• Sony World Photography Awards! – The SONY World Photography Awards will be presented at Cannes on April 24. This is the inaugural year of the awards, and coincides with the arrival of SONY's Alpha system (the corporation's new family of DSLR's and lenses). The presentations will take place at a VIP gala evening in the Palais des Festivals and will include an award to a noted individual for their contribution to photography. [expand story >>>]
Winners in the amateur category have been announced already, and include two Britons – Martin Kharumwa and Kerry Grainger – as well as overall winner Dr. Arup Ghosh, an Indian amateur with a remarkable portfolio of travel photography – shot in the subcontinent – who won with his photograph of a barber at work.
The SONY World Photography Awards are richly endowed, and they're judged by some of the leading names in photography today. The awards ceremony will make a big splash. And SONY have enlisted Magnum to curate an exhibition of the winners, to be displayed alongside some of the most iconic prints in the history of photography.
SONY is an established leader in broadcast systems, and in professional and commercial photo printing. Their sponsorship of these awards, and the corporation's introduction of professional Alpha DSLR models, could be read as indicating how serious they are about competing with Canon and Nikon for mindshare amongst pro photographers. [add comment]
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