Sony World Photography Awards: Open Category Winners and Shortlist Revealed

The #worldphotographyorganisation is pleased to announce the category winners and shortlist in
the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023, recognising the best single
shots from 2022.

Over 415,000 images from over 200 countries and territories were submitted to the Sony World
Photography Awards 2023 and over 200,000 were entered into the Open competition. Each winner
receives digital imaging equipment from Sony and will go on to compete for the prestigious 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 13 April. Selected winning and shortlisted images will be shown as part of the Sony World
Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House from 14 April-1 May 2023.The ten category winners are:

ARCHITECTURE
Mark Benham (United Kingdom) for The Silos, a collage-like image of silos and surrounding
buildings in eye-catching rosy hues at the Port of Brest in France.

CREATIVE
Boris Eldagsen (Germany) for PSEUDOMNESIA | The Electricia, a haunting black-and-white portrait
of two women from different generations, reminiscent of the visual language of 1940s family
portraits.

LANDSCAPE
Giorgos Rousopoulos (Greece) for his image of a Greek mountain landscape featuring a hiker
climbing up Mount Tymfi, standing majestically in the background and overlooking Pindus National
Park.

LIFESTYLE
Azim Khan Ronnie (Bangladesh) for Childhood, capturing children weaving in and out of scores of
giant cones (topas) in a Bangladeshi rice processing plant as they play with a cart used by workers
to carry and dry rice.

MOTION
Zhenhuan Zhou (China Mainland) for Slam on the Brakes, capturing a cowgirl in a barrel racing
competition in Ontario, Canada. In these competitions, cowgirls ride around barrels with the
quickest one crowned as the winner.

NATURAL WORLD & WILDLIFE
Dinorah Graue Obscura (Mexico) for Mighty Pair, a black-and-white portrait taken during a trip in
South Texas, featuring two crested caracara birds standing still and looking out beyond the camera
in the same direction, as if posing for the photographer.

OBJECT
Mieke Douglas (Netherlands) for Recycled, all is not as it seems in a trompe l’oeil shot of flower-like
plastic bags and tulle arranged as a bouquet, inviting us to take a second look.

PORTRAITURE
Sukhy Hullait (United Kingdom) for Charlie, a portrait shot centre-frame of a young teenager who,
along with his friends, decided to turn an abandoned pub car park into a skatepark when most of
them were closed during the pandemic.

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Andreas Mikonauschke (Germany) for Exhausted, an evocative black-and-white portrait of men
at the point of exhaustion after lifting and carrying heavy wooden frames with statues showing
biblical scenes through the streets of Andalusia during the traditional Easter processions of ‘Semana
Santa’.

TRAVEL
Max Vere-Hodge (United Kingdom) for Ghosts, a dramatic black-and-white photograph of the
Mundari tribe of South Sudan appearing among the nightly fires they light to keep the tsetse flies
and mosquitoes off their beloved Ankole-Watusi cows.

This year’s Open competition was judged by Eric Schlosser, Art Director, Tbilisi Art Fair, Georgia.
The overall winners in the Student, Youth, Open and Professional competitions of the Sony World
Photography Awards 2023 will be announced on 13 April 2023 and will go on display as part of the
exhibition at Somerset House, London from 14 April-1 May 2023. For more information about winners
and shortlists please visit www.worldphoto.org