Photos from the shortlist of 2020 contest Sony World Photography Awards

The organizers of the Sony World Photography Awards announced the winners of the prize for the best photograph of the year in the Open competition. Now they will compete for the first prize of 5 thousand dollars.

The Sony World Photography Awards, which has become one of the top photo competitions in the world, this year we received more photos than ever. More than 345 thousand images of photographers from different corners of the world were presented in 10 categories of the Open competition (Open contest), including "wild nature", "Travel", "Landscape", "Street photography", "Movement", "Culture" and others.

Protester in the Colombian city of Medellin — winner in the category of Street photography / Photo: @Santiago Mesa

Cheetahs in Botswana is the winner in category Nature and wild life / Photo: @Guofei Li

Iceberg in the Greenland national Park — the winner in the category Landscapes / Photo: @Craig McGowan

The destruction of cooling towers in England — the winner in the category of Motion / Photo: @Alec Connah

The fish that suffocated in a plastic bag in the ocean — the winner in the category still life / Photo: @Jorge Reynal

A freight train transports iron ore in Mauritania — Winner in the category of Trip / Photo: @Adrian Guerin

Mangrove trees at sunset — Winner in the category Landscape / photo: © Hsiang Hui, Sylvester Wong, Malaysia

The dog dives into an outdoor pool in Colorado, USA — Winner in the category of Motion / photo: © Lior Yaakobi, Israel

photo: © Jon Liu, China

photo: © Rachel Brooks, UK

photo: © Ted Lau, UK

photo: © Lloyd Lane, United Kingdom

photo: © Julia Wimmerlin, Ukraine

photo: © Kai Hornung, Germany

photo: © Jonathan Rogers, UK

photo: © Dmitrii Tulmentev, Russia

photo: © Peter Li, UK

photo: © Satheesh Chandran, India

photo: © Katie Farr, UK