© Tino Solomon
Seven of the shortlisted UK photographers entered the Open category, which is open to non-professionals. They are today named as: Alex Ingle, Lewis Outing, Philip Joyce, Grant Ritchie, Lesley Hall, Jack Lawson and Tino Solomon.
‘There is a huge range of techniques and styles from the British photographers on the shortlist, but all are characterised by their originality and fresh approach to their chosen category,’ organisers said in a statement.
The competition has attracted more than one million submissions since its launch in 2007 and this year saw a 135% increase in UK entries over 2015.
World Photography Organisation CEO Scott Gray said: ‘Despite the increase in the number of photographers, and the amount of imagery that required judging, this year above all others we have witnessed a wealth of powerful imagery in the traditionally strong social documentary categories as well as the art and conceptual work.’
Gray added: ‘It is wonderful for the medium that it can offer such rich diversity.’
The shortlisted photographers will go forward to compete for a share of the $30,000 grand prize at the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards ceremony, to be held in London on 21 April.
© Grant Ritchie
© Jack Lawson
© Lesley Hall
© Lewis Outing
SHORTLISTED PHOTOGRAPHERS
PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES
Architecture
• Petr Antonov, Russia
• Jonathan Carvajal, Colombia
• Werner Elmer, Austria
• Amélie Labourdette, France
• Paul Störm, Australia
• Jonathan Tan, Singapore
• Hui Zhang, China
• Stephan Zirwes, Germany
Candid
• Valerio Bispuri, Italy
• Yvonne Brandwijk, Netherlands
• Giancarlo Ceraudo, Italy
• Liu Chengliang, China
• Fan Li, China
• Nick Ng, Malaysia
• Alexandre Pruvost, France
• Andrea Rossato, Italy
• Kirstin Schmitt, Germany
• Constantinos Xenoulis, Greece
Conceptual
• Alejandro Beltran, Venezuela
• Simon Brann Thorpe, United Kingdom
• Kate Davis, United Kingdom
• Vladimir Frumin, United States
• Barbaros Kayan, Turkey
• Julien Mauve, France
• Poya Raissi, Iran
• Lawrence Sumulong, Philippines
• Manuel Velasquez Tobar, Honduras
Landscape
• Maoyuan Cui, China
• Peter Franck, Germany
• Max Knight, United Kingdom
• Maroesjka Lavigne, Belgium
• Aurélien Maréchal, France
• Florian Mueller, Germany
• James Reeve, United Kingdom
• Stefan Schlumpf, Switzerland
• Prakash Singh, India
Portraiture
• Dmitri Beliakov, Russia
• Marcello Bonfanti, Italy
• Ruben Salgado Escudero, Spain
• Fauzan Ijazah, Indonesia
• Corinna Kern, Germany
• Armand Tamboly, Egypt
• Patrick Willocq, France
Staged
• Pierre Adenis, France
• Alberto Alicata, Italy
• Juliette Blanchard, France
• Kristoffer Eliassen, Norway
• Julia Fullerton-Batten, United Kingdom
• Dina Goldstein, Canada
• Photographer Hal, Japan
• Kumi Oguro, Japan
• Oana Stoian, Romania
• Cristina Vatielli, Italy
Still Life
• Francesco Amorosino, Italy
• Ilva Beretta, Sweden
• Kiliii Fish, United States
• Simone da Lima, Netherlands
• Daniele Robotti, Italy
• Julien Roubinet, France
• Oliver Schwarzwald, Germany
• Hiroshi Watanabe, Japan
• Bibiana Omar Zajtai, Spain
Campaign
• Antoine Repessé, France
• Christian Aslund, Sweden
• David Chancellor, United Kingdom
• Hernan Churba, Argentina
• Giles Clarke, United Kingdom
• Rob Gregory, United States
• Jetmir Idrizi, Kosovo
• Ed Kashi, United States
Contemporary Issues
• Laura Aggio Caldon, Italy
• Yong An He, China
• Kevin Frayer, Canada
• Simona Ghizzoni, Italy
• Asghar Khamseh, Iran
• Fan Li, China
• Kiki Streitberger, Germany
• Marielle Van Uitert, Netherlands
Current Affairs
• Andrew Burton, United States
• Gabriele Micalizzi, Italy
• Amnon Gutman, Romania
• Brendan Hoffman, United States
• Jason Koxvold, United Kingdom
• Aleksandra Kulak, Russia
• Andrea and Magda Micelli, Italy
• Alessandro Penso, Italy
• Angelos Tzortzinis, Greece
Daily Life
• Jean-Marc Caimi, Italy
• Peter Dench, United Kingdom
• Sandra Hoyn, Germany
• Espen Rasmussen, Norway
• Tiplea Remus, Romania
• Stephanie Sinclair, United States
• Anton Unitsyn, Russia
Environment
• Kevin Frayer, Canada
• Li Feng, China
• Lucy Nicholson, United Kingdom
• Alexander Semenov, Russia
• Mohammed Yousef, Kuwait
• Zhe Zhu, China
People
• Alessandro D’Angelo, Italy
• Daniel Berehulak, Australia
• Denise Felkin, United Kingdom
• Francesco Fratto, Italy
• Kevin Frayer, Canada
• Liz Hingley, United Kingdom
• Jordi Pizarro, Spain
• Filippo Venturi, Italy
Sport
• Antoine Bruy , France
• Annick Donkers, Belgium
• Matthias Hangst, Germany
• Michael Hanke, Czech Republic
• Jens Juul, Denmark
• Nikolai Linares Larsen, Denmark
• Patrick Sinkel, Germany
OPEN CATEGORIES
Architecture
• Laurian Ghinitoiu, Romania
• Rados?aw Go?dzielewski, Poland
• Attila Balogh, Hungary
• Javad Rooein, Iran
• Martin Seraphin, Germany
• Max van Son, Netherlands
• Nils Olof Wendel, Sweden
• Filip Wolak, Poland
• Zoltan Kasza, Hungary
Arts and Culture
• Kyaw Bo Bo Han, Myanmar
• José Alberto Sotomayor Jiménez, Peru
• Amir Hoosein Kamali, Iran
• Swee Choo Oh, Malaysia
• Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Bangladesh
• MD Tanveer Rohan, Bangladesh
• Nader Saadallah, Egypt
• Minh Ngo Thanh, Vietnam
• Kamil Wojtyła Poland
• Longxiang Xie, China
Enhanced
• Nathalie Capitan, Switzerland
• Seandel Edwards, Trinidad and Tobago
• Sang Kill Kim, South Korea
• Luca Laghetti, Italy
• Pedro Diaz Molins, Spain
• Aslan Nahich, Iran
• Dan Novak, Germany
• Christian Spreng, Switzerland
• Mickael Szymanski, France
• Salvo Bombara, Italy
Low Light
• Theng Sin Chong, Malaysia
• Yiorgos Doukanaris, Cyprus
• Vincent Frascello, United States
• Stefan Liebermann, Germany
• Lijun Wang, China
• Sai Aung Main, Myanmar
• Egor Nikiforov, Russia
• Kei Nomiyama, Japan
• Sanghamitra Sarkar, India
• Tino Solomon, United Kingdom
Nature and Wildlife
• Valter Bernardeschi, Italy
• Nick Kontostavlakis, Greece
• Eric Madeja, Switzerland
• Christian Massari, Italy
• Andrey Narchuk, Russia
• Imre Potyó, Hungary
• Michaela Šmídová, Czech Republic
• Simona Tedesco, Italy
• Dennis Vandermeersch, Belgium
• Steiner Wang, Taiwan
Panoramic
• Maurizio Casula, Italy
• Daniel Fleischhacker, Germany
• Stefano Guerrini, Italy
• Markus van Hauten, Germany
• Dikky Oesin, Indonesia (shortlisted twice)
• Christian Ringer, Germany
• Grant Ritchie, United Kingdom
• Claude Roy, Canada
• Carlos F. Turienzo, Spain
People
• Karolis Janulis, Lithuania
• Elie Kauffmann, France
• Michele Liberti, Italy
• Borodkina Mariia, Russia
• Alexandre Meneghini, Brazil
• Daniel Arranz Molinero, Spain
• Lewis Outing, United Kingdom
• Nikunj Rathod, India
• Marius Vieth, Germany
Smile
• Gultekin Alkurt, Turkey
• Atif Amin, Afghanistan
• Jaydip Bhattacharya, India
• Alex Ingle, United Kingdom
• Jack Lawson, United Kingdom
• Kajan Madrasmail, Singapore
• Hendra Permana, Indonesia
• MD Tanveer Rohan, Bangladesh
• Julien Taub, France
• Peter Voss, Germany
Split Second
• Khairel Anuar Che Ani, Malaysia
• Chaiyot Chanyam, Thailand
• Mark Fulinara, United States
• Dmitry Ivanov, Russia
• Philip Joyce, United Kingdom
• Franck Tridon, France
• Petra Van Borm, Belgium
• Cheung Yin Fang, Malaysia
Travel
• Abhijit Banerjee, India
• Tugo Cheng, Hong Kong
• Simone Cmoon, Switzerland
• Ralph Gräf, Germany
• Lesley Hall, United Kingdom
• Nick Kontostavlakis, Greece
• Anasuya Mandal, India
• Adriano Neves, Portugal
• Andrej Tarfila, Slovenia
• Tan Jia Yi, Malaysia
YOUTH COMPETITION
Culture
• Zhu Lin Ch’ng, Malaysia
• Sepehr Jamshidi Fard, Iran
• Julia Golubov, Canada
• Anna Jolly, United Kingdom
• Jason Liu, Canada
• Leena Meyers, Germany
• Ramadhan Sinclair, Malaysia
• Zohaib Tariq, Pakistan
• Agung Krisna Wibawa, Indonesia (shortlisted twice in this category)
Environment
• Charlie Burr, United States
• Giorgio Granata, Italy
• Jiaye Li, China
• Lake Lewis, United States
• Kumail Rizvi, Pakistan
• Anais Stupka, Italy
• Michael Theodric, Indonesia
• Ekaterina Yashchenko, Russia
• Hongbo Zhu, China
Portraits
• Wai Lam Cheng, Hong Kong
• Sam Delaware, United States
• Ahmed Gaber, Egypt
• Arno Goetz, United States
• Thomas Hanks, United Kingdom
• Gina Ienopoli, United States
• Shahzad Khan, Pakistan
• Ivana Pejak, Serbia
• Talia Rudofsky, United Kingdom
