Emma Lewis is one of the five judges in the Professional Competition of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards, Assistant Curator at Tate and a writer specialising in photography.

Yagazie Emezi is a documentary photographer from Aba, Nigeria, but mainly living in Lagos when she can. Emezi started her photography journey in early 2015 and since then it has been a never-ending series of challenges, growth and dare, and enlightenment, she says.

Stephanie Gengotti comes from a family of travellers. Since she was very little she had the chance to follow her parents in their journeys.

Silvia Bigi has always loved photography. Her father was very into photography when she was a young child and therefore she grew up with a camera around her neck.

We take a look at the winners ofTHE FENCE,a large-scale traveling photography exhibition reaching over 8 million visitors annually through open-air exhibitions in 8 cities across North America.

Bertus Hanekom is a self-taught landscape photographer from beautiful South Africa. He enjoys capturing artistic images of nature, with a fondness for long exposures and the ocean.