The stunning overall winners of the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards

Following spectacular smaller winner bulletins, the Sony World Images Awards has introduced its general prizes. Australian photographer Adam Ferguson took the celebrated Photographer of the 12 months title with sequence of self-portraits of migrants ready to cross the border into the USA.

The skilled Photographer of the 12 months prize went to a sequence by Ferguson referred to as Migrantes. The distinctive sequence concerned Ferguson touring to Mexico in early 2021 to chronicle the tales of migrants ready in shelters on the US border.

"To seize a chunk of this unsure journey, I mounted a medium format digicam on a tripod with a cable launch after which stepped again, permitting the migrants to decide on the second of seize and provides them company within the technique of documenting their lives".

Adam Ferguson, Australia, Photographer of the 12 months, Skilled, Portraiture, 2022 Sony World Images Awards

Ferguson tried to make the photographs a collaborative work, giving the topics of every photograph management over the discharge shutter. Ferguson set the scene, mounted a digicam on a tripod and gave the topics a cable with the discharge for the shutter. This allowed the migrants to have company in how they have been represented.

“This set of portraits speaks volumes about how ethical intentionality and respect may also help keep away from a few of that sense of manipulation and invasion of the non-public which pictures is usually accused of,” defined Mike Trow, chair of the Skilled competitors judging panel. “By giving his topics the shutter launch Adam arms a sure energy to the sitter to make that call on tips on how to be perceived. These pictures are stunning, significant and type.”

Winner, Photographer of the 12 months, Open Compeition. A wild mustang stallion kicks up a mud storm in northwestern Colorado

Scott Wilson, United Kingdom, Winner, Open, Pure World & Wildlife, 2022 Sony World Images Awards

UK photographer Scott Wilson received the highest prize for Open Photographer of the 12 months, the competitors’s prime single picture award. Wilson’s spectacular shot of a wild mustang taken in northwestern Colorado is titled "Anger Administration."

“Viewing mustang habits within the wild is a uncooked and dynamic wildlife expertise,” stated Wilson. “The picture rigidity is symbolic of the conservation challenges going through wild horses within the American West, the place these treasured animals are being rounded up in document numbers and faraway from public lands.”

Winner, Skilled, Panorama. An uninhabitable volcanic desert within the Icelandic Highlands.

Line Dubois, Italy, Winner, Skilled, Panorama, 2022 Sony World Images Awards

These prime prizes comply with earlier bulletins revealing the highest nationwide winners and particular person class winners. The winners cap off a robust exhibiting for one of many world’s greatest and most influential pictures contests.

Have a look by means of our gallery at extra general winners alongside different handpicked highlights from this 12 months’s sensational contest.

Supply: World Images Group