Announcing the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 is getting closer, but it’s still more than a month away. However, the World Photography Organisation shares brilliant shortlists and winners of its other contests. And today, we get to see the finalists and shortlists of the Professional competition.
Among my favorite finalists is an image of surreal patterns and textures that mobula rays create during their annual migration. But there are plenty more amazing images in the selection, so let’s check out some of them and enjoy them together.
[Related reading: Sony World Photography Awards shares stunning Student and Youth shortlists for 2023]
The Sony World Photography Awards’ Professional competition is now in its 16th year. It is made to reward exceptional series of work both for technical skill and an original approach to storytelling. In fact, the winner of Photographer of the Year 2023 is chosen from this selection every year, and we’ll learn who it is on 13 April 2023.
This year, over 415,000 images were submitted to the Sony World Photography Awards, and over 180,000 were entered into the Professional competition. If that sounds like a lot, it sure is – it’s the highest number of entries on record. The contest has announced three finalists and projects per category, but that’s many photos, so we’ll make a selection for the sake of this article. You can check out all of them on the contest’s website, and see them at the Sony World Photography Awards at Somerset House from 14 April to 1 May 2023.
- © Tadas Kazakevicius, Lithuania, Shortlist, Professional competition, Portfolio, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
- © Tadas Kazakevicius, Lithuania, Shortlist, Professional competition, Portfolio, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
- © Colin Delfosse, Belgium, Shortlist, Professional competition, Portraiture, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
- © Colin Delfosse, Belgium, Shortlist, Professional competition, Portraiture, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
- © Toby Binder, Germany, Shortlist, Professional competition, Portraiture, Sony World Photography Awards 2023
- © Toby Binder, Germany, Shortlist, Professional competition, Portraiture, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Martin Broen, United States, Shortlist, Professional competition, Wildlife & Nature, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Masahiro Fujita, Japan, Shortlist, Professional competition, Wildlife & Nature, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Julia Christe, Germany, Shortlist, Professional competition, Wildlife & Nature, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Zhu Zhu, Canada, Shortlist, Professional competition, Wildlife & Nature, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Cesar Dezfuli, Spain, Shortlist, Professional competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© George Steinmetz, United States, Shortlist, Professional competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Alessandro Mallamaci, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Jae In Lee, Korea, Republic Of, Shortlist, Professional competition, Portraiture, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Sasha Maslov, Ukraine, Shortlist, Professional competition, Portraiture, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Emily Steinberger, United States, Shortlist, Professional competition, Creative, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Fatma Fahmy, Egypt, Shortlist, Professional competition, Environment, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Simone Tramonte, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Environment, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Bruno Zanzottera, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Environment, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Lasse Branding, Germany, Shortlist, Professional competition, Environment, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Emin Sansar, Turkey, Shortlist, Professional competition, Documentary Projects, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Mads Nissen, Denmark, Shortlist, Professional competition, Documentary Projects, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Frederick Olivera Gonzales, Peru, Shortlist, Professional competition, Documentary Projects, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Yoese Mariam, Indonesia, Shortlist, Professional competition, Documentary Projects, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Yoese Mariam, Indonesia, Shortlist, Professional competition, Documentary Projects, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Pavlo Dorohoi, Ukraine, Shortlist, Professional competition, Architecture & Design, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Johanna Marcela Garavito Morales, Colombia, Shortlist, Professional competition, Architecture & Design, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

© Nicola Zolin, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Sport, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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