So amidst all the other world shaking stories, the Sony World Photography Awards have been announced...
I especially love Hsien-Pang Hsieh's work for his image titled Hurry, featuring a street performer who appears to be walking quickly but is in fact standing still. Fits right into my interest of Still/Moving and the relationship of still photography to movement and dance. Hsien-Pang Hsieh, from Taiwan, won The Youth Photographer of the Year award.
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-52934802
And Portraiture winner Cesar Dezfuli's work in photographing people rescued from a rubber boat drifting in the Mediterranean Sea for the series Passengers.
"The boat had departed some hours prior from Libya. In an attempt to give a human face to this event, I photographed the passengers minutes after their rescue. Their faces, their looks, the marks on their bodies all reflected the mood and physical state they were in after a journey that had already marked their lives forever."
Also Angel Lopez Soto's depiction of Senegalese Wrestlers, which won her the Sport category award.
Many of the category winners told stories of a vitally important current issues. In particular Pablo Albarenga, a documentary photographer from Uruguay, who won Photographer of the Year for his series Seeds of Resistance, which highlights the plight of indigenous communities in Latin America, who are fighting to preserve their territories from agri-business and deforestation. Stunning work combining portraiture and aerial photography in fine detail and brilliant colour.
