Here are the best photos at the Sony World Photography Awards 2020

The World Photography Organization announced the results of one of the world's largest and most prestigious photography competitions. I invite you to a real feast for the eye.

This year's final of the Sony World Photography Awards took place completely differently than in previous years. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sony has abandoned the final gala, hundreds of guests from around the world and dozens of high-profile names of the photo world. And although the finale was not as solemn as usual, it does not detract from the photographs, which, as usual, maintain the highest level.

The Photographer of the Year title and the prize of 25,000 dollars. received Pablo Albarenga from Uruguay for the Seeds of Resistance series. We also got to know the names of ten winners and second and third place winners in individual categories of the professional competition, as well as the winners of the open, student and youth competitions.

Photographer of the Year / 1st place in the Creativity category - Pablo Albarenga (Uruguay) for the Seeds of Resistance series

Seeds of Resistance is a collection of works whose author collates landscape photos of areas threatened by the development of mining and industrial agriculture with portraits of activists fighting to save their lands.

- This year's winner submitted his cycle in the category "Creativity" and showed poignantly how deforestation goes hand in hand with the destruction of communities and people - comments Mike Trow, chairman of the jury of the professional competition. The assessment of this year's work was a challenge. There were plenty of extraordinary stories and image collections that could win the grand prize, but the Seeds of Resistance series was truly outstanding. Pablo comes from Uruguay and has a very personal relationship with this project. The effort put into planning, preparing and taking photos for this series deserves praise by all means.

Category Architecture - Sandra Herber (Canada)

The Ice Fishing Huts series won, Lake Winnipeg.

Discovery category - Maria Kokunova (Russian Federation)

The Cave (Cave) series won.

Documentary photography category - Chung Ming Ko (Hong Kong)

The series Wounds of Hong Kong (Wounds of Hong Kong) won.

Category Environment - Robin Hinsch (Germany)

Wahal cycle won.

Category Landscape - Ronny Behnert (Germany)

Torii won the cycle.

Category: Nature and wildlife - Brent Stirton (South Africa)

The Pangolins in Crisis cycle won.

Portrait category - Cesar Dezfuli (Spain)

The "Passengers" series won.

Category Sport - Angel Lopez Soto (Spain)

The Senegalese Wrestlers series won.

Still life category - Alessandro Gandolfi (Italy)

He won the cycle Immortality, Inc. (Immortality).

The Photographer of the Year title in the open competition - Tom Oldham (United Kingdom)

The title of Photographer of the Year in the 2020 open competition and a prize of $ 5,000 went to Tom Oldham, whose photo of Black Francis was chosen from among ten winning photos in individual categories of the open competition.

The black and white portrait of the leader of the Pixies band Charles Thompson (also known as Black Francis) was originally made for MOJO magazine.

Photographer of the Year Title in Student Competition - Ioanna Sakellaraki (Greece)

The Aeiforia series won, which was considered the best interpretation of the topic Sustainability Now . Sakellaraki presented night photos of solar panels, wind turbines and battery assemblies on the Greek island of Tilos, which is the first in the Mediterranean to draw energy almost exclusively from renewable sources.

Photographer of the Year in the Youth Competition - Hsien-Pang Hsieh (Taiwan, 19 years old)

Photographer he was selected from seven category winners and awarded for the photo of Hurray. The photograph depicts a street artist who feels a dynamic gait while remaining still.

There were also Polish accents in the competition.

Jacek Pator received the best Polish photo and Poland National Award in the Sony World Photography Awards 2020, as we informed in March .

Here is the best Polish photo in the Sony World Photography Awards

In the competition, we also saw awards for Poles. Marcin Płonka received a distinction in the Architecture category in the Professional Competition. There are also distinctions in the Open Competition: Marcin Giba received them in the Architecture category and in the Landscape category, and Miłosz Wilczyński in the Travel category. Congratulations to all winners and awarded!

Here are the best photos at the Sony World Photography Awards 2020

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