The World’s Largest Photography Award Reveals its Stunning Shortlist
Tauheed Ahmad Nawaz
The World’s Largest Photography Award Reveals its Stunning Shortlist. Swirling tornadoes, glittering ice caves, and a breaching killer whale. The world’s largest photography awards disclose its stunning shortlist. There’re some of the entries to have made the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards, now in its 10th year. You can see a vast tornado over a deserted highway in Texas, whereas another capture of an almighty killer whale breaches off the northern coast of Hokkaido in Japan, tossing silver shards of glimmering water into the air as it breaks the surface.
Thus, the 49 countries are represented in the shortlist, with the winners to be revealed on April 20 in London. These are just some of the moments judges for the Sony World Photography Awards have picked out for this year’s shortlist. For the 2017 competition, the largest in the world, now in its 10th year – photographers from across the planet entered a record 227,596 images across the awards’ Professional, Open, and Youth categories. This was indeed a truly global reach to the Sony World Photography Awards judging this year – the images were more diverse and broad-ranging than have ever seen before.
A bedouin boy in Oman poses with his father’s rifleA boy in Nakhon si Thammarat, South Thailand, rests his weary head on a buffalo in the mists of the early morningA chorus of five baby swallows eagerly await the return of their mother, who will drop food into their tiny beaksA firefighter crosses into a burning building to douse fire at Tampaco Foils Limited, a packaging factory in the Tongi industrial area near Dhaka, BangladeshA tornado supercell storm rolls over the town of Stratford, Texas, USACaught in the crossfire, Iraqi civilians displaced by fighting in the village of Shora, just south of Mosul, reach an Iraqi army checkpoint on the northern outskirts of QayyarahChristina Roemmelt took this startling image of an ice cave in December 2016 after a long hike to a glacier in an undisclosed locationHere in Si Chuan, China, the Five Sciences Buddhism Academy rests under stormy clouds just moments before the heavy rainIn Japan, an almighty killer whale breaches off the northern coast of Hokkaido, tossing silver shards of glimmering water into the air as it breaks the surfaceOff the coast of Mexico’s Revillagigedo Islands, a lone silkie shark illuminated by the sunlight lurks beneath the surface near a rocky wallPaulus Sampe Lemba, who died at the age of 62. Every three or five years, Toraja people pay their respects to the deceased by cleaning corpses and dressing them in their favorite clothesThe composited and manipulated the photograph deliver the surreal feeling of staying in a concrete jungle and the desire for freedomThe photo is taken at a cemetery in Manila, Philippines, where a community of homeless people lives, including this child who has found a balloon to play with among the unclaimed bones and bodiesThe scattered stars of the Milky Way light up the sky above the main highway through the southern Alps in the South Island of New ZealandThe sun setting over Yosemite Valley as shot from Taft Point while my girlfriend poses on the cliff edge during our road trip across the AmericasThousands of Muslims in Tongi, near Dhaka in Bangladesh, take Friday prayers in congregation grounds as part of Biswa Istema, the second largest religious gathering of Muslims in the worldTurkish photographer Oktay Subasi captured this majestic image of a rancher amid a herd of horses cantering through the dustPier Mane captured this indigenous tribe of the Solomon islands, where he says: ‘It seems kids learn to paddle before they walk’The World’s Largest Photography Award – Wildebeest kick up clouds of dust as they charge through the African Serengeti during their annual mass-migration
