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🚨 Entries of the Week are back! Across markets, mountains, coastlines, and interiors, these images reveal lives shaped by landscape, labour, tradition, and memory.

📚Read more about this week’s Entries of the Week here: www.worldphoto.org/blogs/19-11-25/landscape-labour-tradition-and-memory

🌍 Entries of the Week | Sony World Photography Awards 2026

This week’s Open competition highlights remind us that photography is a universal language.

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We’re back with Entries of the Week!

Want to see your work featured? Enter the Sony World Photography Awards 2026 Open competition! ✨
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Khánh Phan, a Vietnamese photographer and winner of the Open competition’s Travel category in 2021, shares the journey she took to turn her passion into a career.

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Entries of the Week: Underwater scenes, solitary wildlife, a floating ball and more - explore 10 images recently entered into the Open competition which caught our eye! bit.ly/4nKiXVC

Judges Announcement 📸 Get to know the panel of leading figures from across the photography industry carefully selected as the jury for the Sony World Photography Awards 2026: bit.ly/2026-Judges #photography #photographers

📸 Inspiration for photography is everywhere—if you slow down and look for it.

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© Reuben Ayo
© Benoit Rondelet
© Ayan Ku du
© Tommy Lei

Shred the Patriarchy by Chantal Pinzi

💬 India, the world's most populous country with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, only has a handful of female skaters. Some women have rebelled, transforming skateboarding into a form of resistance against the patriarchy.

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As September is here, we begin to bid farewell to summer by sharing captivating images that evoke the warmth and joy of the season ☀️

© Yevhen Kostiuk © Scott Seager © Martin Stranka
© Panagiotis Rontos, Sony World Photography Awards 2025

We are delighted to announce the inaugural European Student Award as part of the Sony World Photography Awards! Learn more: bit.ly/european-stu...

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The latest Entries of the Week are here! Be inspired by our selection of images recently entered to the Sony World Photography Awards 2026 Open competition: bit.ly/4oKb6ss

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8. Sebastião Salgado | 2024 Recipient

Image: Xingu Indigenous Territory, state of Mato Grosso, 2005. © Sebastião Salgado

7. Edward Burtynsky | 2022 Recipient

Image: © Edward Burtynsky, Phosphor Tailings Pond #4, Near Lakeland, Florida, USA, 2012. Courtesy Flowers Gallery, London / Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

6. Susan Meiselas | 2025 Recipient

Image: Roseann on the way to Manhattan Beach, New York City, 1978 © Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos

5. Rinko Kawauchi | 2023 Recipient

Image: © Rinko Kawauchi, Untitled, from the series "Ametsuchi”

4. Candida Höfer | 2018 Recipient

Image: Hermitage St. Petersburg VIII 2014. Copyright Candida Höfer, Bild-Kunst, Bonn

3. RongRong and Inri | 2016 Recipient

Image: © RongRong and Inri, Untitled, 2008 No.25

2. Nadav Kander | 2019 Recipient

Image: © Nadav Kander, Monument, Utah, USA. Courtesy of Flowers Gallery

1. Graciela Iturbide | 2017 Recipient

Image: © Graciela Iturbide, Nuestra Senora de las Iguanas, Juchitan, Mexico, 1979

This #WorldPhotographyDay, we honour some of the recipients of the Sony World Photography Awards' Outstanding Contribution to Photography.

From capturing everyday moments to documenting the highs and lows of humanity, each recipient has shaped how we see & understand the world through photography.