{"id":515383,"date":"2026-04-06T06:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515383\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:20:22","slug":"sony-world-photography-awards-2026-the-best-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515383\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony World Photography awards 2026: the best pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"0071c211-0e32-4e0c-b4da-7ec90e313948\">The Sony World Photography awards 2026 exhibition is at Somerset House, London, April 17-May 4; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldphoto.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">worldphoto.org<\/a>. Sunday Times readers can use the code TIMES15 for a 15 per cent discount on tickets until 5pm on May 4.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"3746\"   width=\"5084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/93295b48-805b-4f95-ab02-012204c086c4.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001069323689\" class=\"wp-image-21139738\"\/>Camille Nivollet, France. Teenagers in St Nazaire, France, who are either excluded from school or never enrolled. Instead they run their own experimental school with their teachers (Shortlist, Perspectives)camille nivollet<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"2362\"   width=\"3543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a78e0231-f367-47fb-aa90-7b779aa17ccd.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001069299279\" class=\"wp-image-21139723\"\/>Seamus Murphy, Ireland. A soldier at Fort Riley, a US army base in Kansas. The image is from a series that highlights the similarities of life in postindustrial America and Russia (Shortlist, Documentary Projects)SEAMUS MURPHY<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"2653\"   width=\"3543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2be94d55-b8a2-4090-9e31-d67b12d323d2.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001069299284\" class=\"wp-image-21139725\"\/>Liam Man, UK. An aerial view of the disappearing Leones Glacier in Patagonia, Chile, where Man captured the solar eclipse pictured in the opening image (Shortlist, Landscapes)Liam man<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"2139\"   width=\"3402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b5ecc898-9588-4367-b25c-ef9b3d6e7cac.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001069299304\" class=\"wp-image-21139729\"\/>Ben Brooks, UK. The palm trees of South Central Los Angeles are given a reddish hue thanks to infrared film. The colour is associated with the notorious local \u201cBloods\u201d gang (Finalist, Creative)Ben Brooks<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"3543\"   width=\"2834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3fc8bdea-4077-47fb-a6d0-f71676d96240.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001069299300\" class=\"wp-image-21139726\"\/>Colin Delfosse, Belgium. The performance artist Junior Mungongu wearing a costume made from masks, on the streets of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Finalist, Documentary Projects)Colin delfosse<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"3382\"   width=\"3196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5d21fab4-5ac9-4df6-9ccb-0b281d28f656.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001069299177\" class=\"wp-image-21139718\"\/>James Ross, UK. Ross\u2019s intimate portraits of crows were taken as they scavenged for food on the promenade in his childhood home town, Whitley Bay, near Newcastle (Shortlist, Wildlife and Nature)James Ross<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"2362\"   width=\"3543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3d314bcd-1ef8-412c-92a5-266967488d35.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001069299275\" class=\"wp-image-21139728\"\/>Seungho Kim, South Korea. South Korea\u2019s low birth rate \u2014 less than one child per woman \u2014 means many couples keep pets. Kim\u2019s daughter, Sun, is growing up with a pomeranian (Finalist, Perspectives)seungho kim<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"2143\"   width=\"3543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/986f98bb-e229-4f94-ae51-0f7107906fd8.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001069299288\" class=\"wp-image-21139717\"\/>Hossein Sadri Nobarzad, Iran. These abandoned boats once entertained families on Lake Urmia, formerly Iran\u2019s largest saltwater lake, which has mostly dried up following decades of drought (Shortlist, Environment)hossein sadri nobarzad<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"3543\"   width=\"2835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fbd6067e-be48-4e58-9730-d971c28e8006.jpg\" alt=\"Amy, inked, Horden, UK \/\/ Ed Alcock \/ MYOP\" class=\"wp-image-21139727\"\/>Ed Alcock, UK. Taken from a documentary project on life in the former mining village of Horden, Co Durham. Amy had moved there to \u201cescape a difficult situation at home\u201d (Shortlist, Portraiture)Ed Alcock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sony World Photography awards 2026 exhibition is at Somerset House, London, April 17-May 4; worldphoto.org. 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