Azerbaijani photographer to participate in Sony World Photography Awards 2010

The 2010 Sony World Photography Awards has been announced in February, and will take place in Cannes, France from 22 to 27th of April. 190 outstanding photographers from 48 different countries - from fashion to music, architecture to current affairs, the Sony World Photography Awards is one of the most comprehensive photographic competitions in the world.

In the professional competition there are 12 categories within the three subject genres: Photojournalism and Documentary (Current Affairs, Sport, Contemporary Issues and Arts and Entertainment); Commercial (Advertising, Fashion and Music) and Fine Art (Portraiture, Conceptual and Constructed, Natural History, Landscape and Architecture). 

There are nine amateur categories which are: Architecture, Conceptual and     Constructed, Documentary,Fashion, Landscape, Music, Natural History, Portraiture and Sport. This year, the amateur entries were pre-selected by inspectors from iStockphoto, which were the official 2010 Pre-selection Committee, before being     judged by the Honorary Judging Committee.

The finalists in each of the categories will be announced on Thursday 22 April at the Sony World Photography Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner at the Grand Lumier Theatre at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. Also on the night, the 2010 winner of the L’Iris D’Or, the Sony World Photographer of the Year, will be announced and will receive $25,000 and professional Sony camera equipment. The winning amateur photographer will receive a $5,000 cash prize as well as Sony camera equipment. The final presentation of the night will be in honour of the acclaimed photographer Eve Arnold, who is the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Azerbaijani photographer Emil Khalilov has been shortlisted for Sony World Photography Awards 2010 in the professional Landscape photography category.

The professional category finalists and amateur category winners will be showcased in the Winner’s Exhibition as part of the World Photography Festival, a five day     celebration of the craft of photography. The festival takes place across the city     of Cannes, at locations including the famous Croisette, with a host of exhibitions,     workshops, portfolio reviews, student programmes and talks from World     Photography Academy members including Jonathan Torgovnik, Idris Khan, Chloe Limpkin (Picture Director of British Harper’s Bazaar), Reza and Bill Hunt (Co-founder of Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York. A highlight of the programme will be the     ‘Photography Now’ symposium, presented by some of the leading international     industry figures. It will explore the current topics, trends, dilemmas and debates     concerning photography today.


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