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Photos: Winning images from the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards Open and Youth categories

By Marcus Wong - 2 Apr 2016

2016 Sony World Photography Awards Youth categories winners

The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards is one of the biggest photography competitions in the world, and this year it attracted a record-breaking 230,103 photographs from over 186 countries. Each winning image was chosen as the single best shot in its category and was judged by an expert panel chaired by Jael Marschner, former picture editor Time Out London / Sunday Times Travel. Here’s a gallery of the winning images from both the Open and Youth categories, selected from a total of 103,005 entries.
 

Youth Category: Environment

 Mount Kazbek in Frame, Georgia

Winner: Anais Stupka,Italy

Image description:

A view of Mount Kazbek in Georgia

My family and I went to Georgia, Kazbegi on the last week of October for the half term break. We were staying at a beautiful hotel and I was just going to catch the elevator when I noticed this beautiful view from the window. I really wanted to take a photograph because in that frame you can see the positives and negatives of Mount Kazbek. For example you can see the amazing church on top of the mountain, but you can also see the poor town.

Copyright: Anais Stupka, Italy, Winner, Youth Competition, Environment, 2016 Sony World Photography Awards

 

Youth Category: Portraits

 Sarah

Winner: Sam Delaware,United States

Image description:

Sarah, my sister, December 28th, 2015

After moving to a university across the country, I understood that I’d miss my family; my mother and father, and especially my sister. Like so many millions of other young adults around me, I left my family and my home this year for the first time, and in an instant, they were no longer a daily part of my life. I wanted to somehow speak to the mixed feelings I was experiencing; excitement, for the life I was about to begin, and nostalgia, for the one I was leaving behind. Traveling back to Maine for a short time allowed me to create this somewhat spontaneous image of my sister, giving me the opportunity to express this change in the best way I knew how.

Copyright: © Sam Delaware, United States, Winner, Youth Competition, Portraits, 2016 Sony World Photography Awards

 

Youth Category: Culture

Salt Cleansing

Winner: Sepehr Jamshidi Fard,Iran

Image description:

The Oroomiyeh lake has always been a place where people cleanse. They cleanse their skin from the penetrating rays of the sun, they cleanse their minds and render it like the landscape itself; white, blank, with an indistinguishable horizon.

Copyright:© Sepehr Jamshidi Fard, Iran, Winner, Youth Competition, Culture, 2016 Sony World Photography Awards

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