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Winners: Sony World Photography Awards 2017
Sony World Photography Awards

Winners: Sony World Photography Awards 2017

Photos
32
Status
Public
Created
Apr 20, 2017
Updated
Feb 09, 2022
Categories
Documentary Fine Art

Photos (32)

"Like in works of Modernism the shadow in the exhibited portraits is symbolic itself. Occupying nearly the whole picture it holds some mystery, and occasional points of light give us a chance to guess it. It may be said that along with the woman’s body there is another inanimate character in the photograph. It is the shadow. The human figure is likened to the light fighting with the dark.
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"Overlap - Freeway"
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"November 25th,2016, Changchun city, Jilin province, China. Fire treatment is another weight loss treatment. Ingredients are applied to the body’s meridian system, with the fire process unblocking meridian points that hinder the speed of the body’s metabolic processes, all with the aim of transforming fat into energy that can be eliminated from the body.
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"In Switzerland, three out of four people would rather die at home". From the Series "Art.115". Because of the advances in medicine and the shift of attitude towards one’s own mortality, the past few decades have seen the emergence of a demand for assistance in hastening the end of life.
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"Meghla, 23, with a customer in the Kandapara brothel in Tangail. She started working for a garment factory when she was 12 years old. There she met a man who promised her a better job with more money and he sold her into a brothel". From the Series "The Longing of Others". The Kandapara brothel in the district of Tangail is the oldest and one of the largest in Bangladesh - it has existed for some
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"A donkey is getting up after rolling in the snow in the mountains in Albania". From the Series "Whiteout"
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"Zhang Zhiyii, Gansu province. She wrote down: Dad lost money gambling, He also severely hit mother". From the Series "Left-behind Children"
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"On the Top of the World"
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“I didn’t mean to snoop around in your stuff, I just wanted to order your room, and it came in my hand this diary, and since the first page talks about me, I decided to sit on your desk and give you few answers.” —Valeria. From the Series "My (M)other"
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"Iraqi men from the Hawija region of Iraq wait to be questioned by Kurdish security personnel at a base near Kirkuk. Having fled areas still under the control of ISIS militants, men and boys of fighting age are vetted for any links to the group before being allowed to join their families in camps for displaced people in the Kurdish-controlled region of the country".
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"Sirte, Libya, November 26, 2016: A fighter of the Libyan forces affiliated with the Tripoli government gets some rest whilst outside, clashes with ISIS continue in the Al Jiza neighbourhood". From the Series "We are taking no Prisoners"
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"Dandong, Liaoning, China". From the Series "Sweet Water Bitter Earth"
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“Society constrains the divorcee. What you can or can't do, remains under the control of others. As an independent single mother, I've made peace with the sacrifices I've had to make, but also managed to find happiness on my own”. Nassiba, fashion designer. Jeddah
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"Illusion-twins"
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From the Series "Seascapes"
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"China, Fuling, Chongqing municipality. January 2015.New hot spring spa complex".
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"Participants wait backstage during a regional bodybuilding championship in Stavropol, southern Russia, April 10, 2016". From the Series "Pumping Iron in Russia"
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From the Series " The Twins' Gymnastic Dream"
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"Russia Close-Up #2".
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From the Series "Indelible Marks"
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"Bucharest, Romania, April 2016: A 33-year-old cam model after his day shift in a room at Studio N2". From the Series "Live Chat Studio Industry".
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"Cristóbal Arenas Moncayo is 10 years old. To fight a bull is something beautiful, there are a lot of emotions, adrenaline, excitement and the danger is always there. As a torero you are always afraid but this is normal, it makes you stronger and helps you to take control of your fears, from that point you move ahead". From the Series "The little Bullfighters of Mexico"
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"A person is seen on the front porch of a home as it is surrounded by flood waters in Port Vincent, Louisiana". From the Series "Louisiana Flooding".
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"Mexico, Baja California, Sea of Cortez. A big school of Jacks forming a ceiling found at the protected marine area of Cabo Pulmo". From the Series "Silent Kingdom". Since childhood, I have been attracted to the sea.
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"Is a panda cub fooled by a panda suit? That’s the hope at Wolong’s Hetaoping center, where captive-bred bears training for life in the wild are kept relatively sheltered from human contact, even during a rare hands-on checkup". From the Series "Pandas gone wild". Seen by few, but beloved by billions, the giant pandais one of the most recognized animals on the planet.
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"When I was a child, my grandmother said ‘Anything with a shape will eventually be gone’, and what she told me has remained in my mind to this day. Back then, I had no doubt that some things would definitely last forever". From the Series "Hanafuda Shouzoku"
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"Sequence as Gael Monfils dives at Australian Open 2016". From the Series "‘Superman’ Gael Monfils dives at Australian Open 2016"
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"I was in Liuwa Plain at the end of the dry season. When the rains finally arrived thousands of Wildebeest migrated to the area. I positioned a remote flash in front of the herd and drove round so that I could use the flash to back-light the rain. It was a challenging shot as I had to predict the movement of the animals and hope they passed between me and the flash.
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"Student at University". From the Series "I know what beauty looks like"
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"The Lover. Everyday objects photographed in the harsh sun". From the Series "The Cave"
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