Sony has announced the finalists of the eighth annual Sony Alpha Awards, which recognise Australian and New Zealand photographers and showcase their work.
Seascape Category Winner in the 2022 Sony Alpha Awards, ‘Starfish’ © Jingshu Zhu.
This year’s competition attracted more than 3700 entries and the shortlisted entries across the 10 categories, were carefully selected by the Sony Australia Digital Imaging team. The Grand Prize winner will be selected from among the total pool of finalists by Scott Gray, CEO of the World Photography Organisation. The finalists for the 2023 Sony Alpha Awards include:
Astrophotography: Brent Martin, AU, Dihang Wu, NZ, Ronnie Zheng, AU, Will Godward, AU, William Bellchambers, AU
City/Street: Aman Kapoor, AU, Grant Galbraith, AU, Ian Semmens, AU, Simon Westlake, AU
Creative: Gareth Meyer, NZ, Lu Melchiors, NZ, Luke David, AU, Marc Paterson, AU., Grant Galbraith, AU
Editorial: Chris Benny, AU, Hirak Bhattacharjee, AU, Ilan Wittenberg, NZ, Matt Hrkac, AU, Sandra Sanders, AU
Landscape: Ben Hay, AU, Darren Wassell, AU, Joonhwy Kwon, AU, Michael Robinson, AU, Mitch Green, AU
Nature: Simon Runting, NZ, Evie Hall, AU, Lewis Burnett, AU, Ross Long, AU, Sam Kay, NZ
Portrait: Angela Eastwood, NZ, Guy Sadler, AU, Jackson James, AU, Nicholas Smith, AU, Tia Johnson, AU
Sport: Chris Seen, AU, Donald Chin, AU, Jay Town, AU, Mauro Barberis, AU, Scott Barbour, AU
Seascape: Kosta Giannopoulos, AU, Nicholas Nairn-Smith, AU, Simon Pannell, AU, Mitch Green, AU
Wedding: Joshua Yates, NZ, Lucy Mcgoldrick, AU, Rachel Jordan, NZ, Silas Chau, AU
The competition prize pool consists of $50,000 worth of Sony camera gear, including $4,000 of Sony digital imaging gear per category. Each category finalist will have the change to compete for the overall Grand Prize of Sony digital imaging gear to the value of $10,000.
