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“During the rains this unnamed kopje (rock outcropping) has a waterhole that brings prey for the Vumbi pride. On this afternoon they rested closely together after all five females  attacked Hildur, the second male in the resident coalition. Why? Maybe simply because  there was not enough food to share”. Michael Nichols, from the USA, won the “Nature & Wildlife” for his photo series “The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion”. (Photo by Michael Nichols/Sony World Photography Awards)

“During the rains this unnamed kopje (rock outcropping) has a waterhole that brings prey for the Vumbi pride. On this afternoon they rested closely together after all five females attacked Hildur, the second male in the resident coalition. Why? Maybe simply because there was not enough food to share”. Michael Nichols, from the USA, won the “Nature & Wildlife” for his photo series “The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion”. (Photo by Michael Nichols/Sony World Photography Awards)




“We habituated the Vumbi pride to a remote-controlled toy camera car and were able to make very intimate ground-level images. This gave a dignified insight into lion social behavior. The fragile car would morph into a rugged robot tank as the assignment continued”. (Photo by Michael Nichols/Sony World Photography Awards)

“We habituated the Vumbi pride to a remote-controlled toy camera car and were able to make very intimate ground-level images. This gave a dignified insight into lion social behavior. The fragile car would morph into a rugged robot tank as the assignment continued”. (Photo by Michael Nichols/Sony World Photography Awards)




Maggie sat in front of her best friend Amy's house and smoked the morning after the assault, while Kayden and Amy's daughter Olivia, three, played in the window. A few days later, she decided to move to Alaska to be closer with her estranged husband and father of her children. Shane pled guilty to a count of domestic battery, and was given a nine month sentence. He was released in August 2013, five months later, on good behavior. (Photo by Sara Lewkowicz/Sony World Photography Awards)

Maggie sat in front of her best friend Amy's house and smoked the morning after the assault, while Kayden and Amy's daughter Olivia, three, played in the window. A few days later, she decided to move to Alaska to be closer with her estranged husband and father of her children. Shane pled guilty to a count of domestic battery, and was given a nine month sentence. He was released in August 2013, five months later, on good behavior. (Photo by Sara Lewkowicz/Sony World Photography Awards)




Portraiture category: Gamand’s winning series “Wet Dog” is a humorous series of portraits of dogs caught during their least favorite activity: bath time. Exposed at a vulnerable moment, the dogs try to communicate with the photographer with pleading eyes or angry looks. Fascinated by the relationship between dogs and humans, photographer Sophie Gamand captures these expressions in an attempt to better understand this unique interspecies bond. (Photo by Sophie Gamand/Sony World Photography Awards)

Portraiture category: Gamand’s winning series “Wet Dog” is a humorous series of portraits of dogs caught during their least favorite activity: bath time. Exposed at a vulnerable moment, the dogs try to communicate with the photographer with pleading eyes or angry looks. Fascinated by the relationship between dogs and humans, photographer Sophie Gamand captures these expressions in an attempt to better understand this unique interspecies bond. (Photo by Sophie Gamand/Sony World Photography Awards)




Please help: A dog looks at the camera with pleading eyes mid-bath. (Photo by Sophie Gamand/Sony World Photography Awards)

Please help: A dog looks at the camera with pleading eyes mid-bath. (Photo by Sophie Gamand/Sony World Photography Awards)




“One in Eight Hundred” by Mario Wezel, from Germany, is the winner of the “People” category. The title refers to the odds given to Martin and Karina at their prenatal screening before their daughter, Emmy, was born. The five-year-old from Denmark has Down's Syndrome. (Photo by Mario Wezel/Sony World Photography Awards)

“One in Eight Hundred” by Mario Wezel, from Germany, is the winner of the “People” category. The title refers to the odds given to Martin and Karina at their prenatal screening before their daughter, Emmy, was born. The five-year-old from Denmark has Down's Syndrome. (Photo by Mario Wezel/Sony World Photography Awards)




Landscape category: Greenberg’s stunning landscape images depicts a journey through the Israeli landscape, examining the relationship between the natural world and the man-made in a land that has been dramatically changed over the course of history. Each image is a singular peek into this journey – but as a series forms a unique point of view, a quiet, pictorial look over a land that is in constant conflict. (Photo by Roei Greenberg/Sony World Photography Awards)

Landscape category: Greenberg’s stunning landscape images depicts a journey through the Israeli landscape, examining the relationship between the natural world and the man-made in a land that has been dramatically changed over the course of history. Each image is a singular peek into this journey – but as a series forms a unique point of view, a quiet, pictorial look over a land that is in constant conflict. (Photo by Roei Greenberg/Sony World Photography Awards)




“Channel 4 Racing – The Original Extreme Sport” by Spencer Murphy, from the UK, won the “Campaign” category. (Photo by Spencer Murphy/Sony World Photography Awards)

“Channel 4 Racing – The Original Extreme Sport” by Spencer Murphy, from the UK, won the “Campaign” category. (Photo by Spencer Murphy/Sony World Photography Awards)




The photo series depicts jockeys post race, covered in mud and looking exhausted, showing the extremes the athletes pursue for their sport. (Photo by Spencer Murphy/Sony World Photography Awards)

The photo series depicts jockeys post race, covered in mud and looking exhausted, showing the extremes the athletes pursue for their sport. (Photo by Spencer Murphy/Sony World Photography Awards)




“Behind the Absence” by Myriam Meloni, won the 'Lifestyle” category. The series gives an insight into the 100,000 children in Moldova left behind by their parents who have emigrated to search for jobs. Here Iuana, 59, looks after her grandson – the son of her daughter Ana who has been working in a meat factory in Germany for three years. (Photo by Myriam Meloni/Sony World Photography Awards)

“Behind the Absence” by Myriam Meloni, won the 'Lifestyle” category. The series gives an insight into the 100,000 children in Moldova left behind by their parents who have emigrated to search for jobs. Here Iuana, 59, looks after her grandson – the son of her daughter Ana who has been working in a meat factory in Germany for three years. (Photo by Myriam Meloni/Sony World Photography Awards)




Moldova is the poorest country in Eastern Europe and has a generation of children growing up without their parents. They have gone in search of a job in the belief it will provide a better life for their families. But these children are now being raised by their grandparents or placed in ramshackle orphanges that were originally build to house orphans from the Second World War. (Photo by Myriam Meloni/Sony World Photography Awards)

Moldova is the poorest country in Eastern Europe and has a generation of children growing up without their parents. They have gone in search of a job in the belief it will provide a better life for their families. But these children are now being raised by their grandparents or placed in ramshackle orphanges that were originally build to house orphans from the Second World War. (Photo by Myriam Meloni/Sony World Photography Awards)




“Arts and Culture” winner: Vivana Peretti's images “Dancing Like A Woman” portrays young drag queens attending the National Bambuco Gay Pageant in Bogata, Colombia. During the contest, young drag queens challenge each other wearing traditional Colombian clothes and dancing the bambuco, a regional, folkloric characterized by the elegance of its movements and precious dresses. (Photo by Viviana Peretti/Sony World Photography Awards)

“Arts and Culture” winner: Vivana Peretti's images “Dancing Like A Woman” portrays young drag queens attending the National Bambuco Gay Pageant in Bogata, Colombia. During the contest, young drag queens challenge each other wearing traditional Colombian clothes and dancing the bambuco, a regional, folkloric characterized by the elegance of its movements and precious dresses. (Photo by Viviana Peretti/Sony World Photography Awards)




British photographer Guy Martin won the “Current Affairs” category for his photographs from protests in Istanbul, Turkey. The protests in the summer of 2013 against plans to turn Taksim Gezi Park erupted into riots. Police suppressed the demonstrations with tear gas and water which garnered international media attention. (Photo by Guy Martin/Sony World Photography Awards)

British photographer Guy Martin won the “Current Affairs” category for his photographs from protests in Istanbul, Turkey. The protests in the summer of 2013 against plans to turn Taksim Gezi Park erupted into riots. Police suppressed the demonstrations with tear gas and water which garnered international media attention. (Photo by Guy Martin/Sony World Photography Awards)




Ricard Teles, from Brazil, won the “Travel” category with his photo series “Road of Grains”. The images follow the everyday lives of workers in the food production and distribution industry in Brazil. (Photo by Ricardo Teles/Sony World Photography Awards)

Ricard Teles, from Brazil, won the “Travel” category with his photo series “Road of Grains”. The images follow the everyday lives of workers in the food production and distribution industry in Brazil. (Photo by Ricardo Teles/Sony World Photography Awards)




Travel category: Teles won the Travel category with his striking series Road of Grains. Through stunning images Road of Grains give us an insight to the everyday life of people working with food production and distribution in Brazil. While food production continue to be a global challenge, estimations from 2013 show that approximately 12% of the total production of soybeans, the equivalent of ten million tons, was lost on the roads in Brazil as result of bad infrastructure. (Photo by Ricardo Teles/Sony World Photography Awards)

Travel category: Teles won the Travel category with his striking series Road of Grains. Through stunning images Road of Grains give us an insight to the everyday life of people working with food production and distribution in Brazil. While food production continue to be a global challenge, estimations from 2013 show that approximately 12% of the total production of soybeans, the equivalent of ten million tons, was lost on the roads in Brazil as result of bad infrastructure. Through bold colours and brilliant story telling, Teles photo reportage illustrates the challenges the people involved face on a day-to-day basis. (Photo by Ricardo Teles/Sony World Photography Awards)




Ludovic Maillard, from France, won the “Architecture” category. (Photo by Ludovic Maillard/Sony World Photography Awards)

Ludovic Maillard, from France, won the “Architecture” category. (Photo by Ludovic Maillard/Sony World Photography Awards)




Architecture category: Millards’s stunning black and white series Typology of concrete plays homage to the “Boulevard Périphérique de Paris”, Paris monumental ring road, which last year celebrated its 40th anniversary. With his camera Millard explored the ring road, and through his images we get to know the hidden spaces and original shapes often overlooked by pedestrians rushing by. His black and white images are a beautiful testimony to the city landmark the “Boulevard Périphérique de Paris” has become. (Photo by Ludovic Maillard/Sony World Photography Awards)

Architecture category: Millards’s stunning black and white series Typology of concrete plays homage to the “Boulevard Périphérique de Paris”, Paris monumental ring road, which last year celebrated its 40th anniversary. With his camera Millard explored the ring road, and through his images we get to know the hidden spaces and original shapes often overlooked by pedestrians rushing by. His black and white images are a beautiful testimony to the city landmark the “Boulevard Périphérique de Paris” has become. (Photo by Ludovic Maillard/Sony World Photography Awards)




Still Life category: Harman’s winning story Garden Stories, Hidden Labours is a beautiful series of unintended or “accidental” still lives. The work seeks to make visible the unseen and often unsung work of the gardeners, by revealing small signs of the day-to-day such as the tending of plants; their protection from insects, disease and weather; the nurturing of seedlings and tender plants in the glasshouses. (Photo by Amanda Harman/Sony World Photography Awards)

Still Life category: Harman’s winning story Garden Stories, Hidden Labours is a beautiful series of unintended or “accidental” still lives. The work seeks to make visible the unseen and often unsung work of the gardeners, by revealing small signs of the day-to-day such as the tending of plants; their protection from insects, disease and weather; the nurturing of seedlings and tender plants in the glasshouses; the harvesting, drying and storing of crops, and the gathering of flowers from the garden, to be arranged and placed in the house. (Photo by Amanda Harman/Sony World Photography Awards)
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