Culture - 2019 Open competition Shortlist

Below are the successful shortlisted images from 2019 Sony World Photography Awards Open competition, Culture category. View the winners gallery to see the category winners.

Yi Han, China Mainland, 'The Sound of Light'

Lifeng Chen, China Mainland, 'A Red River of Faith'

Pan Jianhua, China Mainland, 'Shadow Puppetry'

Georgios Papapostolou, Greece, 'Greek traditional life'

Ming Kai Chan, Hong Kong SAR, 'Drawing the Happiness '

Kiarash Karami, Iran, 'End of Nowruz celebration in Iran (Kurdistan)'

Alessandro Zanoni, Italy, w'Bright Minuet'

Michael Chee Yen Chuan, Malaysia, 'Have you been to a Chinese Opera?'

Eng Chung Tong, Malaysia, 'Synergy of Humanity'

Dikpal Thapa, Nepal, 'The Harvest '

Tomek Kozlowski, Poland, 'Winner of Naadam'

Alex Robciuc, Romania, 'Vasile Oanea'

Remus Daescu, Romania, 'The Mona Lisa'