Finalists Sony World Photography Awards 2014 Bashny.Net

World Organization photographers announced the list of finalists Sony World Photography Awards 2014 - in one of the most prestigious contests in the world. This year, photographers from 166 countries submitted nearly 140,000 of their work, a record in the history of the competition. Of all the photographers included in the short list, along with the works of the winners will be exhibited from 1 to 18 May in London's cultural center of Somerset House.

Presenting your attention the finalists in the category of "freelance photographer" and "Professional».

Category "Free Photo - Travel": Mongolia. (© Simon Morris / UK / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)





Winners will be announced categories open March 18th. Won the category "Professional", as well as a special award "Photographer of the Year" will be announced at a ceremony in London on April 30.

Photo: "Smile: yellow guy." Boy during the celebration of the Indian festival of colors Holi. (© Anurag Kumar / India / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



All of these photos will go to Somerset House, London, the exhibition "2014 Sony World Photography Awards». Tickets on it is already available. Works of the winners will also be presented in the book "2014 Sony World Photography Awards».

Category: Nature and Animals - What you looking at? Cub orangutan in the arms of his mother. (© Chin Boon Leng / Singapore / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Category: Smile - "Dirty smile." (© Alpay Erdem / Turkey / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Category: Proportion of seconds - without a name. Emotional "breakthrough" of the bride on her way to the wedding ceremony. (© Yao Wang Chong / Taiwan / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Art and Culture: untitled photo. Hooke's festival. (© Vuk Adzic / Serbia / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)

People: Young people from the tribe of punishment, Omo, Ethiopia (shot with an infrared filter). (© Louise Porter / USA / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)

Travel: pilgrims and faithful to the Kumbh Mela - a major religious festival on the planet. (© Wolfgang Weinhardt / Germany / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Nature and animals: Zeybek (a reference to the Turkish folk dance). (© Hasan BagÌlar / Cyprus / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Dim lighting, Hail, even in dark times. (Samantha Fortenberry / USA / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Art and culture: beer festival in Munich. (© Li Hao / China / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



People: untitled. The miners in the gold mines in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. (© Guillermo Barquero / Costa Rica / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)

Landscape: untitled. Skiers in snowy Poland. (© Kacper Kowalski / Poland / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Business essential: the price of slavery. The collapse of Rana Plaza garment factory. (© KM Asad / Bangladesh / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Campaign: big cat, small cat - advertising campaign cat food "Whiskas". (© George Logan / UK / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Art and Culture: shine, baby. The project is "Shine, baby," explores the culture of girls in Australia as part of events such as beauty contests, especially for young people. (© Chloe Bartram / Australia / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Architecture: Historic gift. Temple Zhong - 13-storey pagoda - overlay historical images of the same place. (© Sungseok AHN / Republic of Korea / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Landscape: a series of photographs from the air. Iceland. (© Emmanuel Coupe-Kalomiris / Greece / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Landscape: cityscapes of Shanghai. (© Arjen Schmitz / Netherlands / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Business essential, what is lost? Huckster with a gun in the Naples area Forcella. (© Esposito Salvatore / Italy / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



Travel: Italy. (© Sharon Derhy / Italy / 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



People: Mother and son. (© Denis Dailleux // 2014 Sony World Photography Awards)



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