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Take a look at this year’s winning images in the Sony World
Photography Awards 2024
By Lianne Kolirin, CNN
Updated:
6:06 PM EDT, Thu April 18, 2024
Source: CNN
A French has scooped the most prestigious prize at this year’s for a
documentary project about the sterilization of women in .
Juliette Pavy was named as the overall winner of the at a ceremony in
London on Thursday for her series entitled “Spiralkampagnen: Forced
Contraception and Unintended Sterilisation of Greenlandic Women.”
Now in its 17th year, the Sony World Photography Awards celebrates
powerful images that resonate with audiences around the world. Pavy’s
winning portfolio set out to chart the severe and lasting impact of the
Danish authorities’ involuntary birth control campaign in Greenland
in the 1960s and 1970s, which affected several thousand Inuit women,
some as young as 12.
Pavy, who received a cash prize of $25,000, was selected from the
winners of the competition’s 10 professional categories. Her
submission won the documentary category. Other professional categories
include sport, the environment and portraiture.
In a press release issued ahead of the event, Monica Allende, chair of
the 2024 jury, said of Pavy’s win: “The Sony World Photography
Awards jury lauded Juliette Pavy’s empathetic portrayal of her
subjects, capturing them in a manner that is both dignified and
profoundly intimate, thereby highlighting her exceptional talent.”
Liam Man, a landscape photographer from the UK, was announced as the
competition’s Open Photographer of the Year for his otherworldly shot
(pictured above) entitled “Moonrise Sprites over Storr.”
It depicts the Old Man of Storr rock formation on Scotland’s Isle of
Skye, taken late at night during a powerful blizzard.
A series about the landscape, wildlife and people of the Gila
Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico garnered American photographer
Kathleen Orlinsky the Sustainability prize. A regular contributor to
National Geographic and The New York Times, Orlinsky has spent the past
decade documenting the impact of the climate crisis.
Student photographer of the year went to Kayin Luys from Belgium, who
interpreted the brief — which was simply entitled “Home” — to
submit an intimate portrayal of his partner’s family.
Meanwhile, 15-year-old Daniel Murray’s photograph of a solitary
surfer on an empty beach in Cornwall, England earned him the youth
photographer of the year accolade.
Internationally acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado received the
Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize for his distinctive
black-and-white works, captured over his five-decade-long career. Forty
pictures taken by Salgado, who divides his time between his homeland of
Brazil and France, will be on show as part of an exhibition featuring
the work of the competition winners, finalists and others shortlisted
at London’s Somerset House this spring.
The show will also feature work by last year’s overall winner, Edgar
Martins from Portugal.
Last year’s competition attracted controversy when a German artist
for the creative open category after revealing that his entry was
generated by AI.
In its guidelines, the competition’s organizers state that entries
“may feature manipulation, but where Entries are manipulated, the
extent of which must be described in the image description section when
submitting.” Computer-generated images are not allowed, however.
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