WPO News

All the latest News from WPO, including the Sony World Photography Awards, our Student Focus programme, the World Photography Festivals and other international WPO Events.

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  • Moving Image Award - People's Choice Winner

    Date
    28th Jul 2011
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    Congratulations to Lauren Pissochet, our 2011 Moving Image Award - People's Choice Winner in the Sony World Photography Awards.

    © Lauren Pissochet

  • New 3D Sony World Photography Awards competition launched by WPO

    Date
    1st Jul 2011
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    WPO has launched its first global 3D competition and awards for video and photography as part of the Sony World Photography Awards programme.

    3D

  • Sony World Photography Awards 2012 competitions now open!

    Date
    1st Jun 2011
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    We at WPO are pleased to announce that the Sony World Photography Awards 2012 competitions are now open for entries. With more competitions available to enter than ever before, we are excited to see the entries come flooding in over the next 6 months.

    © Chan Kwok Hung / 2011 Open Competition winner

  • 2011 Student Focus Winner

    Date
    1st May 2011
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    Congratulations to École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, France, who won the Student Focus Competition for the Sony World Photography Awards 2011. Their student Louis Boulet was chosen to represent the university and participated in a competition based on the brief 'Actions speak louder than words'.

    © Louis Boulet © Louis Lumière

  • Sony World Photography Awards 2011 - Winners Announced

    Date
    28th Apr 2011
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    Congratulations to Argentinean photographer Alejandro Chaskielberg, who has tonight, 27 April 2011, been announced as this year’s winner of the illustrious L’Iris D’Or, the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year. Over 105,000 images were entered into the 2011 competition from 162 countries.

    © Alejandro Chaskielberg courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2011

  • Great prizes to be won with iStockphoto, Xfm and the World Photography Festival

    Date
    12th Apr 2011
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    Want to rub shoulders in the spring sunshine with the world’s best photographers, win a top end camera and take your photography to the next level? iStockphoto’s giveaway on Xfm can make it happen, with a competition celebrating the World Photography Festival and iStockalypse in London this spring.

    Festival Image

  • BJP announced as Official Media Partner of the World Photography Festival in London

    Date
    28th Mar 2011
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    We at WPO are thrilled to announce an exciting partnership with the British Journal of Photography (BJP) who are the Official Media Partner of the World Photography Festival in London.

    BJP

  • Sony World Photography Awards 2011 - Open Competition category winners announced

    Date
    22nd Mar 2011
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    Ten extraordinary amateur photographers are today, Tuesday 22 March, announced as the Open competition category winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2011.

    © Hubert Januar / Sony World Photography Awards 2011 / Open Competition / Arts & Culture winner

  • Congratulations to the winners of our São Paulo Portrait Project

    Date
    20th Mar 2011
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    Three photographers who participated in our São Paulo Portrait Project workshop at the World Photography Festival in São Paulo have been announced as the winners of the workshop. Congratulations to 1st Place winner Carlos Negrini, 2nd Place winner Jennifer Akemi and 3rd place winner Alessio Ortu.

    São Paulo Portrait Project Winners receive their Sony prizes

  • New partnership launched with London Fashion Week: The Daily

    Date
    14th Mar 2011
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    We at WPO are pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with London Fashion Week: The Daily, in which they are an official UK partner of the Fashion category of the Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition.

    © Stephen Beadles / SWPA 2011 / Open Competition / Fashion Commended