The best photos from 66 countries, according to the largest competition in the world
Sony World Photography Awards
Saudi Arabia, Khalid Alsabt.
The Sony World Photography Awards is the largest photo competition in the world. Now celebrating its 10th year, the awards program has received more than a million submissions since its inception.
One of the contest’s top honors is the National Award. For this particular award, photographers are judged against others from their country of origin, regardless of which of the 10 categories the photo was submitted to. This creates competition across various “open” categories, including portraits, architecture, nature, still life, and travel. Ultimately, the panel of judges must choose the best photo from each country, regardless of its subject matter.
There are 66 qualifying countries, and awards are given to first-, second-, and third-place winners.
Ahead, see the 66 first-place winners of this year’s National Awards. Captions include where the photographer is from — which is not necessarily where the photo was taken — along with their name.
Slovenia, Aleš Komovec
Indonesia, Fajar Kristianto
Portugal, Luís Godinho
Province Of China, Jim Chen Taiwan
Switzerland, Alessandra Meniconzi
Norway, Henning S. Pettersen
Malaysia, Jian Seng Soh
Thailand, Polpich Komson
Slovakia, Peter Svoboda
Mexico, Tania Franco Klein
Poland, Arek Rataj
Hong Kong, Chun Kin Tong, TOMY
Vietnam, Ngoc Mai Nguyen
India, Nikunj Rathod
Spain, Santos Moreno Villar
Colombia, Camilo Diaz
United States of American, Argus Paul Estabrook
Russian Federation, Alexander Vinogradov
Latvia, Katerina Annenkova
Netherlands, Ewa Cwikla
New Zealand, Miriam Strong
Greece, Constantinos Sofikitis
Republic Of Korea, Seung Jong Lee
Ecuador, Cesar Augusto Gaitan Cortez
Belgium, Katrijn Van Giel
Romania, Alex Andriesi
Panama, Jonatan Banista
Saudi Arabia, Khalid Alsabt
Egypt, Mohamed Roushdy Eldor
Kenya, Austin Odunga
Venezuela, Kala Madriz
Cambodia, Ly Min
Hungary, Edina Csoboth
Czech Republic, Simona Nalepkova
Chile, Francisco Ubilla
Germany, Ralph Gräf
Sweden, Andreas Hemb
Peru, Carloman Macidiano Céspedes Riojas
Australia, Evan George
France, Josselin Cornou
Italy, Salvatore Mazzeo
Estonia, Annela Samuel
Bangladesh, Mohammad Amir Hamja
Ukraine, Zani Arkadina
Qatar, Firos Syed
Canada, Harley Yang
Finland, Antti Hallakorpi
Myanmar, Kyaw Win Hlaing
Denmark, Lise Johansson
Philippines, Mark L. Vicente
Japan, Homare Hamada
Turkey, Emrah Karako
Pakistan, Shabir Mian
Ireland, Bernard Ward
Sri Lanka, Deveni Nishantha Manjula
United Kingdom, Tim Cornbill
Austria, Julian Walkner
Argentina, Jose Maria Perez Nuez
Croatia, Petar Sabol
Serbia, Jelena Jankovi
Lithuania, Tadas Kazakevicius
United Arab Emirates, Mustafa Jindi
Singapore, Lester Koh Meng Hua
Bulgaria, Ivan Miladinov
China, Jianguo Gong
Nepal, Shashanka Chitrakar
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