National Award winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2021 have been revealed, after contestants from over 200 territories entered and were drawn from a shortlist of 51 countries in Sony’s National Awards programme.
Any photographer from a participating country that entered an image in the open contest in any category was automatically entered. Judges had to sift through 165,000 images before choosing a single winning image from each country.
The Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year 2021 and winners of the open, youth and student contests, will be announced on April 15.
Picutred top is a dramatic scene by Russian Federation winner, Evgeniy Ivanov; left an equally dramatic but completely different composition by Taiwanese regional winner, Hui Pin Lai; a beautiful scene of fishermen in Myanmar by regional winner, Min Min Zaw.
The full list of winners includes: Argentina -Dante MogniAustria -Michaela SteinerBangladesh -Sabbir HossenBulgaria –Eniz KaradzhaCambodia -Sean ChannalChile -Ramón RodriguezCroatia –Tomislav VeicCzech Republic -Zdeněk VošickýDenmark -Sussi Charlotte AlmindeEstonia -Höije NuuterEgypt -Abdelhamid Fawzy TahounFinland -Matti VirtanenFrance -Lauriane BieberGermany -Astrid Susanna SchulzGreece -Thoedoros ApeiranthitisHungary -Krisztina KovácsIceland -Viktor Einar VilhelmssonItaly -Davide GiannettiIndia -Shreejit BorthakurIndonesia -Hardijanto BudymanJapan -Yukihito Ono, WinnerJapan -Hiroki Nose, 2nd PlaceJapan -S. Muramatsu, 3rd PlaceKuwait -Naser AlomariLatvia -Janis PalulisLithuania -Simas BernotasMalaysia -Yoganathan YokeMexico -Brian Mena LaureanoMyanmar –Min Min ZawNepal –Prajwal BattaraiNew Zealand -Murray ChantNorway -Emil Wieringa HildebrandPhilippines -Donell GumiranPoland -Kamila J. GrussQatar -Ila Al-MushaifriRomania -Cristina VenedictRussian Federation -Evgeniy IvanovSaudi Arabia -Naif AlbugamiSerbia -Vladimir ZivojinovicSingapore -Wong Chek PohSlovenia -Aljaž ŽnidaršičSouth Africa -Azelda OlivierSri Lanka-Isira SooriyaarachchiSweden -Shai ApeloigSwitzerland -Raphael BarbarTaiwan -Hui Pin Lai, WinnerTaiwan -Chia Jung Chou, 2nd PlaceTaiwan -Yu Liang Chueh, 3rd PlaceThailand -Saowanee SuntararakTurkey -Mehmet Aslan, WinnerUnited Arab Emirates -Mireia VilaplanaUnited States -Patrick MuellerVietnam -Tuan Nguyen Quang
