{"id":4626,"date":"2026-02-18T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:52:50","slug":"see-the-best-of-nearly-half-a-million-entries-to-the-sony-world-photography-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=4626","title":{"rendered":"See the Best of Nearly Half a Million Entries to the Sony World Photography Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For its 19th edition, the Sony World Photography Awards<\/a> welcomed over 430,000 submissions for its Open competition from photographers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe. Ten categories, ranging from portraiture to landscapes to travel, encompass the staggering breadth and beauty of nature and society captured throughout 2025.<\/p>\n

The contest has announced the category winners, including Robby Ogilvie<\/a>\u2019s vibrant composition of a vintage car in front of colorful buildings in the Bo-Kaap neighborhood in Cape Town, South Africa, and Klaus Hellmich\u2019s portrait of an arctic fox braving a blizzard.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Robby Ogilvie, United Kingdom. Winner, Open Competition, Object<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d says a statement. <\/p>\n

The top award of Open Photographer of the Year will be announced on April 16 in London, the day after which the contest\u2019s exhibition opens at Somerset House<\/a>, where it remains on view through May 4.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Lisa Skelton, Australia. Shortlist, Open Competition, Natural World & Wildlife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a9 ChenYu Hsieh, Taiwan. Shortlist, Open Competition, Travel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a9 Brian Arancibia, Chile. Shortlist, Open Competition, Lifestyle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a9 Liping Jiang, China Mainland. Shortlist, Open Competition, Travel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a9 Klaus Hellmich, Germany. Winner, Open Competition, Natural World & Wildlife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a9 Jaylon Cooper, United States. Shortlist, Open Competition, Portraiture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a9 Francisco Lima, Saraiva, Brazil. Shortlist, Open Competition, Landscape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a9 Anita Clark and Paul Wenham-Clarke, United Kingdom. Shortlist, Open Competition, Lifestyle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a9 Vanta Coda III, United States. Winner, Open Competition, Lifestyle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article See the Best of Nearly Half a Million Entries to the Sony World Photography Awards<\/a> appeared first on Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For its 19th edition, the Sony World Photography Awards welcomed over 430,000 submissions for its Open competition from photographers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe. Ten…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}