The Sony World Photography Award winners have just been announced. The Open and Youth winners along with the inaugural Mobile Phone winner of the world’s biggest photography competition have scooped prizes in the world's biggest photographic competition.
Drawn from the four corners of the world and covering a vast array of subjects, the winning entries were chosen from over 96,000 entries to the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards. In total 183,737 images were submitted in to the competition with 87,505 Professional entries, over 79,000 Open entries, 6,675 Youth entries and 10,293 Mobile Phone entries.
The amazing achievement of each of the 14 winners is extraordinary not only in terms of the competition they faced, but also the fact that these winners are largely not professional photographers, instead they are simply individuals who love photography. The youngest winning photographer is Stephanie Anjo from the United Kingdom who is just 14 years old and the winners are geographically spread from Mexico to Malaysia.
See all the winners below...
2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Jaime Massieu(01 of16)
Open Image ModalSpain Winner Open Split Second 2015
Antoine Weis(02 of16)
Open Image ModalSwitzerland Winner Open Nature and Wildlife (credit:Antoine Weis)
Yasen Georgiev(03 of16)
Open Image ModalBulgaria Winner Open Travel (credit:Yasen Georgiev)
Wilson Lee(04 of16)
Open Image ModalHong Kong Winners Open Smile 2015 (credit:Wilson Lee)
Saleh Rozati(05 of16)
Open Image ModalIran Winners Open People 2015 (credit:Saleh Rozati)
Norman Quinn(06 of16)
Open Image ModalUnited Kingdom Winner Open Panoramic 2015 (credit:Norman Quinn)
Nick Ng Yeow Kee(07 of16)
Open Image ModalMalaysia Winner Open Low Light 2015 (credit:Nick Ng Yeow Kee)
Antony Crossfield(08 of16)
Open Image ModalUnited Kingdom Winner Open Enhanced 2015 (credit:Antony Crossfield)
Hector Muñoz Huerta(09 of16)
Open Image ModalMexico Winner Open Arts and Culture 2015 (credit:Hector Muñoz Huerta)
Armin Appel(10 of16)
Open Image ModalGermany Winner Open Architecture 2015 (credit:Armin Appel)
Yong Lin Tan(11 of16)
Open Image ModalMalaysia Winner Youth Environment 2015 (credit:Yong Lin Tan)
Beatriz Rocha(12 of16)
Open Image ModalPortugal Winner Youth Culture (credit:Beatriz Rocha)
Stephanie Anjo(13 of16)
Open Image ModalUnited Kingdom Winner Youth Portrait (credit:Stephanie Anjo)
Turi Calafato(14 of16)
Open Image ModalItaly Winner Mobile Phone (credit:Turi Calafato)
Janos M Schmidt (15 of16)
Open Image ModalHungary 2nd Mobile Phone Winner (credit:Janos M Schmidt)
Ako Salemi(16 of16)
Open Image ModalIran 3rd Mobile Phone Winner (credit:Ako Salemi)
Talking about the winners, Judging Chair Sam Barzilay comments “Judging at the Sony World Photography Awards was a journey of unexpected discoveries. Dozens of hidden gems, playful compositions, subtle commentaries, and fleeting moments caught in time - all speak of the love for photography shared by the participants, and their desire to share the world as they see it.”