{"id":515184,"date":"2026-03-03T03:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515184\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T03:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:51:18","slug":"25-of-the-best-photos-from-the-sony-world-photography-awards-professional-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515184\/","title":{"rendered":"25 of the Best Photos From the Sony World Photography Awards Professional Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Sony World Photography Awards<\/a> have announced the 30 finalists and over 65 shortlisted photographers in the 2026 Professional competition. <\/p>\n

Across this year\u2019s Sony World Photography Awards competitions, including Professional, Open, Student, and Youth categories, photographers from more than 200 countries and territories entered over 430,000 images. <\/p>\n

In the Professional competition, photographers compete across 10 categories, with each photographer entering a series of five to 10 images per category. First-, second-, and third-place winners are selected for each category, along with up to seven shortlisted photographers per category. <\/p>\n

Of the 10 category winners, one will be named the \u201cPhotographer of the Year,\u201d a prestigious honor for one of the world\u2019s biggest photography competitions. The Photographer of the Year will also get a solo exhibition as part of the Sony World Photography Awards show next year in London. This year\u2019s show in April will feature a solo exhibit from last year\u2019s Photographer of the Year, Zed Nelson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe finalist and shortlisted work in the Professional competition for the Sony World Photography Awards 2026 demonstrates a remarkable growth in the craft and commitment to photography as a powerful storytelling medium. Across the many series we judged, I was deeply struck by the celebration of the human experience, and of love, kindness, and quiet resilience woven into complex and often challenging realities. Many of the most powerful images focused on intimate moments and small acts of heroism, revealing the enduring strength and spirit found in everyday life,\u201d says Monica Allende, Chair of the Jury. <\/p>\n

A selection of 25 of the finalists\u2019 photos are featured below, and the complete gallery of all category finalists and shortlisted photographers are available on the Sony World Photography Awards website<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"A\u00a9 Andre Tezza (Brazil), Finalist, Architecture and Design | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"Aerial\u00a9 Andreas Secci (Germany), Finalist, Landscape | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Anita Pouchard Serra (Argentina), Finalist, Wildlife and Nature | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Ben Brooks (United Kingdom), Finalist, Creative | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Chen Liang (China), Finalist, Architecture and Design | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Citlali Fabian (Mexico), Finalist, Creative | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Colin Delfosse (Belgium), Finalist, Documentary Projects | Sony World Photography Awards 2026
\n \"A\u00a9 Dafna Talmor (United Kingdom), Finalist, Landscape | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"Five\u00a9 Federico Borella (Italy), Finalist, Portraiture | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Frerik Lerneryd (Sweden), Finalist, Perspectives | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Gargi Sharma (India), Finalist, Still Life | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Hayate Kurisu (Japan), Finalist, Perspectives | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Isadora Romero (Ecuador), Finalist, Environment | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni (Italy), Finalist, Portraiture | Sony World Photography Awards 2026
\n \"Aerial\u00a9 Joy Saha (Bangladesh), Finalist, Architecture and Design | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Marisa Reichert (Germany), Finalist, Portraiture | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Matteo Trevisan (Italy), Finalist, Environment | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Michael Blann (United Kingdom), Finalist, Landscape | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Morgan Otagburuagu (Nigeria), Finalist, Sport | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Pablo Ramos (Mexico), Finalist, Creative | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Rob Van Thienen (Belgium), Finalist, Sport | Sony World Photography Awards 2026
\n \"Close-up\u00a9 Santiago Mesa (Colombia), Finalist, Documentary | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Seungho Kim (Korea), Finalist, Perspectives | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Todd Antony (New Zealand), Finalist, Sport | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 \"A\u00a9 Will Burrard-Lucas (United Kingdom), Finalist, Wildlife and Nature | Sony World Photography Awards 2026 <\/p>\n

The overall winners in the Student, Youth, Open, and Professional competitions of the Sony World Photography Awards 2026 will be announced on April 16, 2026. <\/p>\n

\u2028Image credits: Sony World Photography Awards<\/a>. Individual photographers are credited in the captions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sony World Photography Awards have announced the 30 finalists and over 65 shortlisted photographers in the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,22279,5428,460,134,6044,2270,61257,59518,22632,33372,169419,187202,85,125149,229681,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-515184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-competition","14":"tag-contest","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-landscape","18":"tag-nature","19":"tag-photocompetition","20":"tag-photocontest","21":"tag-portrait","22":"tag-professional","23":"tag-sonyworldphotographyawards","24":"tag-sonyworldphotographyawards2026","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-street","27":"tag-swpa","28":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}