Open Competition: Category Winners & Shortlists Announced - SME Tech Guru

See the Best of Nearly Half a Million Entries to the Sony World Photography Awards

For its 19th edition, the Sony World Photography Awards welcomed over 430,000 submissions for its Open competition from photographers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe. Ten categories, ranging from portraiture to landscapes to travel, encompass the staggering breadth and beauty of nature and society captured throughout 2025. The contest has announced the category winners, including Robby Ogilvie’s vibrant composition of…

Open Competition: Category Winners & Shortlists Announced - SME Tech Guru

The Sony World Photography Awards announce today the 10 category winners and the shortlisted photographers in the 2026 Open competition. Among the shortlisted candidates in the Portraiture category is South African photographer, Kalista Kemp. Kemp has been shortlisted for her image, ‘Man Outside the Church’, which she captured while travelling Ghana. Now in its 19th year, the Open competition recognises the best single images taken in the last y…