The Sony World Photography Awards now includes more competitions and awards than ever before, with each one appealing to photographers of different levels:
- Open Competition - for amateurs and enthusiasts
- Professional Competition - for serious photographers with a true passion for the job
- Youth Award - for anyone under the age of 20
- Moving Image Award - for those experimenting with moving image narrative formats
- Student Focus - for higher education photography students aged 18 - 28
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Sony World Photography Awards 2012 - Open Competition
Are you an amateur photographer and a keen photography enthusiast, with an eye for capturing that perfect moment? Whatever your photographic passion may be, enter the Open Competition for your chance to win $5,000 and a trip to London to pick up your prize at the Sony World Photography Awards 2012 gala ceremony!
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Sony World Photography Awards 2012 - Professional Competition
Are you a serious photographer with a true passion for the job? Do you understand the craft of taking pictures, documenting a story, conceptualising an idea, capturing emotions and evoking a response from those who view the finished product? Submit your best work for the chance to become the next Sony World Photography Awards Professional Photographer of the Year and win our most coveted prize, the L’Iris d’Or, along with prize money of $25,000.
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We are searching for the next generation of talented young photographers in this new competition, open to anyone under the age of 20. Whether you are studying photography in school or college, or just have a passion for taking photographs of your daily life, enter this competition for the chance to become the first ever Sony World Photography Awards Youth Award Winner.Sony World Photography Awards 2012 - Youth Award
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Sony World Photography Awards 2012 - Moving Image Award
The Moving Image Award calls for work combining still and moving images with sound, drawing on the distinctive strengths of each form. We want entrants to explore how photography can evolve into new forms of visual narratives using audio, music, video, animation and graphics.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2012 - 3D Award
If you are experimenting with 3D photography and video, why not enter our first global 3D photography competition! Anyone can enter this dynamic competition and be a part of this image revolution.
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Student Focus 2012 Competition
Calling all photography students! Participate in the 2012 Student Focus competition, for your chance to win Sony camera equipment for yourself and your university, as well as a trip to our World Photography Festival in London. The brief this year is to capture a 'fleeting moment'.
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Facebook Monthly Photo Competition - July 2011
Enter our Facebook Monthly Photo Competition for your chance to win prizes for sharing in WPO's passion for photography. Each month we give you a different theme, ask you to take an original and inspiring photo that fits the theme, then enter it! The theme for July is 'Nature and Wildlife', one of our favourite categories in the Sony World Photography Awards Professional and Open Competitions.
