With just one month to
go for photographers to enter the 11th Sony World Photography
Awards, a selection of image entries have been released from the Open
competition to mark this deadline. They have been submitted by photographers
from around the world covering a wide variety of topics.

The Sony World
Photography Awards is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading
competitions, and prizes include $25,000 (USD) for Photographer of the Year and
$5,000 (USD) for the overall open competition winner. All category winners will
receive the Sony Digital equipment, and Professional category winners are flown
to London to attend the Sony World Photography Awards dinner on Thursday
April 19, 2018.

New Images Released to Mark
One Month until Deadline of 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

(ASIA PACIFIC, 6 December 2017) – Photographers worldwide
have just one month left to enter the 11th edition of the Sony World
Photography Awards. To mark this deadline, the World Photography Organisation,
the creators of the Awards, today releases a new selection of entries from the
Open competition. Submitted by photographers from around the world, the images
cover a wide variety of topics, from stunning aerial shots to intimate
portraits and animals in the wild.  

The Sony World Photography Awards
are widely recognised as one of the world’s leading photography competitions,
with many of its shortlisted and winning photographers gaining global exposure
and recognition. Past shortlisted photographer Simon Butterworth said, “It’s impossible to overstate the importance of this
achievement to my career, the global coverage was amazing, in fact, interest in
my work as a direct result of the awards continues to this day.”
All entries to the Awards are free at  www.worldphoto.org/swpa.

The 2018 judges have been tasked
to reward the very best contemporary photography from the past year across the
following competitions:

Open – best single image

Youth – photographers aged 12-19, best single image

National Award – best single image taken by a local
photographer from 60+ countries
Deadline:
January 4, 2018

Professional – best series of works 
Deadline: January 11, 2018

The juries are chaired by Mike
Trow, Picture Editor, British Vogue (Professional competition) and Zelda
Cheatle, Curator (Open, Youth competitions and National Awards).  Full details about the 2018 jury can be found
at www.worldphoto.org/sony–world–photographyawards/2018–judges  

The shortlist for all competitions of
the Awards will be announced on February
28, 2018.  The Open and
National Awards winners will be announced March 20,
2018.  The Photographer of the
Year and the Professional category winners will be announced April 19, 2018.

Prizes include $25,000 (USD) for the Photographer of the
Year and $5,000 (USD) for the overall Open competition winner. All category
winners will receive the latest Sony Digital Imaging equipment and Professional
category winners are flown to London to attend the Sony World Photography
Awards dinner on Thursday April 19, 2018. 

The Awards’ winning and
shortlisted images will once again be exhibited at Somerset House, London.
Running April 20 – May 6 2018, the exhibition will also include exclusive new
works by the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award, to
be announced in January 2018. Previous recipients include Martin Parr (2017),
RongRong&inri (2016), Elliot Erwitt (2015) and Mary Ellen Mark (2014).

Prizes and exhibition