To celebrate the opening next week, five limited-edition posters from the Sony World Photography Awards are now available to pre-order. Get merchandise when you book your tickets and simply pick it up during your visit.
Congratulations to Adam Ferguson (Australia) for being awarded this year’s Photographer of the Year title for his series Migrantes. As well as winning a $25,000 (USD) cash prize, Ferguson is given a range of Sony digital imaging kit plus global online coverage. Speaking about the series, Mike Trow, Chair of the 2021 Professional competition says: ‘By giving his subjects the shutter release Adam hands a certain power to the sitter to make that decision on how to be perceived. These photographs are beautiful, meaningful and kind.’
This is a series of self-portraits of migrants in Mexico, as they wait to cross the border into the United States.The life of a migrant at the border, waiting for the right moment to cross into the United States, is often in flux. To capture a piece of this uncertain journey, I mounted a medium format camera on a tripod with a cable release and then stepped back, allowing the migrants to choose the moment of capture and give them agency in the process of documenting their lives.
Photographers could submit a series of five to ten images interpreting one of the ten categories. Each submission entered into the Professional competition was rigorously judged by a panel of expert judges. This year’s category winners each receive Sony digital imaging kit and global online coverage.
To celebrate the opening next week, five limited-edition posters from the Sony World Photography Awards are now available to pre-order. Get merchandise when you book your tickets and simply pick it up during your visit.
