MUMBAI: The World Photography Organisation is proud to announce the judging panels for the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards.
The Honorary Jury will judge the Professional competition for all serious photographers submitting a body of work. Made up of prestigious photography professionals from the World Photographic Academy, the Honorary Jury each year includes some of the world’s leading industry members, such as photo editors, photographers, agency directors, critics, curators and publishers. Each expert judge is selected to uncover outstanding new work to award from amongst the 15 Professional categories and ultimately grant one photographer the L’Iris d’Or, the Sony World Photography Awards Professional Photographer of the Year, and $25,000 (USD).
The 2013 Honorary Jury includes:
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Architecture / Conceptual / Portraiture / Still Life
• Juana de Aizpuru – Gallery Director, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru (Spain)
• Olga Sviblova – Director, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow (Russia)
Lifestyle / Fashion & Beauty / Campaign / Sport
• Catherine Chermayeff (Chair) – Director, i2i photo agency (USA)
• Tim Paton – Managing Director, Balcony Jump (UK)
Current Affairs / Contemporary Issues / People / Arts & Culture
• Fiona Shields – Picture Editor, The Guardian (UK)
• Francesca Sears – Director, Panos Profile at Panos Pictures (UK)
• Chien-Chi Chang – Magnum Photographer (Taiwan)
Travel / Landscape / Nature & Wildlife
• Caroline Metcalfe – Director of Photography, Conde Nast Traveller (UK)
• Monica Suder – Photographic Consultant and Coach (Germany)
• Macduff Everton – Photographer (USA)
The Student Focus judging panel has also been selected from the World Photographic Academy. Led by photographic consultant W.M Hunt (US), the panel is completed with British photographers Leonie Hampton and Jonathan Worth. Student Focus is the world’s largest student photography programme and competition. The judges will select ten finalists who will be flown to London in April 2013 to compete for the Student Focus winner title. The prize for the winning university consists of €45,000 worth of Sony photography equipment and out of this amazing prize collection each of the 10 finalist students will be given a professional camera.
The Open Competition, for amateurs and enthusiasts, will be firstly judged by WPO’s pre-selection committee. A shortlist and winners will then be decided by a special judging panel including the Chair of the Honorary Jury and representatives from Sony and the WPO.
The Sony World Photography Awards is the world’s leading photography programme. A record number of over 112,000 images from 171 countries were entered into the 2012 competition.
