The World Photography Organisation has announced the category winners and shortlists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Open competition. This contest recognizes the best single shots from 2022, and it’s a truly marvelous collection of images from all over the world.
We’ll have to wait a bit more for the overall winner of the contest. But we bring you a winner of each of the ten categories, plus a selection of shortlisted images. And to be honest, there are so many exquisite images, that I had a really hard time narrowing down the selection.
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Nearly half a million images from over 200 countries and territories were submitted to the Sony World Photography Awards 2023. Out of those, over 200,000 were entered into the Open competition. Can you imagine the tough choices the judges had to make choosing the winner? But an even tougher choice is yet to be made, as the category winners will go on to compete for the 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 April 13, 2023. Selected winning and shortlisted images will be shown as part of the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House in London from 14 April-1 May 2023. You can find out more on Sony World Photography Awards website, and now I leave you to enjoy the photos from this year’s selection.
Category winners
© Zhenhuan Zhou/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Motion category
© Azim Khan Ronnie/Sony World Photography Awards 2023: Lifestyle category
© Andreas Mikonauschke/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Street Photography category
© Sukhy Hullait/ Sony World Photography Awards 2023, Portraiture category
© Giorgos Rousopoulos/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Landscape category
© Mieke Douglas/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Object category
© Max Vere-Hodge/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Travel category
© Mark Benham/Sony World Photography Awards 2023: Architecture category
© Dinorah Graue Obscura/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category
© Boris Eldagsen/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Creative category
Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Open contest, shortlists selection
© Martin Rickett/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Motion category
© Marcio Esteves Cabral/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category
© Kathryn Mussallem/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Lifestyle category
© Jose Manuel Grandio/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category
© Jordi Coy/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Landscape category
© Jean Veron/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Lifestyle category
© ?smail Serhat ?ahin’/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Travel category
© Fabian Pfeifhofer/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Travel category
© Bing Li/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Landscape category
© Alex Pansier/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category
© Adrian Pearce/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Lifestyle category
© Vince Burton/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category
© Takahiro Toh/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Street Photography category
© Subrata Dey/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category
© Stan De Zoysa/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Street Photography category
© Kjell Vikestad/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Architecture category
© Zacarías Abad Torres/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Motion category
© Gemma Sains/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Portraiture category
© Glenn Homann/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Portraiture category
© James Hunter/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category
© Jonathan Damslund/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Portraiture catefory
© Kinga Wnuk/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Creative category
© Mariola Glajcar/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Creative category
© Ninoshka Pais/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Lifestyle category
© Roberto Pavi?/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Landscape category
