Sony announces its World Photography Awards 2012

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Sony announces its World Photography Awards 2012

The World Photography Organization (WPO) has announced the Honorary Jury for the Sony World Photography Awards 2012. It comprises of experts from across the world of photography to judge the Professional Competition which invites entries from the world's leading photographers and serious enthusiasts.

Chaired by esteemed writer and photo critic, Susan Bright, the jury includes the Director of Photography for the Sunday Times Magazine and the Photography Director of Wallpaper as well as leaders in photography and curators from some of the world's leading photography institutions. All jury members are selected from the World Photographic Academy.

Following the category selection, the judges come together under Susan Bright's direction, to select one overall winner, who will be named L'Iris d'Or/ Sony World Photography Awards Professional Photographer of the Year at a ceremony in London on 26th April, 2012.

"Judging artwork can be a challenging experience, and one that may often appear arbitrary and subjective to an outside audience. However, I can confirm it is a rigorous and thoughtful process. I am looking forward to the spending time looking, thinking, arguing and ultimately selecting photographs for next year awards because of the esteemed group of veteran colleagues on my panel this year. Experiencing such a number of photographs is also an exciting opportunity to get a glimpse into the current concerns and strategies used by contemporary photographers and become fully immersed in work that we may not otherwise have a chance to see," said Susan Bright, Writer and Photo Critic.

The other competitions within the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards are Open, Student Focus, Youth, 3D and Moving Image. The Open Competition, which is open to all photographers, is to be judged by WPO's pre-selection committee, and from the shortlist, the winners for each Open category will be decided by a special committee including the Chair of the professional Honorary Jury, and representatives from Sony and the WPO.

The Student Focus Jury is chosen from selected Academy members, Carl de Keyser (Belgium) Photographer and Co-Founder & Director of the XYZ Photography Gallery; Sarah Toplis (UK) Commissioning Editor for Young Tate and Virginia Morrison (US) Executive Director of the Society for Photographic Education.

The 3D Award and Youth Competition is to be judged by WPO and Sony's digital imaging team. The Moving Image Award will be judged by a specialized jury, knowledgeable in both photography and video, which will be announced online later this month.

Entries for the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards close on 4th January, 2012.


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