2019 Sony World Photography Awards Now Open For 12th Edition
We are delighted to invite all photographers to enter the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards. Celebrating the finest contemporary photography from the past year, the Awards are FREE to enter and offer amazing prizes, vast exposure, visibility, and opportunities to photographers worldwide.
CHOOSE BETWEEN FOUR COMPETITIONS
- Professional – outstanding bodies of work between 5-10 images across ten categories
- Open – rewarding the world’s best single images across ten categories
- Youth – a single brief for emerging talent aged 12-19
- Student – for photography students across the globe
BRAND NEW CATEGORIES
The 2019 Awards sees the introduction of two challenging new categories in the Professional competition: Brief and Documentary. Brief asks photographers to compose a body of work on a specific theme. The inaugural theme for this year is “Identity”. Documentary is a new category for bodies of work portraying facts about a chosen subject, giving insight into contemporary issues and news.
INCREDIBLE PRIZES AND EXPOSURE
All category winners of the Professional, Open, Youth and Student competitions will receive digital imaging equipment from Sony. In addition, cash prizes of $25,000 (USD) will be presented to the Photographer of the Year and $5,000 (USD) to the Open Photographer of the Year.
All winning and shortlisted photographers will be exhibited at the annual Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition in London and will then be toured internationally. The winning images will also be published in the annual Awards’ book.
BECOME A MONTHLY WINNER
This year, the editors will again be rewarding monthly winners (from June – January, chosen from the best entries to the Open competition). You could win: The Official 2018 Book (worth £39.98), a blog feature showcasing your best work, plus a 20 Image Bundle, so you can enter more images into the Open competition!
Find out more about their monthly prizes here.
DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT INFO
Student: November 30, 2018
Open / Youth: January 4, 2019
Professional: January 11, 2019
Image © Alfio Tommasini, Switzerland, 3rd Place, Professional competition, Contemporary Issues , 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
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Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
