Winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2020 announced!
Pablo Albarenga's Seeds of Resistance
Uruguay's Pablo Albarenga was declared the winner of the Photographer of the Year title for his series 'Seeds of Resistance'. His theme was based on areas in danger from mining and agribusinesses with portraits of activists fighting to conserve them.
(Photo courtesy: Pablo Albarenga, Uruguay, Photographer of the Year, Sony World Photography Awards 2020)
Tom Oldham's Black Francis
Tom Oldham's Black Francis won the Open Photographer of the Year award. In this portrait Charles Thompson (aka Black Francis) was asked to to acknowledge his frustration with photoshoots. He won $5,000.
(Photo courtesy: Tom Oldham, United Kingdom, Open Photographer of the Year, Sony World Photography Awards 2020)
Lily's portrait
Lily's portrait brings historical reference Johannes Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring in an 21st-century twist. This photograph won Alpha Female award.
(Photo courtesy: Lily Dawson-Punshon, United Kingdom, Alpha Female Award winner, Sony World Photography Awards 2020)
Ioanna's Aeiforia
Aeiforia presents night-time photographs of solar panels, wind turbines and battery farms used across the small island of Tilos in Greece which is the first in the Mediterranean to run almost entirely on renewable energy.
Ioanna Sakellaraki won the Student Photographer of the Year award.
(Photo courtesy: Ioanna Sakellaraki, Royal College of Art, Student Photographer of the Year, 2020 Sony World Photography Awards)
Hsien-Pang Hsieh's Hurry
Hurry, features a street performer who is seemingly walking in a hurry but is in fact standing still. Inspired by his experience as a newly arrived student in Germany, Hsien-Pang sees the image as his comment on the intensive pace of life and a reminder others to slow down. It won the Youth Photographer of the Year.
(Photo courtesy: Hsien-Pang Hsieh, Taiwan, Youth Photographer of the Year,Sony World Photography Awards 2020)
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