{"id":593118,"date":"2026-04-19T05:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593118\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:52:20","slug":"sony-world-photography-award-2026-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593118\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony World Photography Award 2026 Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summary\n<\/p>\n<p>Sony announced the winners of the 2026 World Photography Awards<br \/>\nStandout titles include Citlali Fabi\u00e1n (Photographer of the Year), Elle Leontiev (Open Photographer of the Year), Jubair Ahmed Arnob (Student Photographer of the Year) and Philip Kangas (Youth Photographer of the Year)<\/p>\n<p>The winners for this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/sony-world-photography-awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony World Photography Awards<\/a> have arrived. The 2026 victors hail from a pool of over 430,000 images from 200 countries and territories, and the final lineup represents our best, from under-19\u2019s to pros, in a stunning visual celebration of humanity\u2019s many textures.<\/p>\n<p>Citlali Fabi\u00e1n took home the Photographer of the Year title, the competition\u2019s highest honor, for her series \u201cBilha, Stories of my Sisters.\u201d Overlaying digital illustration and portraiture, the series is an ode to the women of the Yalalteca Indigenous community in southern Mexico, emphasizing their achievements and experiences, with hopes to inspire their next generation.<\/p>\n<p>Other overall winners include Australian photographer Elle Leontiev, who secured the Open category win for \u201cThe Barefoot Volcanologist,\u201d and Student Photographer of the Year, Jubai Ahmed Arnob of Bangladesh, for his dreamy studies of landscapes in the face of urban erasure in \u201cThe Place Where I Used to Play.\u201d Meanwhile, Philip Kangas from Sweden took the cake in the Youth category for a journalistic shot of firefighters saving a painting from a fire at Stockholm\u2019s Royal Academy of Fine Arts.\n<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the top spots, gripping compositions and serene, moving scenes caught our eye across the competition. These stories include Documentary Project\u2019s winner Santiago Mesa and his investigation into coca farmers, and Todd Antony\u2019s shots of Tajikistan\u2019s ancient horse-riding sport, buzkashi, which won in Sports. A cinematic morning capture of Myanmar\u2019s young fishermen from Kyaw Zayar Lin and an editorial-ready black-and-white duet portrait by Obaroh Oghenemairo, both of whom won National Awards for Myanmar and Nigeria respectively, also don\u2019t miss.\n<\/p>\n<p>Over 300 winning and shortlisted works from the competition are now on view at London\u2019s Somerset House through May 4. Head to the organization\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldphoto.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">website<\/a> to check out the galleries for yourself and learn more about how to enter next year\u2019s contest.\n<\/p>\n<p>Somerset House<br \/>Strand,<br \/>London WC2R 1LA,<br \/>United Kingdom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary Sony announced the winners of the 2026 World Photography Awards Standout titles include Citlali Fabi\u00e1n (Photographer of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-593118","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-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}