23 apr 2018Tempo di lettura: 8 min

Una selezione delle migliori fotografie del Sony World Photography Awards 2018

Il Sony World Photography Awards è uno dei premi più prestigiosi al mondo, per questo quando abbiamo avuto la notizia dei risultati abbiamo deciso di vedere le foto passate alle selezioni finali e le vincitrici e di fare questa galleria per mostrarvi quelle che abbiamo reputato essere le migliori. Come ogni anno tanti gli italiani selezionati, alcuni li troverete anche nella nostra selezione.

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Image Name: Lightning Strike

Photographer Name: Santiago Borja

Year: 2018

Image Description: A storm is developing over the Ecuadorean Amazonia when all of the sudden, one of its powerful lightning leaves the storm and traces a very particular path in the air before hitting the ground away from the storm.

Image Name: When The Sky Lights Up

Photographer Name: Nicky Loh

Year: 2018

Image Description: A traditional native tepee lights up at B Dene in Yellowknife during an aurora showing on New Years Day January 1, 2017.

Image Name: Golden Light over Opabin Lake

Photographer Name: David Hua

Year: 2018

Image Description: It was taken at the top of Opabin plateau, Yoho national park , after three hours hiking. The scene was so spectacular after first round of snow in Sept.

Image Name: Underwater view of the winter Lofoten

Photographer Name: Sergey Lukankin

Year: 2018

Image Description: View from under the water in the village Å. Lofoten Islands, Norway Panorama of two frames

Image Name: The Horns at sunrise

Photographer Name: Wenchang Chen

Year: 2018

Image Description: I took this photo in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile’s Patagonia region in Feb 2017, I came to this scheduled viewpoint in early morning, I was fortunate to get pretty amazing weather.The sunshine shined the famous Cuernos del Paine peaks, they looked magnificent and incredible.

Copyright: © Wenchang Chen, China, Commended, Open, Landscape & Nature (2018 Open competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

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Photographer Name: Joseph Anthony

Year: 2018

Image Description: Before sunrise from a small boat at the ocean entry at the base of Mount Kilauea volcano. A visceral, challenging and exhausting shoot. Balancing on the boat, hand held with a 400mm prime lens in low light. A "firehose" was erupting from the cliff into it's own huge cone and then flowing like a flaming tributary into the ocean via various mini lava falls like this one. Primordial, evocative and atmospheric from the mystical fog to the piercing contrast of the single drip of lava. I felt as if I was watching the dawn of creation on earth.

Copyright: © Joseph Anthony, United Kingdom, Commended, Open, Landscape & Nature (2018 Open competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

Image Name: One way forward

Photographer Name: Chin Boon Leng

Year: 2018

Image Description: A handful of shepherds chasing horses on a hill. Xinjing, China.

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Photographer Name: Alys Tomlinson

Year: 2018

Image Description: Untitled from the series 'Ex-Voto'

Series Name: Ex-Voto

Series Description: A handwritten note neatly folded and hidden in the crevice of a rock, crosses etched onto stone, ribbon carefully wrapped around piles of twigs. These are all offerings of religious devotion, known as ‘Ex-Votos’ and found at Christian pilgrimage sites worldwide. Often placed anonymously and hidden from view, pilgrims leave ex-votos as expressions of hope and gratitude, creating a tangible narrative between faith, person and the landscape. Taken at the pilgrimage sites of Lourdes (France), Ballyvourney (Ireland) and Grabarka (Poland), the project encompasses formal portraiture, large format landscape and small, detailed still-lifes of the objects and markers left behind. Shot on 5x4, large format film, the images evoke a distinct stillness and reflect the mysterious, timeless quality present at these sites of great spiritual contemplation. People and landscape merge as place, memory and history entwine. NB all images untitled and taken in 2016/2017

Copyright: © Alys Tomlinson, United Kingdom, Photographer of the Year, Professional, Discovery, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

Image Name: aerial view

Photographer Name: Elena Georgiou

Year: 2018

Image Description: An aerial view from above a street

Copyright: © Elena Georgiou, Cyprus, Commended, Open, Street Photography (Open competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

Image Name: East of the East(Ⅰ)

Photographer Name: Zhaoting Wu

Year: 2018

Image Description: Take the picture at Tokyo Sky Tree .Just after the typhoon, the sun's rays shot out from behind the clouds.

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Photographer Name: Fabio Renzi

Year: 2018

Image Description: Never-born sports centre was designed for the 2009 World Aquatics Championships by architect Santiago Calatrava and flocks of birds - Double exposure

Image Name: Mammatus

Photographer Name: Mitch Dobrowner

Year: 2018

Image Description: Bolton, Kansas

Series Name: Storm Systems

Copyright: © Mitch Dobrowner, United States of America, 2nd Place, Professional, Natural World & Wildlife (2018 Professional competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

Image Name: Easiness

Photographer Name: Olena Leliuk

Year: 2018

Image Description: I saw a beautiful lighting...

Image Name: Body Kick

Photographer Name: Paul Lukin

Year: 2018

Image Description: landing a counter body kick

Series Name: Last Days of Lumpinee

Series Description: After five decades and countless epic battles, the Lumpinee Muay Thai stadium held its final event and was demolished. The stadium, which is the Thai Boxing equivalent to Madison Square Garden was considered sacred ground, where every aspiring fighter dreamed of fighting. The essay is a document of, the legendary stadiums final days.

Copyright: © Paul Lukin, Croatia, Shortlist, Professional, Sport (Professional competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

Image Name: Cave of Skulls

Photographer Name: Min Ly

Year: 2018

Image Description: This cave was used during Pol Pot’s regime for dumping corpses of victims of the genocide which took place in Cambodia in the 1970’s. Thousand of innocent people where brought to the rim of the cave, then killed and thrown into the depth of this cave. Now it has become a tourist attraction for locals and foreigners as well. Monk often come here for praying and meditating. This photo was taken on the occasion of the seasonal change of clothes for monks in order to prepare for meditation. I took this photo at the precise moment when when the sun is positioned due west and shines through the rocks. A few burning joss sticks revealed the sun rays.

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Photographer Name: Don Ferdinand Tabbun

Year: 2018

Image Description: EVERY FRIDAY OF THE LAST FIVE YEARS, A MAN NAMED PRASANTH IS FEEDING A GROUP OF PIGEON IN ONE PARTICULAR STREET IN ABU DHABI. HE IS FROM INDIA. THIS DEDICATION REMINDS HIM OF HIS CHILDHOOD DAYS WITH HIS FATHER DOING THE SAME THING. FOR THEM, DOING THIS IS A SYMBOL OF GOOD HEART AND A MOMENT FOR HAPPINESS.

Copyright: © Don Ferdinand Tabbun, Philippines, Commended, Open, Motion (Open competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

Image Name: Enafrinat

Photographer Name: Antonio Gibotta

Year: 2018

Image Description: Each 28th december, in Ibi - province of Alicante, in Spain -, the "The floured's war" takes place. It's a festival in which the citizens are divided into two groups: the first is called the Enfarinat (the floured), that simulate a coup d'etat; the other one tries to calm down the rebellion. The teams plays with flour, water, eggs and coloured smoke bombs: the photos taken during the match are beautiful. It has been celebrated since 200 years and it's linked to the day of the massacre of innocents, when Herod, king of Judea, ordered to kill each baby in order to find Jesus. Antonio Gibotta - Angency Controluce

Series Name: Els Enfarinat

Series Description: Each 28th december, in Ibi - province of Alicante, in Spain -, the "The floured's war" takes place. It's a festival in which the citizens are divided into two groups: the first is called the Enfarinat (the floured), that simulate a coup d'etat; the other one tries to calm down the rebellion. The teams plays with flour, water, eggs and coloured smoke bombs: the photos taken during the match are beautiful. It has been celebrated since 200 years and it's linked to the day of the massacre of innocents, when Herod, king of Judea, ordered to kill each baby in order to find Jesus. Antonio Gibotta - Agency Controluce

Copyright: © Antonio Gibotta, Italy, 2nd Place, Professional, Discovery (Professional competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

Image Name: The Heroes

Photographer Name: Wannnapong Surarochprajak

Year: 2018

Image Description: Work with heart, the firefighters are who we can truly call heroes.

Copyright: © Wannnapong Surarochprajak, Thailand, Commended, Open, Motion (Open competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

Image Name: This killing emptiness

Photographer Name: Raed Ammari

Year: 2018

Image Description: Taken in Denver/Colorado at a corner of a street. This homeless man was sitting on a wheelchair feeling sad after a hit & run accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. Fall of 2017

Image Name: Sunset Double Exposure

Photographer Name: Poppy Cornell

Year: 2018

Image Description: I took two different pictures Portrait Photo Taken; May 2017 Portrait Photo Taken; Peterborough Regional College Studio Portrait Photo For; Work experience to do with Fashion Portrait Photo How; Using studio equipment, studio lights and a camera, with a model. Landscape Photo Taken; January 2017 Landscape Photo Taken; Hinchingbrooke Park Landscape Photo why; Love Landscapes my favourite photography Landscape Photo How; Using natural lighting and my camera.

I created this double exposure because i love Portraits and Landscapes, and wanted to use my techniques and my passion to mix them together, create this double exposure. I done this by using Adobe Photoshop using different tools to create this look.

Copyright: © Poppy Cornell, United Kingdom, Commended, Open, Enhanced (Open competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

Image Name: Eye to Eye

Photographer Name: Brendon Cremer

Year: 2018

Image Description: This image from an underground hide at zimanga private game reserve in South Africa. I have spent about a month in total in this hide hoping for a big cat to come a drink and only once was i privileged the opportunity to capture this beautiful big male leopard cautiously coming to drink a mere 3m from me. Seeing and photographing these big cats is always so amazing, but being so close and at eye level with it is just on another level completely.

Copyright: © Brendon Cremer, South Africa, Commended, Open, Wildlife (Open competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards

Image Name: Watch your back

Photographer Name: Pedro Jarque Krebs

Year: 2018

Image Description: Curious red flamingo

Image Name: Respect for Love.jpg

Photographer Name: Moiz Ismaili

Year: 2018

Image Description: In Feb 2017 I visited Kenya first time for official work, I made few days spare and visited the Masai Mara National Park, I got some great experience of Safari and off course my passion of photography. I was lucky enough to witnessing capture the Lion's family and young cubs and their fun activities. This image was captured right before mating where respect and love was amazing.

Image Name: Face to face in forest

Photographer Name: Denis Palanque

Year: 2018

Image Description: Prospecting in the Madagascar deciduous forest during mission for the IUCN, far from the tourist trails, we had the chance to share an incredible moment with a group of Red-fronted Lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons). We were able to spend an hour on one of their place looking for food. An incredible moment engraved in our memory. These animals are incredibly curious and intelligent. Very far from being aggressive, they took the time to study us mischievously before returning to their feeding activity. I take this picture thanks to my liveview mode.

Image Name: Roadside Friend

Photographer Name: Corey Arnold

Year: 2018

Image Description: A red fox approaches on the side of the lonely main road in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Habituated to humans as a food source, these foxes stand by the side of the road and wait for handouts from passing motorists. I laid down in front of the headlights of my car and this fox approached me curiously.

Copyright: © Corey Arnold, United States of America, Commended, Open, Wildlife (Open competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards