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Sony World Photography Awards announces its shortlisted entries for 2016

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Milly Burroughs
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Date
24 February 2016
Two children play on a vast, white salt flat beside a green and white striped tent. The horizon is a hazy, pale grey that blends into the sky.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Salt Cleansing by Owee

Sony World Photography Awards has released its shortlisted entries for the 2016 professional, open, and youth competitions. Chaired by Dominique Green, an honorary jury has recognised the best of contemporary photography from the last year, chosen from a record-breaking 230 103 entries.

The 2016 professional competition, judged by a specialist panel that includes BBC global news website picture editor Emma Lynch and photography critic and curator Mariko Takeuchi, celebrates nine series that capture key current affairs stories from around the globe.

Chaired by Time Out group picture editor Jael Marschner, the open competition shortlist celebrates the diverse work of photography enthusiasts of all ages and backgrounds across ten categories including, architecture, enhanced, smile, split-second and travel.

Winning and shortlisted images from the 2016 awards will be showcased at the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House from 22 April – 8 May.

A group of people stand side by side against a weathered, grey corrugated metal shutter. They look forward with neutral expressions.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: 336591-1405866 by Gabriele Micalizzi

A circular concrete pool sits empty in a dusty construction site. Behind it, a row of unfinished peach and ochre buildings stand against a backdrop of jagged brown mountains.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Sinai park 06 by Andrea & Magda photographers

The interior of a bus where several people lie dead or unconscious across the seats and floor. Debris and blood are scattered across the blue patterned upholstery and the aisle.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Ukraine crisis – The east by Amnon Gutman

A person on a bmx bike jumps high in the air above a skate park. In the black and white sky, several white contrails streak across the clouds in a radial pattern.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: * by Dmitry Ivanov

A jagged ice sculpture sits inside a weathered bathtub in a derelict room. The walls are peeling with layers of blue and white paint, and exposed pipes run along the right side.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Global warming bath by Christian Spreng

A low-angle shot looking up into a white ribbed dome with a bright blue circular centre. Three glass skylights radiate outwards from the blue core towards the edges of the frame.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Water from under. by Nils Olof Wendel

A symmetrical view of a brutalist concrete metro station. The tracks lead into a dark tunnel beneath a heavy, coffered ceiling of white geometric blocks.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Empty transit by Lake Lewis

A person wearing white sunglasses and a pink T-shirt sits on a bright blue metal chair. A small white dog rests on the chair beside them.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2016: Nouveau riche by taliarudofsky

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Milly Burroughs

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Milly Burroughs (@millyburroughs2.0) is a Berlin-based writer and editor specialising in art, design and architecture. Her work can be read in magazines such as AnOther, Dazed, TON, Lux, Elephant, Hypebeast and many more, as well as contributing to books on architecture and design from publishers Gestalten and DK. She is It’s Nice That’s Berlin correspondent.

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