Seven British photographers selected for their powerful series at the Sony World Photography Awards 2019

The World Photography Organization today unveiled the photographers selected for the professional competitions and students of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019.

The selection includes seven British photographers who are behind some of the world's best works published in 2018. All selected series will be exhibited at an exhibition at Somerset House in London from April 18 to May 6, 2019.

Being selected is important because the awards offer photographers an unprecedented opportunity to present their art to an international audience and present a dynamic and diverse overview of photography today. All of the selected professional photographers will compete to win their category and will be named the year 's photographer, revealed on April 17th.

The list of professionals includes breathtaking series selected from 10 different categories. The six British photographers selected are recognized in three categories.

British photographers excelled in the Landscape category, with four photographers on the short list. The Edinburgh-based artist, Kieran Dodds, was selected for his Hierotopia series, which explores the tiny islets of protected forests surrounding churches in Ethiopia, where agriculture has resulted in significant deforestation.

The artist and academic artist based in West Yorkshire, Yang Wang Preston, was selected for his series South of the Colored Clouds, which describes a landscape of a "world of ecological recovery" From another world in the Haidong Development Zone, Yunnan Province. In this series, Preston studies the environmental impact of transforming a rural area into an international leisure city and its dramatic effect on the landscape.

Two London-based photographers were also selected in the Landscape category; Catherine Hyland was honored for her Lithium Mining series, in which she uses a muted color palette to create a meditative series of industry-impacted landscapes.

Marco Kesseler's Polytunnel series focuses on the environment of contemporary British agriculture and highlights the hidden landscapes behind which food is produced.

Other photographers include Ramsgate-based Edward Thompson, who describes the quirks of British life and culture in his series In The Garden of England. Thompson has captured southeastern England for over 18 years and describes the series as describing "the nostalgia, clbad and mysterious beauty of everyday English life".

In the Creative category, British artist Allan Dransfield, based in Poland, was selected for his series Sheep Dogs of the North Pole, which he describes as "the way cultures, memories and phenomena mingle while life reverberates in the future ".

Other professional series selected for the UK include Danish photographer Thomas Nielsen's The Big Score series, which features fans of football club Brentford FC, located in the western United Kingdom, in the Sports category. .

The series of the French photographer Laetitia Vançon, At the end of the day, was selected in the Portrait category and offers young contemporaries a striking glimpse of life in the Outer Hebrides.

The series of the German photographer Toby Binder, Youth of Belfast, documents the daily life and problems faced by young people in the city's popular neighborhoods. Binder has also been selected for the Sony World Photography Awards 2017 and has spent the last decade photographing British teenagers.

Selected by a panel of eminent personalities from around the world, from academia, museums, publishers, festivals and the media, the list of professionals contains exceptional works that demonstrate artistic prowess and offer the audience compelling stories about the world. humanity and the contemporary world.

At the same time, the student list presents the work of 10 students from renowned institutions of higher learning around the world. The selected photographers come from several countries, including Bangladesh, Malaysia, Spain, Argentina and Canada.

Students were first challenged to produce a series of 3 to 5 images responding to the "Evolution" memoir. On this list, 10 students were selected and received Sony cameras with which they created a second series of works inspired by the memoir "Belong".

Joel Davies, a 22-year-old student at Central Saint Martins at London's University of the Arts, has been selected for the Aging Love series. Davies has since created Adieu, an emotionally charged series that describes the French girlfriend of this student preparing a life beyond Brexit and her uncertainty about what should come out of college.

Produced by the World Photography Organization, the world-renowned Sony World Photography Awards, constitute one of the major devices of the global photographic calendar.

A total of 326,997 entries from 195 countries and territories were submitted in the four competitions of the 2019 Awards, the highest ever.

To book tickets for the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 exhibition at Somerset House in London, visit worldphoto.org. The show begins on April 18, 2019.