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Winner Youth,Open Call: Youth Photographer of the Year – 16 years outdated; firefighters transporting artwork items to security following a hearth on the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in central Stockholm
Philip Kangas, Sweden – Sony World Photography Awards
The undertaking Bilha, Stories of My Sisters, which blends photographic portraits with digital illustrations, has been chosen from the ten Professional competitors class winners as the general Photographer of the Year 2026 on the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards.
Now of their nineteenth version, the Sony World Photography Awards rejoice photographers shaping our visible tradition via a collection of annual competitions. This 12 months, the awards acquired greater than 430,000 picture submissions from photographers throughout greater than 200 international locations and territories.
For successful the Photographer of the Year title, Citlali Fabián acquired a $25,000 money prize, Sony digital imaging tools and the chance to current a solo exhibition on the Sony World Photography Awards 2027 showcase.
A visible artist from the Yalalteca Indigenous group in Mexico who’s presently based mostly in London, Fabián makes use of images to discover questions of id and their connections to territory, migration and group.
Her successful collection tells the tales of influential girls from Indigenous communities throughout Oaxaca, Mexico, whose work is creating significant affect in fields together with legislation, linguistics, the humanities and ecology.
The portraits are enhanced with digital illustrations that includes symbols and motifs that replicate every topic’s private journey whereas celebrating their cultural heritage.
The 2026 competing classes embody Architecture & Design, Creative, Documentary Projects, Environment, Landscape, Portraiture, Sports, Still Life and Wildlife and Nature.
The awarded roster additionally contains the general winners of the Open, Student and Youth competitions in addition to this 12 months’s Outstanding Contribution to Photography awarded to celebrated photographer Joel Meyerowitz.
The Sony World Photography Awards 2027 competitors opens for entries on June 1, 2026.
Overall Photographer Of The Year
Winner Photographer of the Year: the picture is a part of the Birha Series.
Citlali Fabian, Mexico/UK – Sony World Photography Awards
The title of Photographer of the Year 2026 was awarded to Citlali Fabián, who additionally received the primary place for the Creative class.
Her successful collection Bilha, Stories of my Sisters was created to encourage younger ladies with constructive position fashions. It presents a glimpse into the world of activists and artists from numerous Indigenous communities in southern Mexico. Shaped via a collaborative course of between the photographer and her topics, the collection makes use of a mixed-media method to images.
Winner Outstanding Contribution to Photography 2026
Joel Meyerowitz., U.S. – Sony World Photography Awards
Outstanding Contribution to Photography 2026: awarded to Joel Meyerowitz , a avenue photographer whose observe is marked by his observant eye, finely tuned to the currents and textures of life and likewise by a exceptional intuition for framing pictures revealing and enigmatic and imbued with magnificence and wit.
Winner, Open Photographer of the Year
Elle Leontiev, Australia – Sony World Photography Awards
Open Photographer of the Year: Phillip of Tanna, a self-taught volcano scientist lives on the base of Yasur volcano in his native village on Tanna. He collaborated with worldwide scientists to doc details about Vanuatu’s volcanos.
In this picture he poses in a gifted lava swimsuit on the ash plaine of Yasu. The volcano smoulders behind him, sending a plume of fuel and sulphur into the sky.
Winner, Student Photographer of the Year
Jubair Ahmed Arnob, Bangladesh – Sony World Photography Awards
Student Photographer of the Year winner: Jubair Ahmed Arnob, a Dhaka-born photographer learning at Counter Foto – a Center for Visual Arts in Bangladesh. In his collection The Place Where I Used to Play, Arnob returns to Green Model Town in Dhaka to {photograph} its vibrant group and tranquil panorama, now disappearing underneath concrete.
Arnob and his college obtain roughly €30,000 value of Sony Digital Imaging tools.
Documentary Projects Winner, Santiago Mesa (Colombia)
Sony World Photography Awards
Documentary Projects winner: Under the Shadow of Coca, 1st place Documentary Projects. Darwin, a younger coca leaf picker (raspachín), rests on a mound of freshly harvested coca leaves gathered by the opposite employees earlier than the leaves are chopped and processed within the rural group of Jordán Guisia, in Putumayo, Colombia.
Winner Portrature class
Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni, Italy – Sony World Photography Awards
The Faithful, 1st place Portraiture.
Winner, Environment class
Isadora Romero, Ecuador – Sony World Photography Awards
Notes on How to Build a Forest, 1st place Environment.
Winner, Still Life class.
Vilma Taubo, Norway, Sony World Photography Awards
Talking Without Speaking, 1st place Still Life.
Winner, Sport class
Todd Antony, New Zealand – Sony World Photography Awards
Buzkashi, 1st place Sport.
Winner Wildlife & Nature class
Will Burrard-Lucas, UK – Sony World Photography Awards
Crossing Point, 1st place Professional Wildlife and Nature,
Winner, Landscape class
Dafna Talmor, UK – Sony World Photography Awards
Constructed Landscapes, 1st place Landscape class.
Winner, Perspectives class
Seungho Kim, Republic of Korea – Sony World Photography Awards
Sunny Side Up: A Portrait of the Most Average Okay-Parenting at the moment.
1st Place Professional,Architecture & Design,class
Joy Saha, Bangladesh – Sony World Photography Awards
Homes of Haor, Architecture & Design winner.
See all of the winners and shortlisted galleries of the Sony World Photography Awards here.
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