Tribute to photojournalist wins the Photographer of the Year title in Sony World Photography Awards

Edgar Martins (Portugal) has received the Photographer of the Year title in the Sony World Photography awards for his challenge honouring his pal and photojournalist Anton Hammerl who was kidnapped and killed on 5 April 2011 by authorities militia, throughout the Libyan Civil Warfare.

Martins’ work, ‘Our Warfare’, was chosen as the profitable challenge from the 10 class winners of the Skilled competitors. His photos, and people of the different class winners, alongside some of the second- and third-placed photographers might be seen at Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset Home in London from the 14th of April to the 1st of Might 2023.

The exhibition additionally options works by the recipient of this year’s Excellent Contribution to Photography award, the esteemed Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi.

In addition to the Photographer of the Year title, Edgar Martins wins a $25,000 (USD) money prize and a variety of Sony imaging gear. He’s additionally granted a solo presentation of his work as half of subsequent year’s Sony World Photography Awards exhibition.

Skilled Class Winners

All the class winners obtain Sony’s digital imaging equipment, this year’s winners are:

Structure and Design
Winner: Fan Li (China Mainland) for his sequence Cement Manufacturing unit

Finalists: 2nd place Servaas Van Belle (Belgium); third place Andres Gallardo Albajar (Spain)

Inventive

Winner: Lee-Ann Olwage (South Africa) for her sequence The Proper to Play

Finalists: 2nd place Noemi Comi (Italy); third place Edoardo Delille & Giulia Piermartiri (Italy)

Documentary Tasks

Winner: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham (United Kingdom) for his sequence The Girls’s Peace Motion in Congo

Finalists: 2nd place Mohammed Salem (State of Palestine); third place Tariq Zaidi (United Kingdom)

Atmosphere

Winner: Marisol Mendez (Bolivia) & Federico Kaplan (Argentina) for his or her sequence Miruku

Finalists: 2nd place Jonas Kakó (Germany); third place Axel Javier Sulzbacher (Germany)

Panorama

Winner: Kacper Kowalski (Poland) for his sequence Occasion Horizon

Finalists: 2nd place Bruno Zanzottera (Italy); third place Fabio Bucciarelli (Italy)

Portfolio

Winner: James Deavin (United Kingdom) for his submission Portfolio

Finalists: 2nd place Marylise Vigneau (France); third place Marjolein Martinot (Netherlands)

Portraiture

Winner: Edgar Martins (Portugal) for his sequence Our Warfare

Finalists: 2nd place Ebrahim Noroozi (Islamic Republic of Iran); third place Jean-Claude Moschetti (France)

Sport

Winner: Al Bello (United States) for his sequence Feminine Professional Baseball Participant Succeeds in All Male Professional League

Finalists: 2nd place Andrea Fantini (Italy); third place Nicola Zolin (Italy)

Nonetheless Life
Winner: Kechun Zhang (China Mainland) for his sequence The Sky Backyard

Finalists: 2nd place Carloman Macidiano Céspedes Riojas (Peru); third place Jagoda Malanin (Poland)

Wildlife and Nature

Winner: Corey Arnold (United States) for his sequence Cities Gone Wild

Finalists: 2nd place Adalbert Mojrzisch (Germany); third place Sriram Mural (India)

Open Photographer of the Year

This competitors celebrates the energy of a single picture and it was received by Dinorah Graue Obscura (Mexico) who receives a $5,000 (USD) money prize and Sony digital imaging gear.

Pupil Photographer of the Year

College students had been invited to submit 5 to 10 photos on the theme ‘In a Altering World’, highlighting constructive tales of improvement and progress from throughout the world. The competitors was received by Lengthy Jing (China Mainland) of Yunnan Arts College. Together with the title, Pupil Photographer of the Year, Lengthy Jing received his college €30,000’s value of Sony digital imaging gear.

Youth Photographer of the Year

The theme for this year’s Youth competitors was ‘Your On a regular basis’. It was received by Hai Wang (China Mainland, 17 years-old) whose work was chosen from a shortlist of 7 by photographers below the age of 19.

Sustainability Prize

Alessandro Cinque (Italy) has been introduced as the first winner of the Sustainability Prize. He receives a $5,000 money prize and a presentation of his challenge as half of the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition in London.

This new prize was developed in collaboration with the United Nations Basis and Sony Photos’ Image to recognise the tales, folks and organisations whose actions spotlight one of the United Nations’ environmental Sustainable Growth Objectives.

Cinque received the prize for his sequence ‘Atrapanieblas’ (Fog Nets) which paperwork an progressive answer serving to to sort out power water shortages in Lima, Peru.

Excellent Contribution to Photography

This year’s Excellent Contribution to Photography award was bestowed on Rinko Kawauchi who’s regarded to be one of the most necessary Japanese photographers working right this moment.