Recently, the list of winners of the professional group of the 2021 Sony World Photography Competition was announced.
Sony World Photography Awards is one of the most influential photography awards in the world. The competition is open to all photographers, including professional photographers, amateur photographers, young photographers and photography students. The event is now the most authoritative voice in the industry, providing a powerful platform for all winners.
In the past year, most people have been restricted to a certain range and cannot conduct photography and field trips everywhere, but the number of participants and the high quality of the entries have made the organizing committee feel deeply moved, and the ultimate display of the beauty and diversity of the earth. From eye-catching aerial photography to vivid portraits, the winners show their superb skills, divergent thinking, and personalized style.
China Photography Network learned from the event organizers that the total number of entries in this competition exceeded 330,000, and the expert judges selected 30 finalists and 58 shortlisted photographers from the professional group.
Professional Group Photographer of the Year Award will be selected from the 30 photographers who entered the finals on April 15, 2021. While winning the title of "Professional Group Photographer of the Year", there will also be a cash prize of US$25,000, a set of Sony digital imaging equipment, and works will be exhibited at Somerset Palace in London, England.
China Photography Network will continue to pay attention to the progress of the event and announce the finals and shortlisted works of each group. Today, we will analyze the award-winning works of "Professional Group-Planning Category" for you.
compiled by: Chen Gan, Zhou Yibeng, Fu Xiaochun,
review: Chen Xiaojun,
final work
▲ "Citizens of Tomorrow" Photographer: Loli Laboureau (Argentina)
This is a set of photography creations that are still in progress. It combines the world we are familiar with in the past with portraits, and describes the modern new life in a dramatic way.
▲ "My Work in 2020" Photographer: Brais Lorenzo (Spain)
Photographer Braise took this set of bitter pictures in Ourense and surrounding areas in the Galician region, discussing local real-time events and other issues. From the impact of the epidemic to forest fires, to the celebration of the festival by locals, the smiley faces in the sadness are even more bitter.
▲ "Overview" Photographer: Laura Pannack (UK)
These photos are from different photography projects of the photographer. All his work is carried out through a research project and photographs taken, among which the most realistic and real-time images are the most important in his work. The photographer believes that the photograph needs to attract and evoke the deep emotions of the reader, so in every frame he takes, elements within and out of the frame interact with each other.
shortlisted work
▲"Collection of Different Works" Photographer: Peter Franck (Germany)
The photos here are composed of 20 to 150 pictures. The photographer's works can be viewed as single photos or as group photos. Nothing is just painting or graphics, nothing is just photography. Photographers believe that different genres can be intertwined and should not limit themselves to a specific genre.
▲ "Mixed" Photographer: Jacob Ehrbahn (Denmark)
Since the spring of 2015, the photographer has reported the stories of refugees and immigrants seeking a better life in Europe; in 2020, he went to Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lesbos.The photographer's book "Dream of Europe" will be published by Dewi Lewis Publishing in the spring of 2021, and will also be published by Gyldendal in the Danish Drømen om Europa. This set of photos will also be published in it.
▲ "Work Collection" Photographer: Alessandro Gandolfi (Italy)
These pictures tell the story of Milan's scientific research, agricultural climate change and food delivery bicycle couriers, as well as Covid-19, social distancing, oxygen production, emergency management and obsession with life, etc.
▲ "Work Collection" Photographer: Marylise Vigneau (French)
These are all pictures performed during Covid-19, with portraits of a bird dealer, a strange scene on the streets of Samarkand, Christmas pictures, etc. intertwined... These photos are diaries from the past few months, but in the eyes of photographers, they are connected to each other.
▲ "Seeing Blind" Photographer: OKOBÉ (Spain)
One of the things the photographer said that after he remembered, he could still remember was sitting on his great-grandmother's thigh. She is a blind man, and the content of her conversation with the photographer is the world she imagines. Later, the photographer realized that for great-grandmother they did not have any problems such as skin tone.
Unfortunately, this is not the case in the society we were born in. Racism—whether subtle or open—has already been racially conscious since photographers were young. There are no black references around him, neither in art nor history books nor on TV. Over time, photographers began to connect their art with their great-grandmother. As his muse, she was blind and they would embrace the darkness in a way that ordinary people could not imagine. Because black is beautiful.
▲ "Where My Feet Takes Me to" Photographer: Kayode Moyosade (Nigeria )
Group of photos represents the photographer's life and mental state in the turbulent 2020. From architectural photos to selfies taken in “The Confinement” to filming Negi (a finalist for a popular reality show), to filming a nationwide protest ending the confinement. For the photographer, 2020 was a very interesting year, both spiritually and professionally, and it was a showcase of his personal growth.
▲"XX" Photographer: Ilka & Franz (UK)
This set of works blurs the boundaries between disciplines, and the photographer team applies aesthetics and humor to still life paintings, portraits and movies. The use of colors is vivid and bold, with conceptual backgrounds with childlike innocence. Draw inspiration from pop culture, kitsch and surrealism and make an interesting transition in the average person.
