Best images from Sony World Photography Awards 2021 unveiled

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A photo of a woman surrounded by drying fish in Vietnam and another showing lightning over a lavender field in Spain are among the 10 category winners at the Sony World Photography Awards 2021 Open Competition, announced Thursday.

The annual open competition, organized by the World Photography Organization, selects “the best single images” from categories such as travel, architecture and street photography.

Vietnamese photographer Khanh Phan won the travel category for the depiction of a drying fish, taken at the Long Hai Fish Market in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vietnam.

Spanish photographer Juan López Ruiz won the landscape category for capturing the moment when lightning strikes over a lavender field, with a lonely tree in the center.

Electric storm over a lonely tree in the lavender fields of Brihuega, Guadalajara, Spain.

Spanish photographer Juan López Ruiz won the landscape category for this photo. Credit: Juan López Ruiz / Sony World Photography Awards 2021

German photographer Klaus Lenzen won the architecture category for his photo of a staircase in the Hyatt hotel in Düsseldorf that looks like they are floating in space.

And F. Dilek Uyar of Turkey was named the winner of the street photography category for a photo of a municipal official in Ankara, Turkey, disinfecting a train platform.

Winners in the other six categories are as follows: Tamary Kudita, Zimbabwe, in the creative category; Mariano Belmar Torrecilla, Spain, lifestyle; Marijo Maduna, Croatia, motion; Cristo Pihlamäe, Estonia, natural world and wildlife; Kata Zih, Hungary, object; and Lyudmila Sabanina, Russian Federation, portraits.

A woman dries containers of fish at Long Hai fish market in Vung Tau province, Vietnam. Thousands of trays of scad are dried on roofs and on construction sites by hundreds of workers. I came on a photo tour to Long Hai and was blown away by the scale of the fishing village.

Vietnamese photographer Khanh Phan won the travel category for this photo. Credit: Khanh Phan / Sony World Photography Awards 2021

The winners of the 10 categories are now eligible for the Overall Title and a prize of $ 5,000. They also receive a selection of Sony digital imaging equipment. The overall winner of the Open competition will be announced on April 15th.

In addition to the category winners, more than 100 photographers were shortlisted for the competition. The winning and shortlisted work will be showcased in a virtual exhibition on the World Photography Organization website.

The 2021 competition was judged by Gastón Deleau, director of the FOLA gallery (Fototeca Latinoamericana – the Latin American Photo Library) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Browse the gallery above to see the 10 category winners in the Sony World Photography Awards Open competition.

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