Maria Kokunova, 1st Place Discovery, 2020 Sony World Photography Awards

Maria Kokunova has deliberately restricted social contact and limited her media consumption so her whole life is bound up in her home, children and art practice, to create what she describes as her 'personal cave'.

Dione Roach - Creative - 2020 Sony World Photography Awards

Kill Me With an Overdose of Kindness is the result of several years collecting snapshots and screengrabs from online posts, chats, Skype and WhatsApp calls.

Florian Ruiz - Landscape - 2020 Sony World Photography Awards

Lop Nor is a former salt lake, now largely dried-up, located in Xinjiang province in northwest China.

Álvaro Laiz - Environment - 2020 Sony World Photography Awards

The Chukchi have lived along the Bering coasts for thousands of years.

Denis Rouvre - Portraiture - 2020 Sony World Photography Awards

"Unsung Heroes is a project about violence against women around the world. In 2019

Luca Locatelli - Environment - 2020 Sony World Photography Awards

By 2050 our planet will be home to as many as ten billion people. If increases in agricultural yield are not achieved, a billion or more people could face starvation.

Elena Helfrecht - Still Life - 2020 Sony World Photography Awards

Plexus is a photographic case study that uses Elena's family home and archival material to investigate her ancestors' history.

Lucas Barioulet - Sport - 2020 Sony World Photography Awards

The recently founded Mauritanian women's national football team played its first international match against Djibouti last summer and was defeated 3-1.

Winners announcement video: Sony World Photography Awards 2021

For the first time in the Sony World Photography Awards 14-year history we’re revealing the results via a very special, exclusive winners announcement video!

A Year in Photos from Sony World Photography Awards 2021

Presented by British art historian Jacky Klein and entertainer Nish Kumar, A Year in Photos from the Sony World Photography Awards 2021 celebrates the work of the top winners in one of the world’s biggest photography competitions
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