those being entered into the Professional competition—the most ever in the competition’s history.
Of those images, the organizers selected three finalists and projects for each of the 10 categories: Architecture & Design, Creative, Documentary Projects, Environment, Landscape, Portfolio, Portraiture, Sport, Still Life and Wildlife & Nature. Below is a rundown (from World Photography Organisation) of each of the judges who selected the images for this year’s competition:
‘The work of finalist and shortlisted photographers in the Professional competition was judged by: Rahaab Allana, Curator and Publisher, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi; Ângela Ferreira, artist, independent photography curator and postdoc researcher at Escola de Belas Artes Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Brazil; Deborah Klochko, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, United States; Richmond Orlando Mensah, Founder and Creative Director, Manju Journal, Ghana; and Mike Trow, Independent Curator and Photo Editor, Chair of the Jury.’
The winning photograph for the Photographer of the Year 2022 award will be selected from the Professional finalists on April 12, 2022 and will be part of the exhibit set to take place from April 13 through May 2, 2022 at Somerset House in London.
For the following gallery we have selected, at random, one finalist for each of the Professional categories for the Sony World Photography Awards 2022 photo competition. Below is a full list of the finalists and shortlist artists selected by the judges in each category:
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Architecture & Design Finalist
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| © Rene Cassio Scholz, Germany, Shortlist, Professional, Architecture & Design, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards |
Image Name: Barcelona, Spain
Photographer Name: Rene Cassio Scholz
Year: 2022
Image Description: A pearl of Mediterranean architecture. A photo arrangement of 146 individual images.
Series Name: Condensed Urban Landscapes
Series Description: Every city has its own unique history and personality. My city portraits combine the diverse impressions, discoveries and events of a place into one picture.The compositions are inspired by vedute of the 17th and 18th centuries, but in a contemporary reality that includes objects of street art, public art, advertising signs and shopping areas as symbols of everyday urban life. Using digital collage techniques to merge a large number of my individual images, cityscapes turn into something between documentation and staging. All single photos were taken in Spain, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Morocco and Germany.
Copyright: © Rene Cassio Scholz, Germany, Shortlist, Professional, Architecture & Design, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
Creative Finalist
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| © Marius Ionut Scarlat, Romania, Shortlist, Professional, Creative, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards |
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Marius Ionut Scarlat
Year: 2022
Image Description: The funeral of my grandfather, husband of my grandmother Vinica.
Series Name: Dead Country
Series Description: Dead Country is a project that explores the significance of death in Romanian culture and religion. This is a personal project about my grandmother and the relationship she has with death, the objects and clothes that she has collected over the years – and that she will use the day of her funeral. My grandmother lives with death; the orthodox rituals and traditions she follows are daily reminders of her own mortality and that of others.
Copyright: © Marius Ionut Scarlat, Romania, Shortlist, Professional, Creative, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
Documentary Project Finalist
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| © Kyaw Zay Yar Lin, Myanmar, Shortlist, Professional, Documentary Projects, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards |
Image Name: Life Of Volunteer 6
Photographer Name: Kyaw Zay Yar Lin
Year: 2022
Image Description: He is a volunteer in a Covid-19 rescue unit. He wears a PPE suite throughout the day while undertaking his duties. His philanthropy includes spraying biocide in public places, taking contact patients to hospitals and wrapping dead bodies in winding sheets. He transfers cadavers from hospitals, or homes, to the cemetery with other volunteers.This work is stressful and demanding. He prays to see the end of this pandemic as soon as possible. But for now, his work isn’t finished. The volunteers hold funerals in accordance with each religion.They take care of themselves by spraying biocide on each other. Now, all of the volunteers from around the world are busy and tired. They are truly altruistic people, and this essay is to express my respect and pride.
Series Name: Duty of Volunteer During Covid-19
Series Description: He is a volunteer in a Covid-19 rescue unit. He wears a PPE suite throughout the day while undertaking his duties. His philanthropy includes spraying biocide in public places, taking contact patients to hospitals and wrapping dead bodies in winding sheets. He transfers cadavers from hospitals, or homes, to the cemetery with other volunteers.This work is stressful and demanding. He prays to see the end of this pandemic as soon as possible. But for now, his work isn’t finished. The volunteers hold funerals in accordance with each religion.They take care of themselves by spraying biocide on each other. Now, all of the volunteers from around the world are busy and tired. They are truly altruistic people, and this essay is to express my respect and pride.
Copyright: © Kyaw Zay Yar Lin, Myanmar, Shortlist, Professional, Documentary Projects, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
Environment Finalist
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| © Mehdi Mohebi Puor, Iran, Shortlist, Professional, Environment, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards |
Image Name: 10
Photographer Name: Mehdi Mohebi Puor
Year: 2022
Image Description: The few lucky birds that survive will migrate from the lagoon, and may return next year.
Series Name: Painful Death of Birds
Series Description: In recent years, we have witnessed the death of thousands of migratory birds in Iran’s Miankaleh Wetland – the cause is still unknown. This is a set of efforts by environmental forces to collect and bury birds.
Copyright: © Mehdi Mohebi Puor, Iran, Shortlist, Professional, Environment, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
Landscape Finalist
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| © Majid Hojjati, Iran, Shortlist, Professional, Landscape, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards |
Image Name: Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Province – Kurd City – 2021
Photographer Name: Majid Hojjati
Year: 2022
Image Description: A painting of lush nature, with the clean climate of Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari province’s past, is located in the dry desert of this province. The sign reads: ‘I must remember not to do anything that is against the law of the Earth’.
Series Name: The Earth Belongings
Series Description: Life has meaning in human beliefs with its symbols. Mountains, forests, plains, free and beautiful creatures, and clear blue skies are all creations that will come to mind when we hear the word ‘life’. Where it is free from the fence of man, and there is no trace of human presence in it, it is ‘nature’. Where humans stepped in without understanding and respecting the spirit of nature, they endangered the existence of other beings. And then from this soil, nothing but a lifeless body will remain. The mountains will forget the flight of the eagles, and the noble howls of the horses will not be heard in the plains; and even the lion, that king of the forest, will be only a name in the books. These elements belong to the planet and are inseparable from it, without them what is left is a cold, lost and distorted image that no longer resembles anything. Maybe it’s time to weigh what we have taken from nature and what we have given it and measure what we have done with the universe.
Copyright: © Majid Hojjati, Iran, Shortlist, Professional, Landscape, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
Portfolio Finalist
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| © Sara Goli, Iran, Shortlist, Professional, Portfolio, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards |
Image Name: Cycling Alone
Photographer Name: Sara Goli
Year: 2022
Image Description: This photo was taken in Tehran on 25 April 2021.This line directs the eyes, so I added a cyclist . It is fine art.
Series Name: Minimalism Photography
Series Description: All of these photos were taken by me during 2021, in Tehran, Iran. I have tried to present this photography style by using and taking photos of shadows, lines, light and negative space – creatively using fine art skills to change the space to fit my vision.
Copyright: © Sara Goli, Iran, Shortlist, Professional, Portfolio, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
Portraiture Finalist
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| © George Tatakis, Greece, Finalist, Professional, Portraiture, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards |
Image Name: Costumes of Vlachi Ethnic Group
Photographer Name: George Tatakis
Year: 2022
Image Description: Western Macedonia, Veria, Seli. Costumes of Vlachi ethnic group
Series Name: Caryatis 2021
Series Description: Caryatis is a study of Greek women’s traditional costumes deriving from different time periods in Greece’s rich history. This project evolved out of Tatakis’ previous work, Ethos, which looked at Greek traditions and customs. Each photograph is meticulously staged; postures, attitudes and even hand placements depicted are all typical of the area from which the costume originates.
Copyright: © George Tatakis, Greece, Finalist, Professional, Portraiture, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
Sport Finalist
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| © Ricardo Teles, Brazil, Finalist, Professional, Sport, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards |
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Ricardo Teles
Year: 2022
Image Description: Huka-huka’s competitive opening fight.
Series Name: Kuarup
Series Description: The Kuarup is a ritual of the Xingu Indigenous Brazilian to honour the illustrious dead – it is the farewell and closing of a mourning period. The celebration takes place once a year in different villages and lasts for three days. The highlight of this celebration is a competition of a martial art called Huka-huka, similar to the Greco-Roman wrestling fight, which has competitive symbolism that shows the strength and virility of the young men. These photographs were taken during a Kuarup celebration in the Afukuri village of the Kuikuro ethnic group. This year’s ritual honoured the people who lost their lives between the years 2020 and 2021: four of five were victims of Covid-19.
Copyright: © Ricardo Teles, Brazil, Finalist, Professional, Sport, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
Still Life Finalist
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| © Céline Pannetier, France, Shortlist, Professional, Still Life, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards |
Image Name: Moroccan Breakfast
Photographer Name: Céline Pannetier
Year: 2022
Image Description: Fresh goats cheese, special Moroccan breads, olives, honey and (naturally) the unavoidable mint tea.
Series Name: Travel Restriction Breakfast
Series Description: I am a documentary and street photographer: unstaged was my thing… until confinement. Stuck home, I decided to investigate and create a series of playful, colourful pictures, with the food I enjoy. I wanted to play with the clichés that often appear when we are considering other countries’ food. Needless to say, I indulged myself with a few exquisite breakfasts after shooting. (When it comes to the food photography I shoot, I insist that no food is binned).
Copyright: © Céline Pannetier, France, Shortlist, Professional, Still Life, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
Wildlife & Nature Finalist
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| © Amin Mezian, Spain, Shortlist, Professional, Wildlife & Nature, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards |
Image Name: Hardness
Photographer Name: Amin Mezian
Year: 2022
Image Description: A green-eyed carpenter bee, holding a small blue crystal.
Series Name: The Art of the Macro World
Series Description: A series of macro images that show the beauty of insects’ colours and shapes.
Copyright: © Amin Mezian, Spain, Shortlist, Professional, Wildlife & Nature, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
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