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- Judges for the twentieth version of the Sony World Photography Awards introduced
- 2027 exhibition opens at Somerset House, London from 15 April – 3 May 2027
- 2026 travelling exhibition is open in Milan till 4 October, in Johannesburg till 22 January 2027, and opens in Berlin on 8 October
The Sony World Photography Awards announce at the moment the jury and London exhibition dates for the landmark twentieth version.
In their two-decade-long historical past, the Sony World Photography Awards have develop into the definitive reference level for modern visible storytelling, honouring the outstanding creativity and dedication of photographers working at the moment. A celebration of the tales and pictures shaping our tradition, the Awards present the varied prospects of the medium.
Organised by Creo, the Awards kind the core a part of its images programming strand, the World Photography Organisation. Sony helps the Awards to present a world platform to artists working in images, and to push ahead the worldwide discourse on the medium at the moment.
2027 JUDGES
Following the success of the 2026 version, which obtained over 430,000 pictures, and now coming into their second decade, the Awards are open for entries and free to all photographers. For the landmark twentieth version, the Awards welcomes again Monica Allende as Chair of the Jury for the Series competitors and curator of the London exhibition at Somerset House.
Allende is accompanied by a panel of specialists within the visible arts from throughout the globe, all contributing their distinctive experience, insights and views. The 2027 jury includes:
Series Competition:
- Monica Allende, Independent Curator and Photography Consultant, Chair of the Jury, UK
- Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo, Photographer & Editor at Raya Editorial, Colombia
- Peipei Han, Director of Exhibitions, Fotografiska Shanghai, China
- Candice Jansen, Manager, New Archival Visions Programme, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
- Amanda Renshaw, Independent Curator, Writer and Publishing Consultant, UK
- Pauline Vermare, Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum, USA
Single Image & Youth competitions: Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen, Managing Director, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Denmark
Student competitors: Menno Liauw, Founder and Director of the FUTURES Foundation, Netherlands
NEW IN 2027
The 2027 version broadens the Awards’ vary by means of new classes throughout the competitions, presenting expanded alternatives for recent views on visible storytelling. The Series (beforehand Professional) and Single Image (beforehand Open) competitions are re-named, additional defining and clarifying their scope. Photographers are welcome to enter completely different initiatives to each competitions, enabling these with various portfolios to enter work from throughout their apply, be it a sequence or a putting single {photograph}.
New Series competitors Category
Histories: This class invitations photographers to discover how histories – private, cultural, and collective – form our world at the moment, from traditions and on a regular basis rituals to the occasions and forces which have left their mark on nations and peoples. This class is for initiatives that have interaction, discover, or re-examine the previous, in addition to work that appears on the modern by means of a historic lens. We welcome archival and located picture interventions that revisit, re-contextualise, or breathe new life into the previous.
New Single Image competitors Category
Animal Portraits: This class celebrates the wonder, persona, and spirit of animals by means of portraiture. Judges are on the lookout for pictures that seize the topic’s expression and character, from beloved pets to majestic wildlife and marine life, to reptiles and bugs; portraits that honour and showcase the outstanding variety of the animal kingdom.
2027 LONDON EXHIBITION AND 2026 TRAVELLING EXHIBITION DATES
The Sony World Photography Awards 2027 exhibition begins its worldwide journey at Somerset House, London, from 15 April to three May 2027. A fixture of the cultural calendar in London, the acclaimed exhibition, curated by Monica Allende, contains a number of successful and shortlisted pictures from the 2027 Awards, in addition to particular displays by the Photographer of the Year 2026 Citlali Fabián and the Outstanding Contribution to Photography 2027, to be introduced in November.
The Sony World Photography Awards 2026 is at the moment on view in Johannesburg, South Africa (till 22 January 2027), on the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography, marking the Awards’ debut presentation in South Africa. The exhibition then continues to journey to different locations:
- Milan, Italy, 10 June – 4 October 2026
- Berlin, Germany, 8 October 2026 – 7 February 2027
- Matera, Italy, 14 November – 10 December 2026
- Bisceglie, Italy, 12 – 30 December 2026
To discover out extra about our exhibitions, please go to worldphoto.org
2027 DEADLINES AND PRIZES
The Sony World Photography Awards opened to submissions on 1 June 2026. Full competitors and class descriptions will be discovered at worldphoto.org
Deadlines for submission to the 4 competitions are as follows:
Series: 12 January 2027 16:00 GMT
Single Image: 5 January 2027 16:00 GMT
Student: 27 November 2026 16:00 GMT
Youth: 5 January 2027 16:00 GMT
All class winners of the Series, Single Image, Youth and Student competitions obtain Digital Imaging gear from Sony. The prestigious Photographer of the Year receives a money prize of $25,000 (USD) in addition to a solo presentation of their work as a part of the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition in London the next yr. The Single Image Competition Winner and the winner of the Sustainability Prize every obtain $5,000 (USD). All successful and shortlisted photographers’ initiatives are exhibited on the annual Sony World Photography Awards exhibition in London, and can then tour internationally. The successful pictures are additionally printed within the annual Awards’ guide, offered on the exhibition and obtainable on-line. Series competitors class winners and finalists are invited to Insights, a day of tailor-made classes with main trade figures in London. Coming from business, curatorial, and institutional backgrounds, these consultants supply the photographers specialised steering on increasing their community and apply.
For extra details about the Sony World Photography Awards and upcoming bulletins and occasions, please go to worldphoto.org
NOTES TO EDITORS
SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
Produced by Creo underneath its images strand the World Photography Organisation, the internationally acclaimed Sony World Photography Awards are one of the crucial essential fixtures within the world photographic calendar. Now of their twentieth yr, the Sony World Photography Awards have develop into a definitive platform for celebrating modern photographers, setting the usual for visible storytelling. Elevating the work of photographers to world audiences, the Awards supply career-defining alternatives and publicity, alongside prizes together with Sony Digital Imaging gear, money prizes, and the prospect to exhibit on the prestigious annual exhibition at Somerset House in London, which works on to tour throughout venues internationally. Each yr the Awards moreover recognise the world’s most influential artists working within the medium by means of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award; previous winners embrace Martin Parr (2017), Graciela Iturbide (2021), Sebastião Salgado (2024), and Joel Meyerowitz (2026). worldphoto.org
WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY ORGANISATION
World Photography Organisation is a number one world platform devoted to the event and development of photographic tradition. Its programming and competitors initiatives present beneficial alternatives for artists working in images and assist broaden the dialog round their work. The Sony World Photography Awards is World Photography Organisation’s principal programme. Established in 2007, it is without doubt one of the world’s greatest and most prestigious images competitions; celebrating the work of main and rising practitioners and attracting tens of 1000’s of tourists yearly to its exhibitions worldwide. World Photography Organisation is the images strand of Creo, which initiates occasions and programming throughout three sectors: images, movie and modern artwork. worldphoto.org
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Creo initiates and organises occasions and programming throughout three key strands: images, movie and modern artwork. Established in 2007 as World Photography Organisation, Creo has since grown in scope, furthering its mission of growing significant alternatives for creatives and increasing the attain of its cultural actions. Today, its flagship initiatives embrace the Sony World Photography Awards, Sony Future Filmmaker Awards, PHOTOFAIRS and Photo London. Working in partnership with Angus Montgomery Arts, Creo helps ship the group’s ventures, comprising a number of the world’s main artwork festivals. Taking its title from the Latin for ‘I create’, it’s on this spirit that Creo units out to empower and provides company to artistic voices. creoarts.com
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JUDGES
Monica Allende is a curator, artistic director, marketing consultant and educator with a distinguished worldwide profession in modern images and visible storytelling. She is Creative Director of The Blue Skies Project with Anton Kusters and is engaged on a brand new venture with Laia Abril exploring ladies political prisoners. She is the curator of the annual Sony World Photography Awards exhibition, offered every year at Somerset House in London, and she or he not too long ago curated the 2026 Awards exhibition on the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Previously, Allende was Photo Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine, the place she created Spectrum, its award-winning images part. She has beforehand held the place of Artistic Director of Getxophoto International Image Festival, Landskrona Foto and FORMAT International Photography Festival. She recurrently serves as a juror, nominator and mentor for main images awards and programmes, and teaches internationally. She is a trustee of The Photographers’ Gallery and serves on the advisory board of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.
Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen has been Managing Director of Copenhagen Photo Festival since 2016. As a director she goals for the unconventional assembly between images and other people, between the newcomers and established voices, inside a broad definition of images. She has a powerful deal with worldwide and long-term collaborations throughout Europe, and has labored with many Danish and worldwide artwork and images establishments, festivals and photographers as a jury member, portfolio reviewer, curator and venture supervisor. She has led quite a few photography-based initiatives with companions throughout the cultural industries, and has over 20 years of expertise within the discipline.
Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo is a photographer and editor at Raya Editorial, in addition to an architect holding an MA in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths. He is the founding father of 20Fotógrafos, Mesas de Edición, and AÑZ: Fotografía Expandida de Latinoamérica. He has labored because the Visual Curator for the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition of Colombia. In 2022, he was an NFT Resident at Voice & PhotoVogue and a TEDx Speaker. His work has obtained worldwide recognition, together with the First Publication Prize at FUTURA Felifa in 2018 and the POY Latam ‘Nuestra Mirada’ Award, and has been chosen at quite a few festivals and exhibitions, together with FOTO Bali Festival 2026; JIPFest 2026; Photometria 2025; Belfast Photo Festival 2025; Rotterdam Photo 2025; CAIROTRONICA 2025; Angkor Photo Festival 2025; BIFA 2024; and “Fotogalerías” on the Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo (CDF) amongst others. He is the writer of photobooks El pez muere por la boca (The Fish Dies by Its Mouth); Colombia, Tierra de Luz (Land of Light), Lucía, Patria o Muerte and Elefante Blanco (White Elephant).
Peipei Han has beforehand labored as unbiased curator, curating quite a few artwork and design exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai, in addition to writing a variety of up to date artwork articles for worldwide publications. She graduated from the University of the Arts London with an MA in Media, Communications, and Critical Practice. From 2015, Han managed 5 editions of the main Asia-Pacific platform for images and shifting pictures — PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai. With years of experience in modern visible artwork, she grew to become the Director of Exhibitions at Fotografiska Shanghai in 2023 the place she oversees all programming of reveals within the Shanghai venue of the Institution, and the quickly to be open Shenzhen museum in September 2026.
Candice Jansen, PhD practices in images as a author, curator, scholar, educator and photographer. Her scholarship on images has contributed to the archives, documentation, historical past, and instructing of understudied histories of the medium in Africa. Jansen’s curation and analysis has supported the event of public picture collections at key establishments for African images in South Africa. Her work contains the anthology on photographic legacies, Black Photo Libraries (2021) and the photobook, The House of Story (2023). Currently Jansen is the Programme Manager of New Archival Visions, an initiative incubated by the Centre for Humanities Research to advertise analysis archives on the University of the Western Cape.
Menno Liauw is founder and director of the FUTURES Foundation, one among Europe’s main platforms for modern images and visible tradition. For over 20 years, he has labored as a strategic marketing consultant, cultural entrepreneur, and initiator of worldwide collaborations. His work focuses on creating sustainable constructions that allow artists to develop their apply, increase their networks, and enhance their influence on society.
An artwork historian by coaching, Amanda Renshaw has collaborated with lots of the world’s main artists, artwork historians, mental and artistic figures and has labored intently with a variety of photographers together with Albarran & Cabrera, Roger Ballen, David Doubilet, Danny Lyon, Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry, Joel Meyerowitz, James Nachtwey, Martin Parr, Eugene Richards and Stephen Shore. Prior to over 20 years because the Editorial Director of Phaidon Press, Renshaw was a specialist within the Impressionist and Modern Department at Christie’s in each London and Paris. She began her profession within the Education Department on the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. She is the writer of a number of books, together with the internationally acclaimed Art Book for Children.
Pauline Vermare is the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography on the Brooklyn Museum. Previously, she served because the cultural director of Magnum Photos in New York, and as a curator on the International Center of Photography (ICP) and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She previously labored on the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris. Vermare is a images historian and a co-curator of “I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now”, a travelling exhibition organized by Aperture, that premiered on the Rencontres d’Arles in 2024 and was not too long ago offered on the Photographers’ Gallery, London, Bunkamura Hikarie Hall, Tokyo, and ICP, New York.
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