You’ll love the stunning winners of Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Open competition

Mar 14, 2023 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment

The World Photography Organisation has announced the category winners and shortlists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Open competition. This contest recognizes the best single shots from 2022, and it’s a truly marvelous collection of images from all over the world.

We’ll have to wait a bit more for the overall winner of the contest. But we bring you a winner of each of the ten categories, plus a selection of shortlisted images. And to be honest, there are so many exquisite images, that I had a really hard time narrowing down the selection.

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Nearly half a million images from over 200 countries and territories were submitted to the Sony World Photography Awards 2023. Out of those, over 200,000 were entered into the Open competition. Can you imagine the tough choices the judges had to make choosing the winner? But an even tougher choice is yet to be made, as the category winners will go on to compete for the Open Photographer of the Year title and a $5,000 USD prize.

The overall winner of the Open competition will be announced at the Awards’ ceremony in London on April 13, 2023. Selected winning and shortlisted images will be shown as part of the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House in London from 14 April-1 May 2023. You can find out more on Sony World Photography Awards website, and now I leave you to enjoy the photos from this year’s selection.

Category winners

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open horse

© Zhenhuan Zhou/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Motion category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open lifestyle

© Azim Khan Ronnie/Sony World Photography Awards 2023: Lifestyle category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open srteet

© Andreas Mikonauschke/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Street Photography category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open portrait

© Sukhy Hullait/ Sony World Photography Awards 2023, Portraiture category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 openlandscape

© Giorgos Rousopoulos/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Landscape category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open flowers

© Mieke Douglas/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Object category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open travel

© Max Vere-Hodge/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Travel category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open architecture

© Mark Benham/Sony World Photography Awards 2023: Architecture category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open wildlife

© Dinorah Graue Obscura/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open creative

© Boris Eldagsen/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Creative category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Open contest, shortlists selection

© Martin Rickett/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Motion category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open Natural World & Wildlife

© Marcio Esteves Cabral/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category

© Kathryn Mussallem/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Lifestyle category

© Jose Manuel Grandio/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category

© Jordi Coy/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Landscape category

© Jean Veron/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Lifestyle category

© İsmail Serhat Şahin’/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Travel category

© Fabian Pfeifhofer/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Travel category

© Bing Li/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Landscape category

© Alex Pansier/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category

© Adrian Pearce/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Lifestyle category

© Vince Burton/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category

© Takahiro Toh/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Street Photography category

© Subrata Dey/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category

© Stan De Zoysa/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Street Photography category

© Kjell Vikestad/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Architecture category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open sailing

© Zacarías Abad Torres/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Motion category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open portrait shortlist

© Gemma Sains/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Portraiture category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 portrait old man

© Glenn Homann/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Portraiture category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open puffin

© James Hunter/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Natural World & Wildlife category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open portrait

© Jonathan Damslund/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Portraiture catefory

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open horse

© Kinga Wnuk/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Creative category

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 open Creative portrait

© Mariola Glajcar/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Creative category

© Ninoshka Pais/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Lifestyle category

© Roberto Pavić/Sony World Photography Awards 2023; Landscape category

About Dunja Djudjic

Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.

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Dave Williams is an accomplished travel photographer, writer, and best-selling author from the UK. He is also a photography educator and published Aurora expert. Dave has traveled extensively in recent years, capturing stunning images from around the world in a modified van. His work has been featured in various publications and he has worked with notable brands such as Skoda, EE, Boeing, Huawei, Microsoft, BMW, Conde Nast, Electronic Arts, Discovery, BBC, The Guardian, ESPN, NBC, and many others.