The Sony International Images Awards have introduced the 30 finalists and over 65 shortlisted photographers within the 2026 Skilled pageant.
Throughout this 12 months’s Sony International Images Awards competitions, together with Skilled, Open, Pupil, and Adolescence classes, photographers from greater than 200 nations and territories entered over 430,000 photographs.
Within the Skilled pageant, photographers compete throughout 10 classes, with each and every photographer coming into a sequence of 5 to ten photographs consistent with class. First-, second-, and third-place winners are decided on for each and every class, along side as much as seven shortlisted photographers consistent with class.
Of the ten class winners, one will probably be named the “Photographer of the 12 months,” a prestigious honor for some of the international’s greatest images competitions. The Photographer of the 12 months may also get a solo exhibition as a part of the Sony International Images Awards display subsequent 12 months in London. This 12 months’s display in April will characteristic a solo showcase from final 12 months’s Photographer of the 12 months, Zed Nelson.
“The finalist and shortlisted paintings within the Skilled pageant for the Sony International Images Awards 2026 demonstrates a outstanding expansion within the craft and dedication to images as a formidable storytelling medium. Around the many collection we judged, I used to be deeply struck through the birthday party of the human revel in, and of affection, kindness, and quiet resilience woven into complicated and ceaselessly difficult realities. Most of the maximum tough photographs thinking about intimate moments and small acts of heroism, revealing the long-lasting energy and spirit present in on a regular basis lifestyles,” says Monica Allende, Chair of the Jury.
A choice of 25 of the finalists’ footage are featured beneath, and the whole gallery of all class finalists and shortlisted photographers are to be had at the Sony International Images Awards web page.
The entire winners within the Pupil, Adolescence, Open, and Skilled competitions of the Sony International Images Awards 2026 will probably be introduced on April 16, 2026.
Symbol credit: Sony International Images Awards. Particular person photographers are credited within the captions.