2. The 2015 Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s biggest
photography competition, have announced their shortlists for its
Professional, Open and Youth categories. Recognising and rewarding
the world’s best contemporary photography from the last year, the
2015 competition received the highest number of entries in its eight
year history – 173,444 images from 171 countries – a 24% increase
on 2014. All descriptions are in the photographer's own words.

3. Professional: Travel - This series compares the faces and colours of four different cities, describing culture of the people are living there. Each image is a
puzzle from different doors in each city. First Image : Venice Second : Tehran Third : Spandau Forth : BerlinPicture: © Farid Sani/2015 Sony World
Photography Awards

4. Professional: Lifestyle - Series of images from the life of photographer's familyPicture: © Ramil Gilvanov/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

5. Open: People - An old shepherd that had been surprised by snow storm in Gilan's countrysides in the north of IranPicture: © Saeed Barikan/2015 Sony World
Photography Awards

6. Professional: Lifestyle - Everland is the largest theme park in Korea. This is the open shower in
Caribbean BayPicture: © Julia Fullerton-Batten/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

7. Open: Arts & Culture - Artistic Gymnastics Tournament in Poland. Girls that participated were aged 8-12Picture: © Adrian Jaszczak/2015 Sony World
Photography Awards

8. Professional: Contemporary Issues - Blind girls Sonia, 12, and Anita Singh, 5, were born into poverty with congenital cataract blindness. They must accompany
their parents everywhere as they cannot be left alone without risk. Picture: © Brent Stirton/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

9. Open: SmilePicture: © Joseph Makeni/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

10. Open: Architecture - Miracle Mile is my first photograph taken after relocating to Los Angeles from New YorkPicture: © Gina Alderson-
Hicks/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

11. Open: Smile .Picture: © Christine Kapuschinsky Johnson/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

12. Open: Nature & Wildlife - Three cute frogs in the morning lightPicture: © Harfian Herdi/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

13. Professional: Landscape - The project 'Restricted area' is about utopian strive of humans for technological progress.
Picture: © Danila Tkachenko/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

14. Open: Nature & Wildlife - These pelicans are resident on the point at Port
Vincent on the Yorke Peninsular in South Australia and have become as
opportunistic as the seagulls waiting for fish offal
Picture: © Melissa Little/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

15. Professional: Portraiture -
Caesarian section
#19Picture: © Christian
Berthelot/2015 Sony World
Photography Awards

16. Youth: Culture David Pereira/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

17. Professional: Sport - Underwater Grace #2Picture: © Jonathan Yeap Chin Tiong/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

18. Open: ArchitecturePicture: ©Jurgen Schrepfer/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

19. Professional Competition: Still Life -
Animal Behaviour #02
Picture: © Kimmo MetsÃanta/2015
Sony World Photography Awards

20. Open: Panoramic - It's a Sunday in February and one of the rare occasions, when the 'Rummelsburger Bucht' in Berlin, a sidearm of the Spree river, is
completely frozen. So people start to explore the new place and some even find an business opportunity selling grog.Picture: © Alexander Klebe/2015 Sony
World Photography Awards

21. Professional: People - Swedish dads
#2 - Ola Larsson, 41 years old,
Purchaser. On leave with his son
Gustav for eight months.Picture: ©
Johan Bavman/2015 Sony World
Photography Awards

22. Professional: People - 1 in 700 babies are born with
Down syndrome. Down syndrome is the most
common chromosomal abnormality in new-borns.
Specialists call it trisomy 21. Down syndrome is not a
disease - it is not curable. People with Down
syndrome have often physical and mental
impairments that make them different from others.
Since 2012 it has been possible to determine by
means of non-invasive tests before birth whether a
child will have Down's syndrome, as necessary,
initiate an abortion. The photo series 'one hundred
and forty centimetres' raises questions about our
relationship with the stigma of 'living with
impairment,' and the technical possibilities to
determine this even before birthPicture: © Sabine
Lewandowski/2015 Sony World Photography
Awards

23. Professional: Current Affairs - Ukrainian protester plays piano on a barricade in front of the riot police line during the continuing protest in Kiev,
UkrainePicture: ©Vladyslav Musiienko/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

24. Professional: Landscape - Blue Fields was shot at the Useless Loop solar salt operation situated in Shark Bay, the westernmost point of mainland Australia.
Picture: © Simon Butterworth, United Kingdom, Landscape, Shortlist, Professional Commpetition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards

25. Professional: Contemporary Issues - At almost 600 pounds, Hector Garcia Jr. finds simple daily tasks like bathing a challenge. He struggled to walk across the
hall from his bedroom to the bathroom so that his mother, Elena, could wash him after having cut his hair in November 2010. A month before, Hector started
dieting after he realized he was close to his highest known weight, 636 pounds.Picture: © Lisa Krantz/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

26. Professional: Sport - Sweat and blood Picture: © Marcin Klocek/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

27. Open: People - A young Nenets boy plays in -40 degrees on Yamal in the winter in SiberiaPicture: © Simon Morris/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

28. Professional: Portraiture - Hair #9 Picture: © Jens Juul/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

29. Professional: Campaign - Lidos Of England: Lost & Found. Lidos were perhaps at their most popular between the wars when people took their holidays here in
England. Many of them were built in the 1930s or earlier and were naturally located on the English south coast, which was a favoured holiday destination for
those living in London and the home counties. However there were many that were built in towns and cities to cope with the demand that once was and
many of these remain. However, when the affordability of overseas holidays started to emerge in the 1960s many of these lidos fell into decline and have
never recovered. Picture: © Jonathan Syer/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

30. Professional: People - In a Flemish village, surrounded by nature, Laura and Maurice live together with their daughter Eva. In the garden, Eva plays with her
dog or meets with her classmates. Friends and family come along and fill the house with activity. But when Eva is at school, Maurice and Laura shoot what
most people prefer to keep to themselves. The porn they make is not populated by Barbies or muscled superheroes.Picture: © Liza Van der Stock/2015 Sony
World Photography Awards

31. Professional: Landscape - Hindu devotees walk along the banks of the river Ganges, preparing to soak in the water of the sacred river, India 2008. One of a
series of images made over the past five years, documenting the changes the river Ganges is going through. The natural and industrial destruction along its
banks, some intentional some accidental.Picture: © Giulio di Sturco/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

32. Youth: PortraitPicture: © Adi Dekel/2015 Sony
World Photography Awards

33. Professional: Afrts & Culture - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men of the Toldot Aharon Sect celebrate the Purim holiday in the ultra-orthodox Mea Shearim
neighborhood in JerusalemPicture: © Gili Yaari/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

34. Professional: Sport - Italy's Ludwig Rieder
prepares for the training run during the Men's
Luge Doubles of the Sochi 2014 Winter
OlympicsPicture: © Sascha Fromm/2015 Sony
World Photography Awards

35. Professional: Portraiture - Glasgow; Second City of The Empire. On the run up to the Scottish ReferendumPicture: © Dougie Wallace/2015 Sony World
Photography Awards

36. Professional: Conceptual - Futurisitc archeology #3Picture: © Daesung Lee/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

37. Professional: Architecture - Clubs in Italy Picture: © Massimo Siragusa/2015 Sony World Photography Awards

38. Open Competition: Arts &
Culture - One of traditional
attractions in Indonesian Culture
called Bujang Ganong
Picture: © Aprison Aprison/2015
Sony World Photography
Awards