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Selected from over 139,000 entries from 166 countries, the highest in the awards’ seven-year history, the winning and shortlisted photographers’ works of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards reflect the very best international contemporary photography from the last year.
Within the exhibition, well-documented scenes are given a fresh look with ground-breaking photography styles, spanning a diverse range of topics that capture and evoke a range of emotions.
Work includes a powerful portrait on domestic abuse by American photographer Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, who won the prestigious L’Iris d’Or Award, alongside work of Italian photographer Salvatore Esposito’s exposure of the secret Napolese Camorra crime syndicate, and Guy Martin’s unusual vision of protesting at the recent Istanbul riots.
Humour also shines through in the exhibition, with the work of French photographer Sophie Gamand. Her series of portraits of dogs caught during their least favourite activity - bath time -offers light relief.
British photographers in the exhibition include the dramatic post-race portraits of jockeys by Spencer Murphy, stunning still life photography by Bristol-based photographer Amanda Harman and a captivating series looking at the very British institution of pantomime dames by Mary Turner.
In addition to the works of winning and shortlisted photographers of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, special curations include: A collection of American photographer Mary Ellen Mark, the recipient of the Sony World Photography Awards’ Outstanding Contribution to Photography, plus exclusive Sony commissions of celebrated photographer William Klein and a group show by Panos Pictures photographers.
The winners of the 2014 awards are on show 1-18 May as part of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition. This year the exhibition has been expanded, being hosted in both the East and West Wings of Somerset House in London, making it one of the largest of its kind in the UK.
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 WinnersShow all 28 1 /28Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners UK Winner, Amanda Harman Still Life category: Harman’s winning story Garden Stories, Hidden Labours is a beautiful series of unintended or ‘accidental’ still lives. The work seeks to make visible the unseen and often unsung work of the gardeners, by revealing small signs of the day-to-day such as the tending of plants; their protection from insects, disease and weather; the nurturing of seedlings and tender plants in the glasshouses; the harvesting, drying and storing of crops, and the gathering of flowers from the garden, to be arranged and placed in the house
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners UK Winner, Amanda Harman Still Life category: Harman’s winning story Garden Stories, Hidden Labours is a beautiful series of unintended or ‘accidental’ still lives. The work seeks to make visible the unseen and often unsung work of the gardeners, by revealing small signs of the day-to-day such as the tending of plants; their protection from insects, disease and weather; the nurturing of seedlings and tender plants in the glasshouses; the harvesting, drying and storing of crops, and the gathering of flowers from the garden, to be arranged and placed in the house
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners UK Winner, Guy Martin Current Affairs category: Martin’s winning series Gezi Park, shows protesters gathering to demonstrate against the construction of another Mosque, mall and shopping district on one of the few slivers of green space still available in city of Istanbul, a city that is becoming increasingly urbanized. Martin’s colourful and bold images give us a glimpse of the drama that evolved in the streets of Istanbul during these weeks in the summer of 2013
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners UK Winner, Guy Martin Current Affairs category: Martin’s winning series Gezi Park, shows protesters gathering to demonstrate against the construction of another Mosque, mall and shopping district on one of the few slivers of green space still available in city of Istanbul, a city that is becoming increasingly urbanized. Martin’s colourful and bold images give us a glimpse of the drama that evolved in the streets of Istanbul during these weeks in the summer of 2013
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners France Winner, Ludovic Maillard Architecture category: Millards’s stunning black and white series Typology of concrete plays homage to the “Boulevard Périphérique de Paris”, Paris monumental ring road, which last year celebrated its 40th anniversary. With his camera Millard explored the ring road, and through his images we get to know the hidden spaces and original shapes often overlooked by pedestrians rushing by. His black and white images are a beautiful testimony to the city landmark the “Boulevard Périphérique de Paris” has become
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners France Winner, Ludovic Maillard Architecture category: Millards’s stunning black and white series Typology of concrete plays homage to the “Boulevard Périphérique de Paris”, Paris monumental ring road, which last year celebrated its 40th anniversary. With his camera Millard explored the ring road, and through his images we get to know the hidden spaces and original shapes often overlooked by pedestrians rushing by. His black and white images are a beautiful testimony to the city landmark the “Boulevard Périphérique de Paris” has become
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Germany Winner, Mario Wezel People category: Wezel’s winning series ”One in eight hundred” is a heartfelt story of a family raising a child with special needs. Through Wezel’s images we get to know five-year-old Emma with Down’s syndrome, who lives with the rest of her family in a small town in Denmark
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Germany Winner, Mario Wezel People category: Wezel’s winning series ”One in eight hundred” is a heartfelt story of a family raising a child with special needs. Through Wezel’s images we get to know five-year-old Emma with Down’s syndrome, who lives with the rest of her family in a small town in Denmark
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners USA Winner, Michael Nichols Nature and Wildlife category: Michael, a respected National Geographic photographer, won this years Nature and Wildlife Category with his stunning series “The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion”. While the lion for most of us is synonymous with wild Africa, few people realise that illegal killing and relentless habitat loss has this species in the grips of a crisis that must be addressed by the world, not just Africa. Michael and his team spent 12 months with these lions documenting their life, with the goal to increase awareness of the plight of the species
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners USA Winner, Michael Nichols Nature and Wildlife category: Michael, a respected National Geographic photographer, won this years Nature and Wildlife Category with his stunning series “The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion”. While the lion for most of us is synonymous with wild Africa, few people realise that illegal killing and relentless habitat loss has this species in the grips of a crisis that must be addressed by the world, not just Africa. Michael and his team spent 12 months with these lions documenting their life, with the goal to increase awareness of the plight of the species
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Italy Winner, Myriam Meloni Lifestyle category: Meloni ‘s winning series, Behind the Absence, gives us hard hitting insight to the life of over 100 000 children in the Republic of Moldova. In the poorest country in Eastern Europe a generation of children is growing up without their parents, as their fathers and mothers have emigrated in search of a job that will enable them to survive, driven by the hope to ensure a better future for their families. Meloni spent time in Moldova documenting the everyday life of these children, left to be raised by their grandparents or placed in ramshackle orphanages originally built in the last century to host orphans from the Second World War
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Italy Winner, Myriam Meloni Lifestyle category: Meloni ‘s winning series, Behind the Absence, gives us hard hitting insight to the life of over 100 000 children in the Republic of Moldova. In the poorest country in Eastern Europe a generation of children is growing up without their parents, as their fathers and mothers have emigrated in search of a job that will enable them to survive, driven by the hope to ensure a better future for their families. Meloni spent time in Moldova documenting the everyday life of these children, left to be raised by their grandparents or placed in ramshackle orphanages originally built in the last century to host orphans from the Second World War
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Brazil Winner, Ricardo Teles Travel category: Teles won the Travel category with his striking series Road of Grains. Through stunning images Road of Grains give us an insight to the everyday life of people working with food production and distribution in Brazil. While food production continue to be a global challenge, estimations from 2013 show that approximately 12% of the total production of soybeans, the equivalent of ten million tons, was lost on the roads in Brazil as result of bad infrastructure. Through bold colours and brilliant story telling, Teles photo reportage illustrates the challenges the people involved face on a day-to-day basis
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Brazil Winner, Ricardo Teles Travel category: Teles won the Travel category with his striking series Road of Grains. Through stunning images Road of Grains give us an insight to the everyday life of people working with food production and distribution in Brazil. While food production continue to be a global challenge, estimations from 2013 show that approximately 12% of the total production of soybeans, the equivalent of ten million tons, was lost on the roads in Brazil as result of bad infrastructure. Through bold colours and brilliant story telling, Teles photo reportage illustrates the challenges the people involved face on a day-to-day basis
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Israel Winner, Roei Greenberg Landscape category: Greenberg’s stunning landscape images depicts a journey through the Israeli landscape, examining the relationship between the natural world and the man-made in a land that has been dramatically changed over the course of history. Each image is a singular peek into this journey - but as a series forms a unique point of view, a quiet, pictorial look over a land that is in constant conflict
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Israel Winner, Roei Greenberg Landscape category: Greenberg’s stunning landscape images depicts a journey through the Israeli landscape, examining the relationship between the natural world and the man-made in a land that has been dramatically changed over the course of history. Each image is a singular peek into this journey - but as a series forms a unique point of view, a quiet, pictorial look over a land that is in constant conflict
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Italy Winner, Salvatore Di Gregorio Sport category: London based Italian photographer Salvatore Di Gregorio won the Professional Sport category with a series called Red Kushti: an old fight. The vibrant images show young men practising Kushti, an ancient art of fighting that goes back to the 5th century BC and is still being practised in India, Pakistan and Iran. The images were in an “Akhara” (school of Kushti), and portray the harshness and mesmerizing physicality of this ancient sport through a series of close-up and ambient shots
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Italy Winner, Salvatore Di Gregorio Sport category: London based Italian photographer Salvatore Di Gregorio won the Professional Sport category with a series called Red Kushti: an old fight. The vibrant images show young men practising Kushti, an ancient art of fighting that goes back to the 5th century BC and is still being practised in India, Pakistan and Iran. The images were in an “Akhara” (school of Kushti), and portray the harshness and mesmerizing physicality of this ancient sport through a series of close-up and ambient shots
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners USA L’Iris d’Or (Overall) Winner, Sara Lewkowicz Contemporary Issues category: Lewkowicz ’ Hard-hitting series “Shane and Maggie” is an intimate examination of domestic violence as a process, as this year’s winner. Through her project Lewkowicz seeks to take a deeper, unflinching look at domestic abuse as a process, as opposed to a single incident, examining how a pattern of abuse develops and eventually crests, as well as its short- and long-term aftereffects on victims, their families, and their abusers
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners USA L’Iris d’Or (Overall) Winner, Sara Lewkowicz Contemporary Issues category: Lewkowicz ’ Hard-hitting series “Shane and Maggie” is an intimate examination of domestic violence as a process, as this year’s winner. Through her project Lewkowicz seeks to take a deeper, unflinching look at domestic abuse as a process, as opposed to a single incident, examining how a pattern of abuse develops and eventually crests, as well as its short- and long-term aftereffects on victims, their families, and their abusers
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners France Winner, Sophie Gamand Portraiture category: Gamand’s winning series Wet Dog is a humorous series of portraits of dogs caught during their least favorite activity: bath time. Exposed at a vulnerable moment, the dogs try to communicate with the photographer with pleading eyes or angry looks. Fascinated by the relationship between dogs and humans, photographer Sophie Gamand captures these expressions in an attempt to better understand this unique interspecies bond
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners France Winner, Sophie Gamand Portraiture category: Gamand’s winning series Wet Dog is a humorous series of portraits of dogs caught during their least favorite activity: bath time. Exposed at a vulnerable moment, the dogs try to communicate with the photographer with pleading eyes or angry looks. Fascinated by the relationship between dogs and humans, photographer Sophie Gamand captures these expressions in an attempt to better understand this unique interspecies bond
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners UK Winner, Spencer Murphy Campaign category: Spencer won the campaign category with his image series Channel 4 Racing - The Original Extreme Sport. The winning series is a number of portraits of jump jockeys post race, showing the extremes the jockeys go to in pursuit of their sport
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners UK Winner, Spencer Murphy Campaign category: Spencer won the campaign category with his image series Channel 4 Racing - The Original Extreme Sport. The winning series is a number of portraits of jump jockeys post race, showing the extremes the jockeys go to in pursuit of their sport
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners USA Winner, Thomas Brummett Conceptual category: Brummett’s winning series, Light Projections, is a beautiful series of prints. All the Light Projection are unique and one of a kind silver analogue prints
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners USA Winner, Thomas Brummett Conceptual category: Brummett’s winning series, Light Projections, is a beautiful series of prints. All the Light Projection are unique and one of a kind silver analogue prints
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Italy Winner, Viviana Peretti Arts and Culture category: Peretti’s stunning black and white series Dancing Like a Woman portrays young drag queens attending the National Bambuco Gay Pageant in Bogata, Colombia. During the contest, young drag queens challenge each other wearing traditional Colombian clothes and dancing the bambuco, a regional, folkloric characterized by the elegance of its movements and precious dresses
Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Winners Italy Winner, Viviana Peretti Arts and Culture category: Peretti’s stunning black and white series Dancing Like a Woman portrays young drag queens attending the National Bambuco Gay Pageant in Bogata, Colombia. During the contest, young drag queens challenge each other wearing traditional Colombian clothes and dancing the bambuco, a regional, folkloric characterized by the elegance of its movements and precious dresses
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