The Winning Photos of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023

The Winning Photos of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023
The Winning Photos of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023

The World Photography Organization has announced the overall winners in the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards 2023 competition.

The “overall winners” announcement comes less than two months after 55 photographers earned National Awards and a month after the Professional Category finalists were unveiled.

Edgar Martins has been named the Photographer of the Year in the Sony World Photography Awards 2023

Acclaimed photographer, Edgar Martins of Portugal, has been named the Photographer of the Year in the Sony World Photography Awards 2023, the sixteenth edition of the massive competition.

Martins earned the top honor for his photo series Our War, which pays homage to Martins’ friend and photojournalist, the late Anton Hammerl, who was tragically killed during the Libyan Civil War in 2011 by government militia.

Frustrated by an inability to determine the remains of his deceased friend, Martins traveled to Libya. He covertly entered the country with the assistance of a smuggler. Once there, Martins realized that it would be impossible to carry out a thorough investigation of what happened to his friend, so he instead reflected on the question, “How does one tell a story when there is no witness, no testimony, no evidence, no subject?”

READ THE FULL STORY ON PETAPIXEL.COM