Ecco i nomi dei finalisti dei concorsi Open e Giovani dei Sony World Photography Awards 2019.
I concorsi premiano i migliori scatti singoli realizzati nel 2018 in tutto il mondo.
All’edizione 2019 sono arrivate 326.997 candidature provenienti da 195 Paesi (tra cui gli italiani, di cui otto sono arrivati tra i finalisti).
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© Carole Pariat, France, Shortlist, Open, Street Photography (Open competition), 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
Why go to public toilets when one can urinate outside freely? That is surely what this well-dressed young Indian thought. While two Indian musicians were posing, he began to pee on the wall just behind them. There is a very common and deep-seated habit of urinating and defecating outdoors in India. The current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, campaigned with the slogan “toilets before temples”. He allocated more than $40 billion for a latrine building and behavior change operation called Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission). It is a challenge to improve public health drastically knowing that, in the world, diseases caused by poor sanitation and unsafe water kill about 1.4 million children a year!
© Gérard Bret, France, Shortlist, Open, Landscape, 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
Tel un damier représentant les tables ostréicoles de l’étang de Thau, prés de Sète. France
© Arnaud Guillard, France, Shortlist, Open, Street Photography (Open competition), 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
Photography taken during the yellow vest protest in Paris at the Avenue des Champs Elysées. When I got closer to the fire I saw this man and his surrealist outfit. He certainly choosed what he was wearing to protect him from the heat, gaz and others dangerous objects. On one of the most famous and fashion street in the world, the whole scene was certainly unusual. When the time has come to fight for your rights, there is no need to be fashion. 
© Philippe Sarfati, France, Shortlist, Open, Architecture (Open competition), 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
The museum's staff waters the lawn on a summer afternoon.I heard you have to visit the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum to truly understand the SANAA architectural practices’ work. While I don't know if that is true, the building is undeniably impressive. Simultaneously quiet and radical, and yet somehow, both calming and grave.
© Jeroen Beekelaar, Netherlands, Shortlist, Open, Natural World & Wildlife, 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
Owl sitting on a lantern
© Alice van Kempen, Netherlands, Shortlist, Open, Still Life (Open competition), 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
The walls, silent witnesses of love and friendship, of sorrow, hatred and sometimes even murder. you will not find such an atmosphere anywhere else, than in abandoned buildings. 
© Mariëtte Aernoudts, Netherlands, Shortlist, Open, Creative, 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
A girl with red hair, barely lit
© Guillermo Ossa, Colombia, Shortlist, Open, Natural World & Wildlife, 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
The Chordeiles minor is a migratory bird that arrives in Colombia fleeing from the cold in the northern part of the American continent. This bird was hunting insects in the middle of a rainy night
© Martin Stranka, Czech Republic, Shortlist, Open, Creative (Open competition), 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
Whether you are physically male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside. We should never stop following our dreams, fighting for our ideals and protecting our visions which are all symbolised by the animals captured in this series "Dreamers and Warriors.
© Oscar van Heek, Netherlands, Shortlist, Open, Creative, 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
WW1 saw 1.5 billion shells fired across the trenches. One third of which still lie unexploded buried underground. Each year farmers dig up explosives in what has become known as ‘The Iron Harvest’. Shells are then detonated in empty fields. It will take another 500 hundred years for battlefields are made safe.To bring home the reality of trench war fare 100 years on, detonation of WW1 ammunition was filmed in the former battle grounds of Ypres in 2018.
Selected images are placed in a grid resembling a contact sheet with time codes and numbered 1-24. The images reference the famous 1878 Muybridge experiment consisting of 24 photographs shot in rapid succession. Like the Muybridge experiment which attempted to show what the naked eye could not break down, the Iron Harvest stills attempt to show the ‘anatomy’ of an explosion in what almost appears to be a scientific experiment
© Diego Diaz, Colombia, Shortlist, Open, Still Life (Open competition), 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
The work of mathematics teachers happens most of the time in the privacy of paper and pencil. The possible frustrations when being challenged by a big problem lead naturally to the elimination of the trace of errors. What we forget, is that by doing such a simple act of crumpling the paper and throwing it away, a phenomenon that is surely irreversible, a beautiful and interesting mathematical problem is generated: The crumpling paper model. It becomes attractive to capture the disorder and chaos that is evident in this new mathematical landscape. Valleys, shadows and roads of ideas, which appear and hide to be portrayed and returned to the beginning of the problem. This series presents 3 fields of interest: Combinatorial, Expectation Value and dynamic longitudinal systems for the analysis of retrovirals in people with HIV.