Commercial; Advertising: Dustin Humphrey, for his images for a campaign for the surfing apparel company INSIGHT. This is an installation shot of the Jamaican surf team.
From The Independent
“Fighting off stiff competition from a worldwide shortlist of 186 photographers, the winners of the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards were revealed today.
Each of the photographers on the list, along with the runners-up in the professional categories, will be exhibited and honoured at the Sony World Photography Awards ceremony at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, on Thursday 16 April.
Of the 12 professional category winners, one photographer will be the recipient of the L’Iris D’Or, the Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year. On the night they will be awarded $25,000. The winning amateur photographer, selected from the eight category finalists, will receive a $5,000 cash prize.”
You can check out the full list of winners and their galleries at the official Sony World Photography Awards website here. Or, if you simply can’t wait, here’s a quick taster of some of the winning entries:
Photojournalism and Documentary; Sport: Julian Abram Wainwright, for his images from the Beijing Olympics last year.
Landscape: David Zimmerman, for his images of the American Southwest desert.
Architecture: Michael van den Bogaard, for his images of rundown or demolished dwellings in glitzy Shanghai.
Photojournalism and Documentary; Contemporary Issues: Giulio Di Sturco, for his images of flood devastation in India.
Gordon Welters: Loveparade 2008, Highway to Love.
