A fox on a porch. Historic village houses in a montage with local forests. Fishing in an area rocked by climate change.
These are some of the overall winners in the prestigious 2022 Sony World Photography Awards. The winners were announced via video this week.
The winners include “In the Limelight,” above, by Milan Radisics of Hungary. It took top honors in the Professional, Wildlife and Nature category.
For eight months, Radisics spent each night sitting at the window of his cottage in a forest in Hungary watching a young fox he called Roxy. He said he set the lights up in advance, like a studio, waiting for her to walk into the scenes.
“During lockdown, both sides were forced to adjust: man to the wilds of the forest, animals to the human environment,” Radisics explains.
In supplemental information provided to media, Radisics describes this image from the series called “The Fox’s Tale”:
More than 340,000 images from 211 territories were submitted to this year’s contest and more than 156,000 were entered in the Professional competition. That’s the most entries in the history of the awards.
Winners will be on display in the Sony World Photography Awards 2022 exhibition which runs through May 2 at Somerset House, London. The exhibit includes 300 prints and hundreds of additional images featured in digital displays from winning and shortlisted photographers.
Here are some of the other winners.
“Living in the Transition pt. 6”
Shunta Kimura of Japan won in the Professional, Environment category for this image of a woman walking in the water, catching small fish or shrimp near sandbags in the river.
Kimura describes the series of photos:
“Anger Management”
Scott Wilson of the United Kingdom won Open Photographer of the Year for this image of a wild mustang stallion kicking up a dust storm in Colorado. The photo was entered in the Natural World and Wildlife category.
“Dorf 7”
Domagoj Burilović of Croatia won in the Professional, Architecture and Design category for his series of German villages. “Dorf” is the German word for village. German colonists began building with baked bricks instead of mud. This photo is a montage of a historic village house and local forests and plants taken in the Croatian agricultural region of Slavonia.
“The Guardians”
Lorenzo Poli of Italy won in the Professional, Landscape category for this series “Life On Earth.” The above image portrays “trees presiding over the glacial kingdom. They are the guardians of the water cycle. Trees help control the water cycle by regulating precipitation, evaporation and flows.”
Poli describes the series:
“Venezuelan Migrant, Colombia 6”
Jan Grarup of Denmark earned top honors in the Professional, Documentary Projects category for the series, “The Children of the Financial Collapse in Venezuela.”
The image above shows a young girl being transported home by her father along the garbage site, on the abandoned airstrip outside Maicao in Colombia.
Grarup describes the series:
Professional Photographer of the Year
Adam Ferguson of Australia won the Photographer of the Year title for “Migrantes,” a series of black and white self-portraits of migrants in Mexico, taken as they waited to cross the border into the United States. Ferguson set up the scene for each image, allowing the subjects to press the button and capture the moments.Ferguson said of his winning series:
