{"id":771523,"date":"2026-02-18T01:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/771523\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:19:12","slug":"everyones-a-winner-sony-world-photography-awards-2026-open-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/771523\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone&#8217;s a winner: Sony World Photography Awards 2026 Open Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stunning examples of colour, texture, vibrancy and movement are key components among the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>To mark its 19th edition, the competition judge, Ruby Rees-Sheridan, Assistant Photography Curator, at Britain&#8217;s National Portrait Gallery, chose pictures taken in the past year across 10 categories: Architecture, Creative, Landscape, Lifestyle, Motion, Natural World &amp; Wildlife, Object, Portraiture, Street Photography and Travel. <\/p>\n<p>According to the organisers, each single shot was judged on its &#8220;power to pique curiosity, spark imagination, and reveal a wider narrative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than 430,000 thousand entries were received from over 200 countries. <\/p>\n<p>The Open Photographer of the Year will be revealed on 16 April at a gala ceremony in London, presented with a \u20ac4,000 cash prize and a range of Sony camera equipment. <\/p>\n<p>Check out the winners in each category:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Architecture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Creative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Landscape<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lifestyle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Motion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Natural World &amp; Wildlife<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Object<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Portraiture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Street Photography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Travel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A selection of winning and shortlisted images will be shown as part of the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House from 17 April &#8211; 4 May 2026, and will then travel to other locations.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stunning examples of colour, texture, vibrancy and movement are key components among the winners of the Sony World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,14010,4022,77,6968,36660,2249,341,16,15],"class_list":["post-771523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-awards","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibition","tag-immersive-tpl","tag-photography","tag-sony","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116089006791607722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}