A selection of entries from the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards

The 2020 Sony World Photography Awards are now accepting entries. Check out some of the amazing pictures that have been submitted to this year's competition in the Open category. You still have until January 7, 2020 to submit your work in this competition category. Don't miss this opportunity, it is free to enter!

Rothko Berg © Robert Bolton

Open competition, Landscape, entry, 2020, Sony World Photography Awards
The rectangular iceberg reminded me of a Mark Rothko abstract painting with its shadow on the water and the sky above added to the later effect. This berg was also enormous but the scale is unknowable from the image.

Flicking the v’s © Francesco Fantini

Open competition, Street Photography, entry, 2020, Sony World Photography Awards
London, Westminster Bridge, 2019

Mam Tor At Dawn © Tom Wingfield

Open competition, Landscape, entry, 2020, Sony World Photography Awards
Sunrise at Mam Tor, Peak District, with a cloud inversion beginning to form to the right in the Hope Valley, using the fence running long the left side of the great ridge as a leading line. One the best sunrises I've witnessed.

Ping Pong Club © Hardijanto Budyman

Open competition, Creative, entry, 2020, Sony World Photography Awards
I really love Ping Pong! When I was a boy I used to be a Ping Pong player in my home town club. The story of this picture is about daily activities of Ping Pong players in a club.

Beyond the wall#4 © Francesco Pace Rizzi

Open competition, Creative, entry, 2020, Sony World Photography Awards
Image taken with multiple overlapping photos

Incensing work 1 © Khanh Phan

Open competition, Travel, entry, 2020, Sony World Photography Awards
The woman is drying sticks of incense , a step in producting of incense. In Vietnam, incense is a tool helping people to communicate with the spiritual life. When incense is burnt and fired, they believe that they could communicate with dead people and aslo pray for something at that time.

Open competition, Street Photography, entry, 2020, Sony World Photography Awards
An Oromo girl playing with ball and a Harari woman passing by. Harar, Ethiopia 2019
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Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

By Virginia Hanusik

Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

2024 | 184 pages

In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water―and the history of controlling it―is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry―past, present, and future. The book sustains our physical, mental, and emotional connections to these landscapes through a collection of photographs by Virginia Hanusik. Framing the architecture and infrastructure of South Louisiana with both distance and intimacy, introspection and expansiveness, this work engages new memories, microhistories, anecdotes, and insights from scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners working in the region. Unfolding alongside and in dialogue with Hanusik’s photographs, these reflections soberly and hopefully populate images of South Louisiana’s built and natural environments, opening up multiple pathways that defy singularity and complicate the disaster-oriented imagery often associated with the region and its people. In staging these meditations on water, life, and land loss, this book invites readers to join both Hanusik and the contributors in reading multiplicity into South Louisiana’s water-ruled landscapes.

With texts from Richie Blink, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jessica Dandridge, Rebecca Elliott, Michael Esealuka, T. Mayheart Dardar, Billy Fleming, Andy Horowitz, Arthur Johnson, Louis Michot, Nini Nguyen, Kate Orff, Jessi Parfait, Amy Stelly, Jonathan Tate, Aaron Turner, and John Verdin.

Rawsht Twana: Twana’s Box

By Rawsht Twana

Publisher : Fraglich Publishing

2024 | 252 pages

Twana’s Box' can be described in many ways: a journey through a photographer’s rare archive, documenting the Kurdistan region of Iraq from 1974–1992; a son’s quest to find his lost father, who was murdered by a military regime; a young man’s way to piece together the fragments of a scattered family in a scattered culture; the becoming of a photographer who, through the stories of others, starts to understand his own identity in times of war. 'Twana’s Box' is not only the photo book that holds a selection of Twana Abdullah’s archive; it is a unique insight into a time and place in a region that has since completely transformed. Rawsht has spent years piecing together his father’s negatives and stories. His archival work inspired him to become a photographer himself, working for Metrography – the first independent Iraqi photo agency – before immigrating to Europe. ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, Kurdish/Arabic/English

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering

By Akinbode Akinbiyi

Publisher : Spector Books

2024 | 252 pages

Taken across Europe and Africa, Akinbiyi’s images of everyday city life muse on the sociopolitical labyrinths of urban society

Whether in Bamako, Berlin, London, Lagos or Durban, British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi (born 1946) creates black-and-white street scenes that function as visual metaphors, ruminating on cultural change, social exclusion and colonialism’s effect on urban planning.

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm

By Grace Wales Bonner

Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2024 | 184 pages

A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer
This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm―Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection, is an artist’s book created by the acclaimed London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner as “an archive of soulful expression.” Through an extraordinary selection of nearly 80 works from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection and archives, this unique volume draws multisensory connections between pictures and poems, music and performance, hearing and touch, gestures and vibrations, and bodies in motion. Photographs, scores and films by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Lorna Simpson and Ming Smith, among others, are juxtaposed with signal texts by Black authors spanning the past century, including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner―Spirit Movers, this resplendent publication is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression that echoes Wales Bonner’s own vibrant, virtuosic designs.

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