Take a look at the winning photos from the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards, the world's biggest photography competition, which for the ninth time has taken a look at the photography output of the past 12 months worldwide. Among the winners is the Slovenian Andrej Tarfila, who took home the title of the winner of the national competition and the world winner of the travel category in the open competition. In the competition of a record 230,103 submitted works, the jury recognized Asghar Khamseh and his series of shocking portraits "Fire of Hate" as the best photographer, thus also awarding him the honorary photographic title L'Iris d'Or at a ceremony in London.
They are known winning photos the world's largest photography competition Sony World Photography Awards 2016, which is running for the ninth round this year. World Photographic Organization WPO in other words, the honorary jury had its busiest hands this year so far.
The competition was registered records 230,103 works from 180 countries, but the Iranian photographer convinced the evaluators the most Asghar Khamseh with a series of portraits”Fire of hatred” (“Fire of Hatred”), which shows acid attack victims.
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They are next to an absolute winner in London also announced the winners national competition (here he celebrated, among other things Andrej Tarfilo) and other categories (artistic, documentary, student and youth competition, outstanding contribution to photography) and open competition (also here Andrej Tarfilo was celebrated in the travel category), which was intended for amateur photographers. Among the "amateurs", victory went to Japan. The Japanese celebrated Kei Nomiyama with photo"Enchanted bamboo forest”.
Did any of the photos inspire you? Applications at 10th World Photo Contest The Sony World Photography Awards open June 1, 2016.
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