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Sony World Photography Awards :: Cannes 2009
Giuilo Di Sturco, winner: Contemporary Issues category
Bihar Aftermath
Mother and daughter in a refugee camp run by Medecins Sans Frontieres.
Massimo Mastrorillo, third place: Contemporary Issues category
"Where man lost against the environment."
Wojciech Grzedzinski, winner: Current Affairs category
Georgia 08/2008
Bodies of victims killed in a Russian air strike on civilian buildings in Gori,
about 70 kilometers north of Tbilisi, laying in the back of a pickup truck.
Dominic Nahr, second place: Current Affairs category
Four Congolese government soldiers take shelter from the rain on the frontline about five
kilometers north of Kibati. CNDP rebels and government soldiers are only separated
by less then half a kilometer, and fighting flares up regularly.
The 2008 Nord-Kivu fighting in DR Congo has displaced 250,000 civilians, as they fled the
frontlines of the war. No one is safe and the walk up and down the main road of this province,
in search of safety, is what life has become for many of the soldiers and all of the civilians.
Michael van den Bogaard, winner: Architecture category
Shanghai
Shanghai is about light. The pictures have been taken at night, where artificial lighting
sets up the composition. They capture the transition from darkness to light to make a
ground-breaking representation of the way a mega-city transforms. As if observing
from an auditorium, the viewer remains in the dark, viewing the scene from the
darkest perspective. In this way the photographer directs attention to the
stage scenery and lets the audience search for an image of Shanghai.
Amit Madheshiya, winner: Arts & Entertainment category
Family Business
Some of those enamoured by the first grainy cinema images had brought a projector in 1940s
Bombay. As the first images whirred to life on a taut white cloth raised in clearings in villages, a
novel cultural experience presented itself before audiences who sat agape, witnessing magic.
Gradually, old projectors found themselves carted off into dusty villages by maverick lawyers,
doctors and producers who formed the first touring cinema companies. Till today, the
same projectors - though modified and much Indianized - have been handed down
like heirlooms across generations spanning more than six decades.
Dustin Humphrey, winner: Advertising category
Uba Skuba Canoe
"This campaign for surf-clothing was one of the more complicated projects I have yet to
work on, as the subject is photographed both above and below the sea level. Through
trial and error, I tried different lenses and had a special 'water housing' made
with a larger dome on the front, so I was able to achieve this effect."
Dylan Collard, third place: Advertising category
Is The Food You Love Giving You Heart Disease?
Shown as billboards in Red Square, the series was aimed at Russian men who eat
fatty meats, sauces and starchy foods, resulting in heart related illnesses later in life.
Julian Abram Wainwright, winner: Sport category
Men's 10m Platform Diving
Beijing Olympics 2008
Diving is a very photogenic sport. In a captured frame you can see a body of tensed muscle,
a contorted face and thousands of waterdrops flying off a spinning body or mane of hair.
Sometimes, just as he leaps from the platform, the diver appears to hang in mid-air
like a dancer - a frozen moment of calm before he plummets to the water below.
Li Fan, third place: Sport category
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games has inspired an increasing number of children
in west China's countryside to take part in various kinds of sports
activities using whatever facilities are available to them.
David Zimmerman, winner: Landscape category
Desert
The American southwestern desert environment is a total ecosystem that is extremely
fragile, easily scarred, and slowly healed. Its resources, including certain rare and
endangered species of wildlife, plants and fish, and numerous archaeological and
historic sites, are seriously threatened by air pollution, inadequate Federal
management authority and the pressures of increased (particularly
recreational) use, which are certain to intensify because of
the rapidly growing population of the region.
Elen Miroshkina, third place: Music category
Piano
Takaki Hashimoto, third place: Fashion category
Lycoris
Angelika Sher, third place: Conceptual & Constructed category
Thirteen
'Thirteen' was partly photographed in Lithuania and in Israel.
Hans de Vries, third place: Portraiture category
Portrait of Wouter
Wouter lived for years on the streets of Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
and who has since found a home in a house for elderly former
tramps with psychiatric and addiction-related backgrounds.
Vincent Foong, Amateur Sony World Photographer of the Year
Perfect Landing
This Lesser Adjutant (an endangered species) is executing the perfect landing on a disused
wooden stump. "I find it very peaceful to see birds interacting with the incoming tides, picking
food and feeding the young. I devote every morning to taking pictures of birds in their natural
habitat and have started to teach people, especially young children, to conserve and
respect nature and not to upset its delicate balance. I try to convey my feelings
in my pictures, as without these, they are just a recorded image."
Lisa Maree Williams, winner: Natural History category
Veterinarian nurse supports the neck of an injured bird at The Australian Wildlife Hospital,
the largest wildlife hospital in The World, in Beerwah on The Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Yannick Dixon, third place: Natural History category
There is something innately beautiful in the way starlings fly together, forming hypnotic
shapes and patterns as they cross the horizon above Blackpool's North Shore Beach.
Daichi Ano, Japan
Hui min Kuang, China
text & photograph selection courtesy of The Independent
photographs courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards
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