Thursday, 9 May 2013

Last few days - Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition

It's the last few days of the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, ending 12 May.

Sections include:
Open
Youth
Student Focus
Professional
3D
Outstanding Contribution to Photography


My favourite photos include:
Hudson Garcia, Brazil 3rd place Nature & Wildlife
Hudson Garcia, Brazil 3rd place Nature & Wildlife
Ernest Goh, Singapore - Cocks!

Saturo Kondo, Japan
These flowers were stunning and seemed more like watercolours than photographs. 
"A flower is not a flower.
It's like a woman.
A flower's life is transient,
but beautiful."


Nenad Sajic, Croatia
Portrait of Matterhorn

Andrea Gjestvang, Norway
One Day in History, Utoya, 2011

Portraits of children and youths who survived the massacre on the island of Utoeya outside Oslo (NO) on 22nd of July 2011. Words cannot describe the atmosphere these photographs created in the small rooms of the West Wing.

"€œI bear my scares with dignity, because I got them standing for something I believe in."
The competition is free to enter and welcomes submissions from international photographers of all levels and expertise. This year's competition received 122,665 entries from 170 countries.

The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards

The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards have been given annually since 1985 and have since been the UK’s leading prizes for books on photography and the moving image. Winning books have been those which make original and lasting educational, professional, historical and cultural contributions to the field. 


£7.50/£5 concessions


Exhibition Hours:
Mondays 10am to 6pm
Tuesdays 10 am to 6pm
Wednesdays 10am to 9pm
Thursdays 10 am to 9pm
Fridays 10am to 6pm
Saturdays 10am - 7pm
Sundays 10am to 7pm

Venue Location:
Somerset House / West Wing
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA

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