Sony World Photography Awards announces its shortlisted entries for 2016

Date
24 February 2016
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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Salt Cleansing by Owee

Sony World Photography Awards has released its shortlisted entries for the 2016 professional, open, and youth competitions. Chaired by Dominique Green, an honorary jury has recognised the best of contemporary photography from the last year, chosen from a record-breaking 230 103 entries.

The 2016 professional competition, judged by a specialist panel that includes BBC global news website picture editor Emma Lynch and photography critic and curator Mariko Takeuchi, celebrates nine series that capture key current affairs stories from around the globe.

Chaired by Time Out group picture editor Jael Marschner, the open competition shortlist celebrates the diverse work of photography enthusiasts of all ages and backgrounds across ten categories including, architecture, enhanced, smile, split-second and travel.

Winning and shortlisted images from the 2016 awards will be showcased at the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House from 22 April – 8 May.

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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: 336591-1405866 by Gabriele Micalizzi

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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Sinai park 06 by Andrea & Magda photographers

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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Ukraine crisis – The east by Amnon Gutman

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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: * by Dmitry Ivanov

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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Global warming bath by Christian Spreng

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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Water from under. by Nils Olof Wendel

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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Empty transit by Lake Lewis

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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Nouveau riche by taliarudofsky

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Milly Burroughs

Milly Burroughs (@millyburroughs2.0) is a Berlin-based writer and editor specialising in art, design and architecture. Her work can be read in magazines such as AnOther, Dazed, TON, Lux, Elephant, Hypebeast and many more, as well as contributing to books on architecture and design from publishers Gestalten and DK. She is It’s Nice That’s Berlin correspondent.

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