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Three amateur British photographers have been named winners in the Sony World Photography Awards.
Stephanie Anjo, who is just 14 from Guilford in Surrey, has won the Youth Portraiture Category with a picture of her young cousin with her arms raised looking up to the sky.
Speaking about her image “Mellow Memories”, the school girl said: “This is a candid shot of my little cousin in her happiest state taken in my grandma’s garden in Portugal.”
'Perfect Symmetry' by Norman Quinn Norman Quinn, an architect from Belfast, has won the Open Panoramic Category with his photograph titled “Perfect Symmetry”, which shows two huge cranes dominating the Belfast skyline at sunset.
The image has been stitched together using editing software to create an impressive panoramic.
Show all 40 1 /40Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Current Affairs category shortlist - from the series "Black days of Ukraine" by Valery Melnikov, Russia Series Description: In 2014 the conflict between rebels and the government army in Ukraine led the country to the full-scale hostilities. The local residents of the strategically located city of Luhansk were left without water and electricity for three months over the summer, while constant gunfire could be heard above their heads. According to the Federal Migration Service, more than 800 thousand Ukrainian citizens had to be relocated as a result of the conflict
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Landscape category shortlist - from the series "When I Am Laid In Earth" by Simon Norfolk, UK Series Description: These fire lines I have drawn indicate where the front of the rapidly disappearing Lewis Glacier was at various times in the recent past. In the distance, a harvest moon lights the poor, doomed glacier remnant; the gap between the fire and the ice represents the relentless melting. Relying on old maps and modern GPS surveys I have rendered a stratified history of the glacier's retreat. Photographing time's thickness, trying to expose it's 'layeredness,' is something I've been attempting in different settings and through different channels for the last dozen years. It seems entirely appropriate to make these images here. Mount Kenya is the eroded stump of a long-dead, mega-volcano. Photographically, I hope to re-awaken its angry, magma heart. My fire is made from petroleum
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Travel category shortlist - from the series "Overnight at the beach" by Adhi Prayoga, Indonesia Series Description: Once a year, thousands of people will come to the beach Seger to perform the ritual ceremonies. They came to the location a few days before the main event. Even their stay at the beach with family and friends. At the peak of the event they will go down kepantai start at 4 am, to catch a type of marine worm nyale multicolor
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Lifestyle category shortlist - from the series "Those who save lives, 2" by JM Lopez, Spain Series Description: The new death threat in Aleppo comes from the sky in the shape of barrels full of TNT. They are launched from helicopters of the regime and they can reduce a building of five floors to rubble and dust. These home-made bombs are cheaper than a missile or a conventional rocket but their destructive power is much higher, this kind of weapon has killed more than 2.000 people since last January. One day Al-Assad's Army destroyed a whole block with a Scud missile in the neighborhood of Ard Al-Hamra killing a lot of people trapped under rubble because there wasn't any specialized rescue team. That day the Civil Defense Units were created with the aim of being the first ones to arrive and save as many lives as possible. Since then 135 people work in shifts of 24 hours 7 days a week in five different places inside the city of Aleppo
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Landscape category shortlist - from the series " Series Name: Ganges, Death of a River" by Giulio di Sturco, Italy Series Description: The Ganges is a prime example of the unresolved contradiction between man and the environment. The Ganges is a river intimately connected with every aspect of Indian life. It is a source of water, energy and livelihood for millions of people who live along the banks of this river and thanks to the fertile land, it provides food to more than one-third of the Indian population. It's ecosystem also includes one of the most numerous and varied animal and plant species. Despite this, today it is one of the most polluted rivers in the world because of toxic waste factories dump in its water every day, damaging human health and the environment that surrounds it. What will happen tomorrow? Is the Ganges destined to die under the blows of humanity, or can we hope for change?
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Lifestyle category shortlist - from the series "Cat Mother " by Ramil Gilvanov, Russia Series Description: Series of images from the life of photographer's family
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: People category shortlist - from the series "Swedish dads" by Johan Bavman, Sweden Series Description: No other country provides such generous terms of parental leave as Sweden. The current system allows parents to stay at home with their child during 480 days in total – while receiving an allowance from the State. Out of these 480 days, sixty must be taken by the father or else are lost. Legislation is underway to reserve another thirty days for paternity leave. The purpose of this allocation is to improve gender equality. In order to promote a more equal sharing of parental leave between men and women, a so called equality bonus has also been introduced. The more days that are shared between parents, the higher the bonus. A couple may receive up to 1 500 euro in bonus. In spite of the generous allowance and bonus – unique in their kind – only a fraction of Sweden’s dads use all their sixty days of parental leave. Even fewer parents choose to share the days equally between mother and father
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: People category shortlist - from the series "One hundred and forty centimetres" by Sabine Lewandowski, Germany Series Description: 1 in 700 babies are born with Down syndrome. Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal abnormality in new-borns. Specialists call it trisomy 21. Down syndrome is not a disease - it is not curable. People with Down syndrome have often physical and mental impairments that make them different from others. Since 2012 it has been possible to determine by means of non-invasive tests before birth whether a child will have Down's syndrome, as necessary, initiate an abortion. The photo series "one hundred and forty centimetres" raises questions about our relationship with the stigma of "living with impairment," and the technical possibilities to determine this even before birth
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Architecture category shortlist - from the series "Home" by Joanna Balas, Poland Series Description: The word "home" we associate primarily with family and warmth. This is the place where we always want to go back to and where we feel safe. They are usually cosy and neat. Such houses encourage our friends to visit with pleasure. This series shows homes in Morocco, which are slightly different from our concept of home
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Still Life category shortlist - from the series "Animal Behaviour" by Kimmo Metsaranta, Finland Series Description: In the series I have constructed still live images using cats. Animals have their own will and they will not pose at the behest of the photographer
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Travel category shortlist - from the series "erial Views Adria" by Bernhard Lang, Germany Series Description: Aerial photographs of the adriatic coastline between Ravenna and Rimini, Italy. Photographed in August 2014. As thousands of sun worshipers lazed on the golden sands, sheltering underneath massive beach umbrellas, photographer Bernhard Lang took these photographs
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Still Life category shortlist - from the series "Greenvironment" by Mong-Yong Sim, Malaysia Series Description: This set of images takes you on a journey to explore different aspects of “green”. From new life bursting out from the cracks on concrete walls to molds that lay quietly against red bricks. You’ll be amazed how much “green” you have missed in your everyday life. If you pay more attention to your surroundings, you’ll notice the tubes underneath a pot of hanging plant actually makes nice stand for it. You’ll also find that branches struggle to get away from the glossy window so that you’ll get to see them greeting you. Greenvironment wishes to send out a friendly reminder so that we all cherish the green around our environment
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Conceptual category shortlist - from the series "Futuristic Archaeology" by Daesung Lee, Republic of Korea Series Description: Still 35% of Mongolians are living a nomadic life and depend on their land for survival. This is increasingly difficult due to serious changes: 25% of the Mongolianland has turned into desert in the past 30 years. Potentially 75 % of Mongolian territory is at risk of desertification. These environmental changes directly threaten the Mongolian nomadic way of life, which has been passed from generation to generation. This project attempts at recreating the museum diorama with actual people and their livestock in a real place where decertifying in Mongolia. It is based on an imagination that these people try to go into museum diorama for survival in the future. This is accomplished with printed images on a billboard placed in conjunction with the actual landscape horizon. I hope to accomplish a sense that the lives of these nomadic people occur between this reality and a virtual space of a museum. Mongolian traditional nomadic lifestyle might be existed only in museum in the future
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Campaign category shortlist - from the series "Lidos Of England: Lost & Found" by Jonathan Syer, UK Series Description: Lidos were perhaps at their most popular between the wars when people took their holidays here in England. Many of them were built in the 1930s or earlier and were naturally located on the English south coast, which was a favoured holiday destination for those living in London and the home counties. However there were many that were built in towns and cities to cope with the demand that once was and many of these remain. However, when the affordability of overseas holidays started to emerge in the 1960s many of these lidos fell into decline and have never recovered. Some have survived and have benefitted from investment and so have taken on a new lease of life as popularity has started increasing again. Most have been left to decay or lost under modern developments, such as Ramsgate's once booming pool which is now under a car park. The ones remaining are desperately clinging on while campaigns are fought to save them from disappearing completely, relics of a lost golden age
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Institute, United Kingdom, SHORTLIST, category shortlist - from the series "Glasgow; Second City of The Empire. On the run up to the Scottish Referendum" by ougie Wallace, UK Series Description: London’s Kensington & Chelsea has the UK’s highest life expectancy at birth. I looked at this Glasgow community and the day-to-day lives of its inhabitants. I’m interested in commuters and capturing people on public transport. My intention was to juxtapose Glasgow with the setting of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Being from Glasgow, I am moved by what I perceive to be missing chunks of life and the bleakness of those shortened lives lived in the Calton, a small pocket of Glasgow, compared to those lived in Kensington and Chelsea. The difference in fortunes is not only apparent in mortality but in the cut of their suits and coats, the accessories they carry, the way the women apply their make-up, even their expressions tell a tale – confident and haughty vs downtrodden and malnourished. Using my trademark style of pathos vs bathos and my method of getting up close to my subjects I produced a series of pictures that give an important social account as well as entertain my viewer
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Portraiture category shortlist - from the series "Hair" by Jens Juul, Denmark Series Description: The hair is an intimate part of a person. Hair has some symbolic value: ideas of beauty, strength, eroticism, individuality, sensuality, masculinity, and femininity are closely linked to the hair. “When I bike to school and kindergarten with my children in the morning, we pass a hairdresser’s, which is frequented daily by local residents. I was working intensely on another project at the time, but the idea just gripped me.” “I started visiting different hair salons to capture the moment where we let other people get intimately close and shape the way the world sees us.” “When I meet ordinary people, I’m intrigued by the fact that they have so many fascinating stories and interesting personalities. You don’t have to go to distant places to experience drama and the unknown. The odds are, you’ll find both right around the corner. In this case the stories were found at the local hairdresser.” The project is not yet finished – there is still so much to discover in Copenhagen’s hair salons
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Sport category shortlist - from the series "Underwater Grace" by Jonathan Yeap Chin Tiong, Singapore Series Description: Black and white treatment was chosen for this series of images to further enhance the body form underwater. It leaves the viewers a sense of space frozen in time and the subjects "floating"
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Travel category shortlist - from the series "Faces" by Farid Sani, Iran Series Description: This series is comparing faces and colors of four different cities which is describing culture of the people are living there. Each Image is a puzzle from different doors in each city. First Image : Venice Second : Tehran Third : Spandau Forth : Berlin
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Travel category shortlist - from the series "ici on vit nu" by Peter Franck, Germany Series Description: Travel will be shown with this photo series as a standstill.The pictures show motorhomes , caravans and their environment. They have arrived at the end of their journey and everything seems to persist in standing still. The travelers are gone, leaving the stage and the beach lonely again. Only a few anglers and a dog populate this scenery. A peculiarly quiet and deserted atmosphere is created. Planned as a movable places they are now arrested in this standstill
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Contemporary Issues category shortlist - from the series "First Sight" by Brent Stirton, South Africa Series Description: WEST BENGAL, INDIA 21 OCTOBER 2013: Blind girls Sonia, 12, and Anita Singh, 5, are born into poverty with congenital cataract blindness. They must accompany their parents everywhere as they cannot be left alone without risk. The surgery to cure this is simple and takes 15 minutes but because of the level of poverty in this family they have been unable to pursue the necessary operation. India has more than 12 million blind, the majority of which suffer from cataract blindness. Poverty is the main reason these millions of people are trapped in this condition. Donor funding has recently enabled both sisters to finally go for this operation. This essay is an attempt to tell the story of their lives before surgery, during the operation to regain their sight and after as they begin to discover light
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Current Affairs category shortlist - from the series "Ukraine. Kiev. Euromaidan" by Vladyslav Musiienko, Ukraine Series Description: Euromaidan was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on the night of 21 November 2013 with public protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti ("Independence Square") in Kiev, demanding closer European integration. The scope of the protests expanded, with many calls for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and his government. The protests ultimately led to the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Many protesters joined because of the violent dispersal of protesters on 30 November and "a will to change life in Ukraine". By 25 January 2014, the protests had been fuelled by the perception of "widespread government corruption", "abuse of power", and "violation of human rights in Ukraine". The protests reached a climax during mid-February
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Contemporary Issues category shortlist - from the series "A Life Apart: The Toll of Obesity " by Lisa Krantz, USA Series Description: For years, Hector Garcia Jr. battled severe obesity and all its consequences: the pain, the ridicule and the lost hopes. After years of repeatedly gaining and losing hundreds of pounds, Garcia, who at one point weighed 636 pounds, once again was stuck in the back bedroom of his parents' modest house, in San Antonio, Texas. His weight put him in a category known as severely obese, which makes up about 6.3% of the U.S. population. The rate of severe obesity is growing faster than the rate of people who are merely overweight. Neither the state nor local health agencies track the percentage of people with severe obesity, which is more dangerous than lesser degrees of obesity because it raises the likelihood of dying prematurely - one recent study suggests 14 years early - from heart disease, cancer and diabetes. An untold number of people with severe obesity live in isolation like Garcia, unable to find or access the medical and psychological help they need to combat its pervasive effects
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Contemporary Issues category shortlist - from the series "Une Crise Humanitaire" by Corentin Fohlen, France Series Description: Region Iriba in eastern CHAD - June 2014: In eastern Chad , in the area of Iriba (north of Abeche ) , Sudanese refugee camps in Darfur are installed since 2004. The climatic conditions and the presence of the desert are a brake on development of any form of sufficient agriculture to feed people .Here the refugees are entirely dependent on distributions from the World Food Programme (WFP) . The removal of 60% of food rations leave these people in an even more vulnerable position. Region Gore , southern CHAD - May 2014. Since January 2014, the lack of donor funding has forced the Program World Food (WFP) to reduce by 60% the food rations in refugee camps Central, located in Chad. The latest newcomers struggle to survive. They arrive exhausted, sick and malnourished. They fled the violence raging for months in Central Africa. Since the cuts rations , the rate of malnutrition among children has increased dramatically and worried humanitarian agencies can no longer cope
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Professional competition: Sport category shortlist - from the series "Sweat and blood" by Marcin Klocek, Poland Series Description: In the Ryogoku district of Tokyo are many heyas (beyas) - training quarters, where sumo wrestlers train and live. Very few of them let outsiders into the heya to watch their practice. However if one has a special invitation or is lucky then the experience of seeing the national sport of Japan at close distance and the wrestlers in all their sweat and blood is unforgettable. And if you are extremely lucky you can even rub shoulders with the great Yokozuna himself
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Open competition: Split Second category winner: "Suspended animation" by Jaime Massieu Marcos, Spain
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Open competition: People category winner: "Don Bohlul from Isfahan" by Saleh Rozat, Iran
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Open competition: Travel category winner: "Winter dream" by Yasen Georgiev, Bulgaria
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Open competition: Smile category winner: "Happiness" by Wilson Lee, Hong Kong
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Open competition: Arts & Culture category winner: "Quetzalcoatl" by Héctor Muñoz Huerta, Mexico
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Open competition: Architecture category winner: "Schoolyard" by Armin Appel, Germany
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Open competition: Enhanced category winner: "Bomb" by Antony Crossfield, UK
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Open competition: Nature & Wildlife category winner: "Wildlife in the city" by Antoine Weis, Switzerland
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Open competition: Low Light category winner: "Early Dawn " by Nick Ng Yeow Kee, Malaysia
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Open competition: Panoramic category winner: "Perfect Symmetry" by Norman Quinn, UK
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Youth competition: Environment category winner: "Back alley" by Yong Lin Tan (age 19), Malaysia
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Youth competition: Culture category winner: "Cante Alentejo" by Beatriz Mota da Rocha (age 15), Portugal
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Youth competition: Portraits category winner: "Mellow Memories" by Stephanie Anjo (age 14), UK
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Mobile Phone competition: 3rd place - "Fighting" by Ako Salemi, Iran
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Mobile Phone competition: 2nd place - "Nyugati" by Janos M Schmidt, Hungary
Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Mobile Phone competition: Winner - "A day on the beach" by Turi Calafato, Italy
Anthony Crossfield, who works as an artist in London, has been named winner of the Open Enhanced Category for his picture taken of a man doing a bomb dive into water.
He said the image, which shows the swimmer just about to enter the water, was intended to “undermine stereotypes of masculine strength and power”.
Anthony Crossfield's 'Bomb' The image is a digital construction from multiple photographs taken in London and the Sussex coast in July 2014.
The winners of all ten Sony Awards Open Categories including Culture, Environment and Travel have been announced today.
The winning photographs were chosen from a record 177, 444 submissions from photographers around the world.
The overall winning Open and Youth photographer will be announced at a gala ceremony in London on 23 April.
The images will go on show at Somerset House in London from 24 April – 10 May.
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