Each year the Sony World Photography Awards showcases the most talented and exciting photographic projects from all around the world. For 2016, a total of 230,103 entries from 186 countries were narrowed down to just 14 winners of the world’s largest photography competition.
This year the awards feature every from the Iranian photographer Asghar Khamseh’s powerful portraits of an acid attack victim – which won the coveted L’Iris d’Or Photographer of the Year prize – to Angelos Tzortzinis’ iconic image of an Afghan refugee carrying his child as he arrives on a beach on the Greek island of Kos, in May 2015, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece.
Scott Gray, CEO of World Photography Organisation says: “The awards consistently provide an incredible array of work, from a multitude of countries, and most importantly provide the chance for photographers to be discovered and extend their careers.
I hope that the winning work this year can provide an inspiration to other photographers, helping to push their creative boundaries, whilst also serving to build the wider appreciation of photography.”
An exhibition of all the winning and shortlisted work will run at Somerset House, London from 22 April to 8 May.
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