New Zealand photographer shortlisted for 2010 Sony World Photography Awards

The shortlist for the 2010 Sony World Photography Awards is announced today, Tuesday 23 February. The list contains the names of 190 outstanding photographers from 48 different countries. From fashion to music, architecture to current affairs, the Sony World Photography Awards is one of the most comprehensive photographic competitions in the world.

The Honorary Judging Committee, comprising world-renowned photographers, curators, representatives from leading international photo agencies and picture editors came together in London to make their selection from over 80,000 professional and amateur photography submissions.

The Sony World Photography Awards is a truly global competition with submissions received from every corner of the globe. This year’s shortlist includes a number of Sony World Photography Awards winners and finalists from previous years including Robin Utrecht, winner in the Sports category in 2008; Wojciech Grzedzinski, winner in Current Affairs in 2009 and Edgar Martins, finalist in Conceptual and Constructed in 2009.

Astrid Merget, Creative Director of the World Photography Organisation says:

“As in past years, the sheer number of entries from across the globe overwhelms us and reminds us of how universal photography is as a creative expression. We are thrilled to see the quality of entries once again heighten and even more pleased to see many returning photographers on the shortlist.”

In the professional competition there are 12 categories within the three subject genres: Photojournalism and Documentary (Current Affairs, Sport, Contemporary Issues and Arts and Entertainment); Commercial (Advertising, Fashion and Music) and Fine Art (Portraiture, Conceptual and Constructed, Natural History, Landscape and Architecture).

There are nine amateur categories which are: Architecture, Conceptual and Constructed, Documentary, Fashion, Landscape, Music, Natural History, Portraiture and Sport. This year, the amateur entries were pre-selected by inspectors from iStockphoto, which were the official 2010 Pre-selection Committee, before being judged by the Honorary Judging Committee.

The finalists in each of the categories will be announced on Thursday 22 April at the Sony World Photography Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner at the Grand Lumier Theatre at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. Also on the night, the 2010 winner of the L’Iris D’Or, the Sony World Photographer of the Year, will be announced and will receive $25,000 and professional Sony camera equipment. The winning amateur photographer will receive a $5,000 cash prize as well as Sony camera equipment. The final presentation of the night will be in honour of the acclaimed photographer Eve Arnold, who is the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

The professional category finalists and amateur category winners will be showcased in the Winner’s Exhibition as part of the World Photography Festival, a five day celebration of the craft of photography. The festival takes place across the city of Cannes, at locations including the famous Croisette, with a host of exhibitions, workshops, portfolio reviews, student programmes and talks from World Photography Academy members including Jonathan Torgovnik, Idris Khan, Chloe Limpkin (Picture Director of British Harper’s Bazaar), Reza and Bill Hunt (Co-founder of Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York. A highlight of the programme will be the ‘Photography Now’ symposium, presented by some of the leading international industry figures. It will explore the current topics, trends, dilemmas and debates concerning photography today.

For the first time, members of the public will be able to attend the Sony World Photography Awards ceremony. Tickets, priced £25, are available via the World Photography Organisation website: www.worldphotographyawards.org/festival

Shortlist Nominations

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Photojournalism and Documentary

Honorary Judging Committee: Chair, Aidan Sullivan (UK), Vice President Getty Images; Pablo Bartholomew (India), photographer and educator; Roberto Koch (Italy), Publisher, Contrasto and Founder of FORMA (the international Centre of Photography in Milan) and Monica Allende (UK), Picture Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine.

Professional shortlisted photographers

Current affairs

Walter Astrada (Argentina)
Marcus Bleasdale (Norway)
Marco Bulgarelli (Italy)
Adam Dean (UK)
Fayaz Kabli (India)
Alfonso Moral (Spain)
Espen Rasmussen (Norway)
Brent Stirton (South Africa)
Robin Utrecht (Netherlands)
Veronique de Viguerie (France)
Munem Wasif (Bangladesh) © Marcus Bleasdale courtesy of V11 Agency

Sport

Jack Atley (Australia)
Scott Barbour (New Zealand)
Thomas Beyerlein (Germany)
Craig Golding (Australia)
Matthias Hangst (Germany)
Daisuke Ito (Japan)
Palani Mohan (Malaysia)
Beniamino Pisati (Italy)
Denis Rouvre (France)
Vladimir Vyatkin (Russian Federation) © Craig Golding courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010
Pavel Wolberg (Israel)

Contemporary issues

Tommaso Ausili (Italy)
Bieke Depoorter (Belgium)
Carlo Gianferro (Italy)
Kuba Kaminski (Poland)
Davide Monteleone (Italy)
George Osodi (Nigeria)
Xingkai Ouyang (China)
Lukasz Sokol (Poland)
Andy Spyra (Germany)
Marco Vernaschi (Italy) © George Osodi courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Arts and entertainment

Nicky Loh (Singapore)
Palani Mohan (Malaysia)
Calil Elias Neto (Brazil)
Paolo Pellegrin (Italy)
Pavel Wolberg (Israel)

Amateur shortlisted photographers

Documentary

Miguel Candela (Spain)
Spyros Catramis (Greece)
Pietro Antonio Collini (Italy)
Juan Carlos Ruiz Duarte (Spain)
Fredrik Jalhed (Sweden)
Karlmarx Rajangam (United Kingdom)
Matt Scandrett (United Kingdom)
Matthias Selderhuis (Netherlands)
A. Danish Siddiqui (India)
Timothy Sim (Singapore) © Matt Scandrett courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Sport

Tien Ho Anh (Vietnam)
Claudio Casanova (Switzerland)
Leonardo Giannetti (Brazil)
Maksym Gorbatskyi (Ukraine)
François Grados (France)
Mustafa Ipek (Turkey)
Aniko Molnar (Hungary)
Yannick Pickhard (Germany)
Philip Platzer (Austria)
Simone Santi (Italy) © Mustafa Ipek courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

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Commercial

Honorary Judging Committee: Chair, Mark Sealy (UK), Director of Autograph (The Association of Black Photographers); Nadav Kander (UK), photographer; Scott Thode (US), freelance curator and photo editor and Chloe Limpkin (UK), Picture Director of Harper’s Bazaar.

Professional shortlisted photographers

Advertising

Martin Brent (United Kingdom)
Radek Burda (Czech Republic)
Peter Dench (United Kingdom)
Peter Franck (Germany)
Stuart Freeman (United Kingdom)
Kai-Uwe Gundlach (Germany)
Rip Hopkins (United Kingdom)
Tim Macpherson (United Kingdom)
Claire Rosen (United States)
Dmitry Rusak (Belarus)
Sonja de Sterke (Netherlands)

Fashion

Jose Luis Cuevas (Mexico)
David Handley (United Kingdom)
Orlando dos Santos (Portugal)
Tom Seelbach (Germany)

Music

Marcus Bleasdale (Norway)
Josh Cole (United Kingdom)
Rachel Corner (Netherlands)
Mohammad Golchin (Iran)
Wojciech Grzedzinski (Poland)
Stephen Uhraney (Canada)
Vladimir Vyatkin (Russian Federation)

Amateur shortlisted photographers

Fashion

Anastasia Baranova (Russian Federation)
Sven Dreesbach (Germany)
Elisabeth Harvey (Australia)
Tomek Jankowski (Poland)
Wing Kit Lo (Hong Kong)
Jelena Kostic (Serbia / Montenegro)
Kofi Paintsil (United Kingdom)
Ed Purnomo (Indonesia)
Dominik Smialowski (Poland) © Jelena Kostic courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010
Alex Chebotar (Russian Federation)

Music

Sabrina Caramanico (Italy)
Bijoy Chowdhury (India)
Gerado Sabado (Philippines)
Vitali Seitz (Germany)
Elena Shevcova (Russian Federation)
Raoul Slater (Australia)
Wendy Smith (United Kingdom)
Karolina Zapolska (Poland)
Hongky Zein (Indonesia)

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Fine Art

Honorary Judging Committee: Chair, Bill Hunt (US), Co-founder of Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York; Trisha Ziff (Mexico), curator, scholar, film-maker; Michelle Dunn (USA), Co-Publisher of Aperture Magazine and Editor-at-Large at Chronicle Books and Bohnchang Koo (Korea), photographer.

Professional shortlisted photographers

Portraiture

Tommaso Bonaventura (Italy)
Ilenio Celoria (Italy)
Maohua Fei (China)
Rip Hopkins (United Kingdom)
Malcolm Hutcheson (United Kingdom)
Ozant Kamaci (Turkey)
Nelli Palomaki (Finland)
Magdalena Placzkowska (Poland)
Jacek Swierczynski (Poland)
Piero Visconti (Italy)
Krystle Wright (Australia)

Conceptual and Constructed

Vladislav Danilov (Russian Federation)
Maohua Fei (China)
Stuart Hall (United Kingdom)
Janina Simone Kulcsar (Germany)
Edgar Martins (United Kingdom)
Martin Mascheski (Germany)
Spencer Murphy (United Kingdom)
Sebastian Platero (Spain)
Natalie Tkachuk (United Kingdom)
Renhui Zhao (Singapore)

Natural History

Trevor Aston (United Kingdom)
Adam Balcerek (Poland)
Arie Kievit (Netherlands)
Kacper Kowalski (Poland)
Steve Morenos (Australia)
Pere Pascual (Spain)
Paolo Patrizi (Japan)
Massimo Siragusa (Italy)
Nguyen van Thuong (Vietnam)
Nicolas Wormull (Chile)
Renhui Zhao (Singapore)

Landscape

Herman van den Boom (Belgium)
Uwe Ditz (Germany)
Peter Franck (Germany)
Ozant Kamaci (Turkey)
Emil Khalilov (Azerbaijan)
Kacper Kowalski (Poland)
Pawel Mlodkowski (Poland)
Rocco Rorandelli (Italy)
Frank Schirrmeister (Germany)
Andy Stewart (United Kingdom)
Renhui Zhao (Singapore)

Architecture

Duda Carvalho (Brazil)
Luca Casonato (Italy)
Alfredo Covino (Italy)
Linda Ferrari (Italy)
Walter Fogel (Germany)
Luc Gees (Belgium)
Adolf Glubschauge (Belgium)
Philipp Lohoefener (Germany)
Edgar Martins (United Kingdom)
Andreas Secci (Germany)
Mario Vivado Portales (Chile) © Walter Fogel courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Amateur shortlisted photographers

Portraiture

Richard Brocken (Netherlands)
Nour Eddine El Ghoumari (Morocco)
Pedro Letra (Portugal)
Jupp Michels (Germany)
Italo Morales (Venezuela)
Valérie Morignat (France)
Sandipan Mukherjee (India)
Somenath Mukhopadhyay (India)
Vadim Nardin (Belarus)
Ren Rox (United Kingdom)

Conceptual and Constructed

Anja Bührer (Germany)
Ana B Escobar (Spain)
Michael Lämmler (Germany)
Jake Lowe (Australia)
Gregoire A. Meyer (France)
Sergey Politkovskiy (Russian Federation)
Martin Stranka (Czech Republic)
Daniel Tückmantel (Germany)

Natural History

Sandipan Dutta (India)
Diego Cortes Escribano (Spain)
Alex Goh (Malaysia)
Csaba Loki (Hungary)
Zoltan Gergely Nagy (Romania)
Deby Suchaeri (Indonesia)
Martin Thomsen (Denmark)
Zsuzsanna Toth (Hungary)
Karolos Trivizas (Greece)
E Zhang (China)

Landscape

Andrew Bayliff (United Kingdom)
Dina Bova (Israel)
Kirill Grekov (Ukraine)
Hayri Kodal (Turkey)
Gergely Kömöz (Hungary)
Nina Papiorek (Germany)
Peter Paterson (United Kingdom)
Nenad Saljic (Croatia)
Jan Styblik

Architecture

Bernhard Hartmann (Germany)
Oleg Lugovskoy (United States)
Marianna Marcantonini (Italy)
Afroditi Mavroeidi (Greece)
Simon Mulvaney (United Kingdom)
Adi Popa (Romania)
Paloma Cano Rovirosa (Spain)
Wayne Shipley (United Kingdom)
Kurt Skeels (United Kingdom)
Martin Tonhauser (Germany)

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Key Dates

Key dates for the Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Cannes, France

22 – 27 April Sony World Photography Awards and Festival

22 April Announcement of the L’Iris D’Or, category winners and Student Focus competition at the Sony World Photography Awards ceremony

22– 24 April The Photographers’ Programme

www.worldphotographyawards.org

Notes to editors

Astrid Merget, Creative Director of the World Photography Organisation and members of the jury are available for interview through Colman Getty

To request an interview with shortlisted photographers, contact Colman Getty

The shortlist images were selected from 37,617 professional and 43,745 amateur photography submissions

Images are available to download via the press area of www.worldphotographyawards.org. Use of images must comply with SWPA terms and conditions. Password details are available from Colman Getty

In selecting the shortlist, jury members are required to choose a minimum of 3 photographers with a maximum of 11 in each category

Where photographers are named twice in one category, they have been shortlisted for two different images

Professional photographers may enter a maximum of 10 images per category; amateur photographers may enter up to 3 per category

Images submitted must have been taken in 2009

The official pre-selection committee of the amateur competition is iStockphoto, the internet’s original member-generated image and design community. iStockphoto is the world’s busiest online image market which has helped thousands of amateur photographers increase their skills and go on to sell their work professionally.

Created by the World Photography Organisation, the World Photography Awards (WPA), sponsored by Sony, launched in 2007. The World Photography Organisation (WPO) supports professional, amateur and student photography, lending a global platform for the photographic industry to communicate, converge and showcase current trends in Photojournalism, Fine Art and Commercial photography. Delivering various initiatives and programmes across this global community under the “World Photography” brand, these programmes involve the photographer in commercial, cultural and educational activities within the many industry sectors, whilst also creating cultural activities for the public to participate in. Also currently included within the World Photography portfolio are the World Photography Student Focus Competition; the World Photography Awards Global Tour, the World Photography Festival, the World Photography Focus Programme and the recently launched World Photography Collection.

The WPA website - www.worldphotographyawards.org features an online gallery and news section. It also includes comprehensive information about the awards, the categories, a current list of World Photographic Academy members, and key dates.

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