Sony World Photography Awards 2021 Winners Announced

At Large March 19, 2021 Jeremy Howell

Last year offered innumerable compelling subjects to photographers around the world. The 2021 Sony World Photography Awards honor the best single images from 2020. Images are judged within one of the following ten categories: architecture, creative, landscape, lifestyle, motion, natural world & wildlife, object, portraiture, street photography, and travel. While we are all still making sense of 2020, the ten category winning images below will help us remember and reflect upon a year like no other.

Image Descriptions Provided by World Photography Organization

Drying Fish by Khanh Phan

"A woman dries trays of fish at Long Hai fish market in the Vung Tau province of Vietnam. Thousands of trays of scad are dried on rooftops and in yards by hundreds of workers. I came to Long Hai on a photo trip and was overwhelmed by the scale of the fishing village."

Girl Power by Marijo Maduna

"A young girl shows off her skills, diving from a cliff on the island of Lokrum in Croatia."

Copyright: © Cristo Pihlamäe, Estonia, Category Winner, Open, Natural World & Wildlife, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards

Little Kiss by Cristo Pihlamäe

Memento by Kata Zih

"Autumn of 2020…Pandemic, lockdown, solitude, memories…"

Copyright: © Lyudmila Sabanina, Russian Federation, Category Winner, Open, Portraiture, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards

Son by Lyudmila Sabanina

"Another side of childhood: contemplation and calm."

Disinfection by F.Dilek Uyar

"During the coronavirus pandemic, the Health Affairs unit of Ankara Municipality sprays all public transportation, day and night."

I wanted to portray a hybrid African-Victorian Taking a Victorian dress and merging it with traditional shona cooking utensils was my way of showing a multifaceted identity

African Victorian by Tamary Kudita

"With this image, I wanted to portray a hybrid African-Victorian: my way of probing the stereotypical contextualization of the black female body. I provide an alternative version of reality, where dualities fuse to create a new visual language. Taking a Victorian dress and merging it with traditional shona cooking utensils was my way of showing a multifaceted identity."