Natalia Wiernik - Student Focus Winner, Sony World Photography Awards

I am so impressed by the work of Natalia Wiernik, winner of the Student Focus Photographer of the Year  in the Sony World Photography Awards (see below) that I have given her an entry here all to herself!
Wiernik is a student at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland; the finalists in the competition were asked to shoot a series of photographs on the theme of 'family'. The work, along with that of other finalists can be seen at Somerset House until 12 May.
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Sony World Photography Awards - Somerset House

Ernest Goh, Headshot #55 - 2nd place: Nature & Wildlife

The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced - the winners and shortlisted work will be on show at Somerset House until 12 May.
Below is a selection of the winning images - find full details of all winners and all the images on the World Photography Organisation website. Click on images to enlarge.

Andrea Gjestvang – winner, L'Iris d'Or (Photographer of the Year)

Valerio Bispuri, Prisons of South America - Winner: Contemporary Issues

Ilya Pitalev, North Korean soldiers and civilians on the stand of the Kim Il-sung stadium - Winner: Current Affairs

Myriam Meloni, from The Limousine series - Winner: Arts & Culture

Elmar Akhmetov - Winner: Low Light (Open Competition)

Natalia Wiernik, Thanksgiving - Student Focus Award

Vanessa Colareta, Still life with oranges, lemons and bread - Winner: Still Life

Klaus Thymann, i-D Iceland - Winner: Fashion & Beauty

Christian Åslund, from advertising campaign for Jim Rickey shoes - Winner: Campaign

Jens Juul, Six Degrees of Copenhagen - Winner: Portraiture

Roman Pyatkovka, Soviet Photo - Winner: Conceptual

Sony World Photography Award - Somerset House

Bernard Pieterse, Sossusvlei (winner, Youth Category: Environment)

The 2012 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced: the winners and runners up will be on dispaly as part of World Photo London at Somerset House until 20 May 2012.

Below is a selection from the winners -  see details of all Professional category winners here and Open Competiotion winners here. Click on images to enlarge.
The Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award went to William Klein - see separate blog entry, here.

Ana Gregoric, In Between, (winner Open Competition: People)

Giovanni Frescura, Upupa (winner Open Competition: Nature & Wildlife)

Karina Sembe, Cécile (winner Youth Category: Portraits)

Mitch Dobrowner, Cell-Lightning, Dundee, Texas winner of the L’Iris d’Or - the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year

Natalia Belentsova, Symphony of Fire (winner Open Competition: Low Light)

Piotr Stasiuk, Marriage (winner Open Competiton: Smile)

Sanket Khuntale, indifest (winner Open Competition: Art & Culture)

Simon Norfolk, Afghanistan: 10 Years on after the War (winner Professional Category: People)

Photography Awards - Sony, Deutsche-Börse

Bruce Davidson,  Kathy and Arty at the Ocean Time Bar, Coney Island, 1959

Bruce Davidson has received the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards. A retrospective exhibition is showing at Somerset House until 22nd May and selected work will be on show at Chris Beetles from 4th to 28th May. Read feature by Sean O'Hagan and an interview from 2006 at American Suburb X.

The Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year Award (L’Iris D’Or) went to Alejandro Chaskielberg for his portfolio of pictures taken while living with islanders in the Paraná river delta, Argentina.

Alejandro Chaskielberg, The Hunter

For full details of all category award winners see The Sony World Photography Awards website. Below is a selection of images from some of the portfolios:

 

Javier Arcenillas, from Citizens of Despair - winner: Photojournalism & Documentary: Current Affairs

Tomg Meng, Wella Professionals for Marie Claire  - 3rd place: Commercial: Campaign 

Liz Loh-Taylor, Coexistence #1- winner: Commercial: Travel

Frank Bayh & Steff Rosenberger-Ochs, Don't Touch My Universe #6 - 2nd place: Commercial: Lifestyle

Alnis Stakle, from Lost: Paris - winner: Fine Art: Architecture

Florence Iff, Post Arcadia 5 - winner: Fine Art: Landscape

 

Charles Emerson, A Rose from Auschwitz - 3rd place: Fine Art: Still Life

The Deutsche-Börse prize for photography, 2011, has been awarded to Jim Goldberg for his project Open See,  documenting the experiences of refugees, immigrants and displaced people. (See also entries below)

Jim Goldberg, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2008: "His radio is the sole possession he took with him while escaping a rebel attack in his village. He now lives in a refugee camp with 60,000 other people where poverty, disease and crime run rampant."