Revealed: Stunning snaps named as Sony World Photography Awards finalists
The reigning world’s most stunning snaps have been revealed as the finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards.
The competition, which has run for nearly two decades, celebrates the most captivating photographs over the last year.
The 30 finalists have been announced alongside more than 65 shortlisted photographers.
The categories span: Portraiture, Street Photography, Travel, Natural World & Wildlife, Object, Motion, Lifestyle, Landscape, Creative and Architecture.
This year saw more than 430,000 submissions from over 200 countries and territories, showcasing the competition’s international reach.
The 10 category winners will be revealed on April 16 at Somerset House, London, while a selection of photographs will be open to the public from April 17 to May 5.
Below are a picking of the finalists and a selection of shortlisted submissions.
Irishman Shane Hynan’s series Beneath | Beofhód, translated as ‘life beneath the sod’ in Irish, heralds the significance of bogs in Celtic culture
Will Burrard-Lucas, who is from the UK, captured wildlife in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National, through his series Crossing Point
Passers-by are pictured by Anita Pouchard Serra in her native country Argentina as they watch capybaras eat grass by the side of the road
In the same series, Burrard-Lucas captures a black rhinoceros crossing the forested river path in Kenya’s Maasai Mara Reserve
Rob Van Thienen, from Belgium, attended sighthound training sessions, capturing dogs in action as they chase an artificial rabbit around a track
In the same series, Van Thienen seizes the moment with his lens when a greyhound sprints towards the artificial rabbit
Meixico-born Brian Mena Laureano was shortlisted for the piece Companions in the Fog, where a man stands on a forest path with his dog, surrounded by dense fog and tall trees
Documentary photographer Marius Smiejek, from Poland, captured a child leaning on two yellow balls in Accra, Ghana, earning him a shortlisted title
American Sunita Mandal’s shortlisted photograph captured two polar cubs with their mother on Baffin Island, Canada
Photographer David Baxter III’s shortlisted photograph saw a massive cloud shaped like an upside-down funnel loom over farmland
Hugo Hebbe, from France, was shortlisted in the Wildlife & Nature for his photograph of a baby gorilla in the Congo Basin, which is part of his series Guardians of the Jungle
South African Samdile Ndlovu from Durban snapped members of the Mthwalume Brass Band for his shortlisted photograph
Seamus Murphy, from Ireland, looked to recreate a ‘modern call for humanism’ through his series Strange Love, which was shortlisted in the Awards
Award-winning photographer Marcus Westberg, from Sweden, was shortlisted for his photo of elephants wading through marshland
Mandal’s other shortlisted piece saw the mother polar bear climb up the ice to her cubs
Baxter III from the United States was shortlisted for another photo, which caught the tunnelling of clouds and nearby lightening
Former swimmer Delfina Pignatiello, from Argentina, caught a group of women in a swimming pool using a waterproof camera
Photographer and light painting artist Liam Man, from the UK, specialises in drone-light painting
Named When Mountains Move, Man captures a man climbing up the Leones Glacier in Chile using drone-mounted aerial lights
