15 Photos to Inspire You to Enter the Sony World Photography Awards 2027

The Sony World Photography Awards 2027 stay open for entry, and the World Photography Organization immediately introduced the judges for this yr’s competitors, the twentieth version of the Sony World Photography Awards. As a part of the announcement, the Sony World Photography Awards shared 15 images already entered into this yr’s competitors, and they’re incredible.

Over its two-decade-long historical past, the Sony World Photography Awards have grown into a large and really prestigious images competitors. Photographers entered over 430,000 photographs in final yr’s competitors, creating many difficult selections for the judges. This yr’s judges will certainly have an equally robust job.

In the Series competitors, which encompasses a new “Histories” class this yr, the judges are Monica Allende, Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo, Peipei Han, Candice Jansen, Amanda Renshaw, and Pauline Vermare. This group of six consists of curators, photographers, and editors from organizations worldwide.

The new Histories class asks photographers to discover private, cultural, and collective histories via a sequence of photographs. The successful initiatives will interact with the previous and current, and entrants are even inspired to make the most of archival supplies as a part of their work.

The “Series” competitors is new this yr, having been renamed from the earlier Professional class. The normal concept stays the identical, and entrants should submit a sequence of 5 to 10 associated images.

Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen, Managing Director of Copenhagen Photo Festival in Denmark, will choose the brand new Single Image competitors and the Youth competitors. Menno Liauw, Founder and Director of the FUTURES Foundation within the Netherlands, will choose the Student competitors.

The Single Image competitors, previously referred to as Open, requires photographers to submit a single picture for consideration throughout quite a few classes, together with a brand new “Animal Portrait” class. The 15 entered photographs featured all through this story are all a part of the Single Image competitors.

“Now in our 20th year, the Awards represent two decades of celebrating photographers worldwide, and we’re as committed as ever to continuing that legacy. As always, the competition remains completely free to enter and is open to all photographers shooting on any device and at all stages of their careers,” the World Photography Organization defined when it opened up the Sony World Photography Awards 2027 in June.

Big Prizes

Unlike in prior years, photographers can enter each Series and Single Image competitions, though they can’t enter the identical picture twice. The photographer who wins the grand prize for the Series competitors, thus named “Photographer of the Year,” will obtain a $25,000 money prize plus a solo presentation as a part of the subsequent yr’s Sony World Photography Awards exhibit. The total Single Image competitors winner will get $5,000.

The deadline to enter the Student and Youth competitions is November 27, 2026, and January 5, 2027, respectively. The deadline for the Single Image competitors is January 5, and photographers have till January 12 to submit their images for the Series competitors. Complete guidelines and laws can be found on the Sony World Photography Awards website.

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