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"These photographs provide agency to those whose lives and livelihoods have been destroyed by mining processes and the long-term environmental ramifications..."
Sony Global Imaging Ambassador Davide Monteleone is an artist and a visual journalist working on long term independent project using photography video and text.
"To be good photographers I believe you need good education in all disciplines, to see and learn about the world in all its facets. Be hungry of knowledge."
The judges are looking to award the best single images from across the 10 diverse categories, from Architecture and Landscape to Still Life and Street Photography.
Winning & shortlisted photographers will be included in a global press campaign, featured across the World Photography Organisation website and exhibited at Somerset House, London in Spring 2017.
"The scale and dimensions was outrageous. The architecture was mind-blowing. The feeling was other-wordly. It was love at first sight."