2018 Sony World Photography Award winners for the Open and National competition have been announced on Tuesday with 10 stand-out images being chosen from a staggering 320,000 submissions.
The 10 Open category winners:
- Architecture: Andreas Pohl, German with the image The Man and the Mysterious Tower
- Culture: Panos Skordas, Greek with image Young Minotaur
- Enhanced: Klaus Lenzen, German with image Every Breath you Take
- Landscape & Nature: Veselin Atanasov, Bulgarian with image Early Autumn
- Motion: Fajar Kristianto, Indonesian with image The Highest Platform
- Portraiture: Nick Dolding, British with image Emile
- Still Life: Richard Frishman, American with image Sunday Buffet at Jerry Mikeska’s BBQ; Columbus, Texas 2017
- Street Photography: Manuel Armenis, German with image Old Friends
- Travel: Mikkel Beiter, Danish with image Shapes of Lofot
- Wildlife: Justuna Zduńczyk, Polish with image An Unexpected Meeting
The Sony world photography awards exhibition is at Somerset House, London, 20 April-6 May
Nick Dolding, Open, Portraiture (Open competition), 2018, Sony World Photography Awards
Fajar Kristianto, Open, Motion (Open competition)
Veselin Atanasov, Open, Landscape & Nature
Klaus Lenzen, Open, Enhanced (Open competition)
Manuel Armenis, Open, Street Photography (Open competition), 2018, Sony World Photography Awards
PANOS SKORDAS, Open, Culture (Open competition)
Richard Frishman, Open, Still Life (Open competition), Sony World Photography Awards 2018
Mikkel Beiter, Open, Travel (Open competition), Sony World Photography Awards 2018
Justyna Zduńczyk, Open, Wildlife (Open competition)
Andreas Pohl, Open, Architecture (Open competition)
Myanmar national award second-place winner: Kyaw Win Hlaing
Open enhanced and Czech Republic national award winner: Martin Stranka
Open enhanced and the China national award third-place winner: Zhou Jianguang
Open street photography and Bangladesh national award winner: Md Tofazzal Hossain
Open portraiture and Norway national award winner: Tina Signesdottir Hult
Open travel and Thailand national award third-place winner by Suphakaln Wongcompune
Open enhanced and Vietnam national award second-place winner: Thu Huynh
Open travel and US national award third-place winner: Richard Winston
Open travel and Singapore national award winner: Chin Bong Leng, Sony World Photography Awards 2018
Open travel and Bangladesh national award second-place winner: Md Enamul Kabir, Sony World Photography Awards 2018