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Sony World Photography Awards 2024
Prizes:
- Professional Photographer of the Year receives $25,000 (USD)
- Open Photographer of the Year receives $5,000 (USD)
Sections:
- Professional – 10 categories, judged on a body of work
- Open – 10 categories, rewarding the best single images. Entries submitted to the Open competition are automatically entered into the National Awards based on nationality
- Youth – for all photographers aged 12-19, a single image responding to one brief
- Student Focus – for those studying photography
Categories: Architecture, Creative, Motion, Documentary, Object, Landscape, Natural World & Wildlife, Portraiture, Street, and Travel.
A shortlist of up to fifteen photographers from each category and category winners will be selected and announced prior to April 2024; the overall winner will be announced in April 2024.
Image requirements: no smaller than 1MB and no larger than 5MB. Images should be JPEG files; RGB colour profile.
Online submission of digital photographs via the website. Each Entrant can submit up to three images for free.
PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS FOR YOU:
Zoom lenses are convenient and optically very good, but there is not yet a substitute for a top-quality prime lens. A zoom can mask laziness in photography. The prime forces you to not only think, but to move, as well. This will open up more opportunities than it will close. Along the same lines, if you are going for symmetry, make sure you nail it. A few inches in one direction can upset the image’s symmetry, and your audience (and you) will know you were going for symmetry and missed. Photography can be a game of inches. The image is more than the subject (usually). Scrutinize the corners and the sides and top and bottom of your frame. Is everything working together well, or is something completely out of place? Can you adjust to remove the “noise” of a busy scene? Look at the whole so the whole does not detract from your subject.
Zoom lenses are convenient and optically very good, but there is not yet a substitute for a top-quality prime lens. A zoom can mask laziness in photography. The prime forces you to not only think, but to move, as well. This will open up more opportunities than it will close. Along the same lines, if you are going for symmetry, make sure you nail it. A few inches in one direction can upset the image’s symmetry, and your audience (and you) will know you were going for symmetry and missed. Photography can be a game of inches. The image is more than the subject (usually). Scrutinize the corners and the sides and top and bottom of your frame. Is everything working together well, or is something completely out of place? Can you adjust to remove the “noise” of a busy scene? Look at the whole so the whole does not detract from your subject.
