World Photography Organization belum lama ini mengumumkan daftar foto kompetisi Sony World Photography 2014. Kontes tahun ini telah menerima lebih dari 140.000 peserta dari 166 negara. Para juri akan mengumkan pemenang pada akhir bulan Maret dan April tahun ini di Somerset House, London.
Kompetisi ini membuka kesempatan bagi para fotografer profesional maupun amatir dengan membagi dalam beberapa tema. Dibagi dalam tiga kelompok, yaitu Professional, Open dan Youth. Dari ketiga kelompok tersebut foto kemudian akan dikategorisasikan sesuai dengan tema foto.
Terdapat 14 kategori pada kelompok foto Professional dan sepuluh kategori pada bagian Open yang meliputi: Achitecture, Conceptual, Current Affairs, Nature and Wildlife, Lifestyle, People, Sport dan Travel. Untuk fotografer pemula kelompok Youth, foto dikategorisasikan dalam Culture, Environment dan Portrait.
Tahun ini adalah rekor selama diselenggarakannya kompetisi tahunan Sony World Photography Awards, sebanyak 139.544 foto dari 166 negara bersaing untuk memperebutkan hadiah utama. Berikut ini adalah ringkasan foto-foto mengagumkan dari kompetisi Sony World Photography 2014.
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2014 Sony World Photography Awards
A baby Orangutan peeking out from his mother’s embrace. © Chin Boon Leng, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
Homebound. © Ata Mohammad Adnan, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
© Samantha Fortenberry, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
In July each year, this heart-pounding scene of wildebeests migration repeats itself in Kenya. © Bonnie Cheung, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
Aerial image of river delta in Iceland. © Emmanuel Coupe, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
Pilgrims and devotees cross pontoon bridges at the Maha Kumbh Mela – the largest spiritual gathering on the planet, held every 12 years in India. © Wolfgang Weinhardt, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
An overhead view, from the skies above Poland. © Kacper Kowalski, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
Interior of an abandoned cooling tower. © Jan Stel, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
China, Jiangyin, Jiangsu. Rows of identical houses with a playground seen in the middle in the city of Jiangyin. © Kacper Kowalski, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
A muddy face from the mud bath, going into the lake. © Alpay Erdem, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
The knight and his steed, a tropical capture in Costa Rica. © Nicolas Reusens, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
Disaster Zone. © Alison Crea, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
© YongSheng Zheng, China, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, Sport subcategory
That’s dance. © Hasan Baglar, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards
© Anna Vadász, Hungary, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, Environment subcategory
Lightsnake. © Holger Schmidtke, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards
© Iveta Vaivode, Latvia,2014 Sony World Photography Awards, Lifestyle subcategory
© George Logan, UK, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, Campaign subcategory
© Laura Schmid, South Africa, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, Portraits subcategory
© Anastasia Zhetvina, Russia, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, Culture subcategory