Deadline: 13 January 2026
Entries are now open for the Sony World Photography Awards Professional Competition to reward the best photo series worldwide.
Categories
- Architecture & Design
- Creative
- Documentary Projects
- Environment
- Landscape
- Perspectives
- Portraiture
- Wildlife & Nature
- Still Life
- Sport
Benefits
- Receive Sony digital imaging equipment
- Flights and accommodation to the awards ceremony in London
- Additional day of networking opportunities, one-to-one sessions with industry experts and portfolio reviews
- Certificate
- Trophy
- Global press exposure
- Copy of the book
- Inclusion in book
- Inclusion in exhibition
- Promoted on website
- Promoted to online community
- Solo display at London exhibition the following year
Award Information
- Entry is free and you could win $25,000, a solo show, a range of Sony Digital Imaging equipment, a professional career-development day – plus more!
Eligibility Criteria
- The Competition is free to enter.
- The Professional competition is open to all Photographers entering a body of work.
- All Entrants must be over 18.
Application Requirements
- To enter, you must upload your image via the World Photography Organisation website or any of the official Sony World Photography Awards’ website and follow the on-screen instructions carefully.
- Image Entry criteria:
- Published work may have been taken at any point in history, but must have been published between the dates of 1 January 2025 and 13 January 2026.
- Up to 20% of work can be published on your personal website and social media i.e. two images can be published on personal platforms if submitting a series of 8-10 images. One image can be published if submitting a series of 5-7 images.
- Un-published work entered into the competition may have been taken at any point in history but never been shown publicly. Once unpublished work has been entered, it cannot be entered again as published work in the future year of the Awards’ competition.
- Images should be no smaller than 1MB and no larger than 5MB. Images should be JPEG files.
- All images must be saved in the sRGB colour model and EXIF data must be left in the image file.
- All Entrants, if they are selected amongst the shortlist, must be able to supply a high resolution image suitable for printing in exhibitions should the image be required.
- Entries will be judged between January 14, 2026 and January 31, 2026.
- The three finalists (1st, 2nd and 3rd place) and a shortlist of up to seven photographers from each category will be selected and announced prior to April 2026. Category winners and overall competition winners will be announced in April 2026. The finalists and shortlist will be notified by email in January.
- You may enter a minimum of five (5) and a maximum of ten (10) images per category, and may enter as many categories as you wish, however you cannot enter the same series or images into more than one category.
- Judging will be based on the portfolio of work entered for each category.
For more information, visit World Photography Organisation.
