Sony World Photography Awards 2010 winners announced

The 12 professional winners spanned categories as diverse as fashion, architecture, current affairs and sport and were revealed alongside the Sony World Photography Awards Amateur Photographer of the Year as part of the World Photography Festival.

Chosen by the 2010 Honorary Judging Committee, comprising 12 World Photographic Academy members, the professional category winners are:

Photojournalism and Documentary

• Walter Astrada (Argentina) for Current Affairs

• Scott Barbour (New Zealand) for Sport

• Tommaso Ausili (Italy) for Contemporary Issues

• Paolo Pellegrin (Italy) for Arts and Entertainment

Commercial

• Martin Brent (United Kingdom) for Advertising

• David Handley (United Kingdom) for Fashion

• Mohammad Golchin (Iran) for Music

Fine Art

• Philipp Lohöefener (Germany)for Architecture

• Tommaso Bonaventura (Italy) for Portraiture

• Renhui Zhao (Singapore) for Conceptual and Constructed

• Pere Pascual (Spain) for Natural History

• Peter Franck (Germany) for Landscape

On behalf of the Honorary Judging Committee Aidan Sullivan commented, “It has been an honour to be part of the judging of this years awards. Being able to view the remarkable work and spend time with such eminent colleagues was a real delight.The judging process was one of both pleasure, in seeing such a high calibre of work, and of pain in that the standard made reaching our decisions difficult and I would like to congratulate all of the winners across all of the categories.”

The prestigious L’Iris d’Or/Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year award was awarded to Tommaso Ausili.  The Italian photographer’s evocative series of photographs in the Cotemporary Issues category, entitled “The Hidden Death”, is an insightful depiction of an assembly line at an abattoir. Ausili was awarded a $25,000 cash prize plus Sony digital SLR camera equipment and he joins previous L’Iris d’Or winners David Zimmerman and Vanessa Winship as a member of the World Photographic Academy.