See the Better of Almost Half a Million Entries to the Sony World Photography Awards — Colossal

For its nineteenth version, the Sony World Photography Awards welcomed over 430,000 submissions for its Open competitors from photographers in additional than 200 nations and territories across the globe. Ten classes, starting from portraiture to landscapes to journey, embody the staggering breadth and great thing about nature and society captured all through 2025.

The contest has introduced the class winners, together with Robby Ogilvie’s vibrant composition of a classic automotive in entrance of colourful buildings within the Bo-Kaap neighborhood in Cape Town, South Africa, and Klaus Hellmich’s portrait of an arctic fox braving a blizzard.

“The Open competition recognises the best single images taken in the last year,
celebrating the power of an individual image to pique curiosity, spark imagination, and reveal a wider narrative,” says a press release.

The high award of Open Photographer of the Year will likely be introduced on April 16 in London, the day after which the competition’s exhibition opens at Somerset House, the place it stays on view by way of May 4.