
Manish Mamtani/Sony World Photography Awards
Now in its 11th year, the Sony World Photography Awards highlight the best images from amateur and professional photographers from around the globe.
This year’s shortlist images are no exception. Judges pored over nearly 320,000 images to make their selections in categories ranging from Nature & Wildlife to Current News & Affairs.
The winning images will be released on April 19. Take a look at this year’s shortlist images below.
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Street Photography (Open)Manuel Armenis/Sony World Photography AwardsThe most graceful lady of her neighborhood in Hamburg, Germany -- always stylish, colorful, in good spirits, smiling, never complaining, even through everyday struggles. She is never seen without her best friend – her little dog.
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Contemporary Issues (Professional)Fredrik Lerneryd/Sony World Photography AwardsEvery Wednesday at Spurgeons Academy, a school in the middle of the indecipherable maze of Kibera's narrow streets and alleys, students take the chairs and benches out of a classroom and sweep the floor. The school uniforms are switched to bright-colored clothes.
When teacher Mike Wamaya enters the classroom, the students get into position and place one hand on the concrete wall as though it were a ballet bar.
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Natural World & Wildlife (Professional)Neil Aldridge/Sony World Photography AwardsA young white rhino waits in a boma, blindfolded and partially drugged after a long journey from South Africa, before being released into the wild in Botswana as part of efforts to rebuild Botswana's lost rhino populations.
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Sport (Professional)Adam Pretty/Sony World Photography AwardsZamira Myrabekova of Kazakstan keeps her eyes on the ball while being held underwater by Russian defense during the Women's Water Polo Group D preliminary round match between Russia and Kazahstan during the 2017 Budapest FINA World Championships on July 20, 2017, in Budapest, Hungary.
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Creative (Professional)Eduardo Castaldo/Sony World Photography AwardsEvery day, before sunset, thousands of Palestinian workers spend between two and four hours clumped together to cross the so-called "CheckPoint 300," which divides Bethlehem and Jerusalem, in order to go working in Jerusalem and surrounding areas.
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Landscape (Professional)Varun Thota/Sony World Photography AwardsTaken on the outskirts of Hong Kong, this large residential area is supposed to resemble North American-type suburbs with individual homes and even yellow school buses. However, this large lake in the center of it all may have been designed a particular way, which can only truly be recognized from above.
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Current Affairs & News (Professional)Asha Miles/Sony World Photography AwardsFemale genital mutilation is the partial or complete removal of external female genitalia. A series called "Scars," which this photo belongs to, shares the personal stories of 12 Gambian women who survived the procedure as children.
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