Sony World Photography Awards 2026 Shortlist

The Sony World Photography Awards has introduced the profitable and shortlisted photographers of the 2026 National and Regional Awards. The 2026 exhibition opens at Somerset House, London from seventeenth April – 4th May 2026.

The National & Regional Awards programme is an initiative arrange by Sony and Creo beneath its pictures strand, the World Photography Organisation, to help native photographic communities all over the world. Across this 12 months’s competitions, over 430,000 photographs from over 200 international locations and territories have been submitted. National and Regional Award winners have been chosen from the Open, Professional and Student competitions this 12 months highlighting world expertise throughout a span of profession levels. All single nation National Award winners and 1st Place Regional Award winners are featured within the exhibition and obtain Sony Digital Imaging tools. The Professional Award winners and European Student Award shortlist are invited to take part in devoted workshop days in London.

Professional

The Professional competitors contains the Latin America Professional Award, the Japan National Award, and new to 2026, the India National Award. The Latin America Professional Award celebrates dynamic and galvanizing photographic work at the moment created throughout the area. This 12 months Citlali Fabian (Mexico) is awarded 1st Place for Bilha, Stories of my Sisters, which blends portraits and digital illustrations to carry to life the tales of inspiring girls in southern Mexico, collaborating with activists and artists from Indigenous communities within the area. María Fernanda García Freire (Ecuador) is awarded 2nd Place for Study on Flying, a deeply private challenge born from the photographer’s observations of her son’s admiration for birds. André Tezza (Brazil) is awarded third Place for Everyday Structures, shining a light-weight on the modest structure of neighbourhood grocery shops in southern Brazil.

The shortlisted photographers for the Latin America Professional Award are: ● Sebastian Di Domenico (Colombia) ● Sergio Meléndez Cava (Peru) ● Yris Pablo (Venezuela) ● Manuel Seoane (Bolivia) ● Bienvenido Velasco (Panama) ● Benjamin Villela (Chile) ● Irina Werning (Argentina)

The India National Award recognises excellent sequence by Indian photographers getting into the Professional Competition. The inaugural winner is Avijit Ghosh for the sequence Keepers of Mangroves, which captures the conservation efforts of ‘tiger widows’ in Dayapur, India, the place girls who’ve misplaced their husbands to tiger assaults are serving to to revive the tigers’ mangrove ecosystems, to attempt to alleviate battle with the animals.

The 2026 winner of the Japan National Award is Hayate Kurisu, for the sequence Living Photographs, which paperwork the expertise of the photographer and his spouse following the loss of a kid to stillbirth, and the times spent collectively as a household earlier than the cremation, exploring pictures’s relationship to time and grief.

Student

New to the 2026 Awards, the European Student Award recognises excellent pupil initiatives, spotlighting the perfect rising voices from throughout Europe from the Student competitors. Teresa Halbreiter (Germany, University of Applied Sciences Hamburg) is the winner of the inaugural European Student Award for her sequence Stillgestanden (‘Attention!’), which explores the seek for femininity and individuality within the male-dominated establishment of the German Armed Forces, underlining the stress between obedience and self-assertion, toughness and vulnerability.

The general winners within the Student, Youth, Open and Professional competitions of the Sony World Photography Awards 2026 might be introduced on 16 April and can go on show as a part of the exhibition at Somerset House, London (seventeenth April – 4th May 2026). For extra details about upcoming bulletins and winners please go to worldphoto.org.

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