Sony World Photography Awards of 2022 announced its winning images for this year, honoring works around migration and climate change.
Scottish photographer Adam Ferguson has been named Photographer of the Year, with his portraits depicting migrants on the irregular trail.
The Scottish photographer was honored for Migrantes, a series of black-and-white self-portraits of migrants in Mexico waiting to cross into the US.
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Croatian photographer Domagoj Burilovic was also the winner in the Architecture & Design category, with his photos under the theme Dorf, which is a German word that means village.
Japanese photographer Shunta Kimura also was rewarded in the Environment category, with the Living in the transition theme.
The Japanese photographer sheds light on climate change and its negative effects on the south-western coast of Bangladesh, which is, according to Kimura “among the most vulnerable areas to the impacts of climate change, and many residents often suffer from its effects.”
Latvian artist and photographer Alnis Stakle has been awarded the Creative prize, following his artistic shootings of art museums, image banks, and scientific institutions.
Stakle stated in the competition that he is interested in the fate of canonised artistic, scientific, and journalistic images and their potential to embody contemporary meanings.
Danish photographer Jan Grarup was awarded in the Documentary Projects category, with his Children of the Financial Collapse in Venezuela theme.
According to the photographer, “children pay the highest price.”
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Hungarian Milan Radisics was named winner of the Wildlife & Nature category, with his shootings of animals.
Radisics spent almost every night for 8 months sitting at the window of his cottage to photograph animals.
Additionally, Italian photographer Lorenzo Poli was awarded in the Landscape category, with the theme of Life On Earth.
“There is an untamed world between sacred and magic, where the essence of life is safeguarded by silence, where the outer and the inner world coincide. This is what I am seeking to photograph, “Poli stated in the competition.
British photographer Hugh Fox was awarded the winner in the Portfolio category, honoring a selection of images he had taken over the past few years.
“For me, this series evokes the quiet, isolated, reflective moments I felt during the pandemic,” he said.
In the Still Life category, both Haruna Ogata and Jean-Etienne Portail were nominated winners for Constellation.
Brazilian photographer Ricardo Teles was awarded the Sports category’s winner, following his shootings of a martial art called Huka-Huka.
Scott Wilson was awarded Open Photographer of the Year for his single images.
Wilson won following his Anger Management shows of a wild mustang kicking dust in Colorado, US.
US photographer Tri Nguyen also was awarded Youth Photographer of the Year 2022 for the Under The Moonlight theme, as he is still a student.
Since 2007, these competitions rewarded some of the most exciting and talented photographers and showcased a huge range of genres, styles, and points of view, according to Sony’s website.
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