Sony World Photography Awards 2027 just launched! The 20th edition is now open for entries from all around the world. Have you been working on an exciting new project? Or perhaps you’re focusing on striking single shots instead? Are you a photography student wanting to take the next step in your career, or maybe an aspiring creator 19 years-old and under, eager to share your talent with the world? The Sony World Photography Awards are completely free to enter and open to photographers worldwide shooting on any device. Top prizes include $25,000, a solo exhibition, top Sony digital imaging equipment, inclusion in the book, worldwide recognition through press and media coverage – plus more!

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Sony World Photography Awards 2026 just launched! The 19th edition is now open for entries from all around the world. Have you been working on an exciting new project? Or perhaps you’re focusing on striking single shots instead? Are you a photography student wanting to take the next step in your career, or maybe an aspiring creator 19 years-old and under, eager to share your talent with the world? The Sony World Photography Awards are completely free to enter and open to photographers worldwide shooting on any device. Top prizes include $25,000, a solo display at the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition in London and globally, top Sony digital imaging equipment, inclusion in the book, worldwide recognition through press and media coverage – plus more!

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Sony World Photography Awards 2025 just launched! The 18th edition is now open for entries from all around the world. Have you been working on an exciting new project? Or perhaps you’re focusing on striking single shots instead? Are you a photography student wanting to take the next step in your career, or maybe an aspiring creator 19 years-old and under, eager to share your talent with the world? The Sony World Photography Awards are completely free to enter and open to photographers worldwide shooting on any device. Top prizes include $25,000, a solo display at the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition in London and globally, top Sony digital imaging equipment, inclusion in the book, worldwide recognition through press and media coverage – plus more!

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The World Photography Organisation has opened entries for the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s most diverse photography competition. Now in its 17th year, the Awards continue to champion inclusivity through the free entry process, supporting photographers at each stage of their career. Made up of four competitions (Professional, Open, Student and Youth), all entries are free and the top prize is $25,000.

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The World Photography Organisation has opened entries for the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s most diverse photography competition. Now in its 16th year, the Sony World Photography Awards is the leading competition for photographers and artists working in photography. The Awards is regarded as one of the world’s most prestigious photography competitions by elevating photographers’ careers – from established to emerging – since it started 16 years ago. Made up of four competitions (Professional, Open, Student and Youth), all entries are free and the top prize is $25,000.

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Sony Pictures, the United Nations Foundation and the World Photography Organisation came together to reward creatives interpreting environmental and social concerns of our time through video. By focusing on eight of the Sustainable Development goals, Picture This champions a positive future. Picture This is a global competition that encourages creative video projects championing the protection and preservation of the environment. Set up to reward creatives interpreting environmental and social concerns of our time, Picture This calls all video-makers to raise awareness and inspire action for the planet. If you are an independent video-maker, animator, part of a collective or video production company – large or small – the organizers want to see your projects!

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The World Photography Organisation has opened the 15th edition of the Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s most diverse photography competition. Now in its 15th year, the Sony World Photography Awards are one of the world’s leading photography competitions, celebrating the best contemporary photography from across the globe and providing photographers with significant exposure and career-building opportunities. All category winners of the Professional, Open, Youth and Student competitions will receive digital imaging equipment from Sony. In addition, cash prizes of $25,000 (USD) will be presented to the Photographer of the Year and $5,000 (USD) to the Open Photographer of the Year. All winning and shortlisted photographers’ works will be exhibited at the annual Sony World Photography Awards exhibition in London and will then be toured internationally. The winning images will also be published in the annual Awards book.

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The World Photography Organisation opens the 14th edition of the Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s most diverse photography competition. Now in its 14th year, the Sony World Photography Awards are an authoritative voice in the industry, celebrating the best contemporary photography from the past year, and giving vast exposure and opportunity to photographers worldwide. All category winners of the Professional, Open, Youth and Student competitions receive digital imaging equipment from Sony. In addition, cash prizes of $25,000 (USD) are presented to the Photographer of the Year and $5,000 to the Open Photographer of the Year.

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The World Photography Organisation and ZEISS announce the brief and call for entry for the 2020 ZEISS Photography Award. The ZEISS Photography Award is an international photography competition that challenges photographic artists to submit bodies of work responding to a selected theme. The theme for the fifth edition of the Award is “Seeing Beyond – Discoveries”. The 2020 winner will receive €12,000 worth of ZEISS lenses, €3,000 ​to cover travel costs for a photography project and the opportunity to personally work with ZEISS and the World Photography Organisation. The 2020 ZEISS Photography Award winner will be rewarded at the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards grand ceremony on 16 April 2020 in London.

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The ZEISS Photography Award is now in its fourth year – and is calling on ambitious photographers from across the globe to present their work around the theme “Seeing Beyond – The Unexpected” to the international jury of experts. Participants are required to submit a series of five to ten photographs, including a description of the images, online. The 2019 winner will receive 12,000 Euro worth of ZEISS lenses, 3,000 Euro ​to cover travel costs for a photography project and the opportunity to personally work with ZEISS and the World Photography Organisation.

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