Slideshow: Winners and Shortlist for the 2022 Sony World Pictures Awards Open Competitors: Digital Pictures Overview

The annual Sony World Pictures Awards has introduced the winners and shortlisted entries for its 2022 Open Competitors. The Open Competitors acknowledges one of the best single photographs submitted in 2021. Over 170,000 photographs had been submitted from across the globe. 100 photographers had been shortlisted whereas 10 total class winners had been chosen.

The Open Competitors was judged by Newsweek Japan’s Director of Pictures, Hideko Kataoka. ‘I loved judging this extensive number of classes from Object to Road Pictures….The images on this competitors every make a coherent visible assertion a couple of state of affairs or explicit circumstance in a sublime visible approach. As may be seen in lots of photographs within the shortlist this 12 months, black and white pictures holds a particular place within the hearts of many photographers. The simplicity of black and white has the facility to distill the content material of a picture, and direct the viewer’s consideration to the topic.’

Every class winner obtained a Sony digicam and different digital imaging gear. The Open Competitors’s total winner, in addition to Pupil, Youth, and Skilled, can be introduced on April twelfth and people chosen will obtain an extra $5,000 money prize. They may also be displayed at an exhibition at London’s Somerset Home from April thirteenth – Might twenty second, 2022.

Extra info on the Sony World Pictures Awards Open Competitors may be discovered at worldphoto.org. It’s all the time free to enter.