Finalister och shortlistade fotografer i den professionella kategorin av 2025 års upplaga av Sony World Photography Awards, SWPA, har nu avslöjats av juryn.
Två svenskar har nu blivit shortlistade: Cletus Nelson Nwadike för sin serie "Kings and Queens" i Portrait-kategorin och Per-Anders Pettersson i Environment-kategorin, för sin serie "Coal Communities in Mpumalanga Province amid South Africa’s ‘Green Transition’".
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Bonkinkosi Mhlanga (35) climbs up from a closed coal mine in Ermelo. Bonkinkosi is an artisanal miner, working seven days a week in a closed coal mine with hundreds of colleagues. He has to carry each 60kg bag of coal up 84 steps to the surface. He sells each bag for about US$4–5, making a living and supporting his family. There are about 130 active coal mines in Mpumalanga and about 600 that have closed.
Ermelo, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.Foto: Per-Anders Pettersson
Children play in a field next to the coal fired power station at Kriel. The power plant is one of many in the province, but the international community is putting pressure on South Africa to close its ageing coal-fired plants. Kriel, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.Foto: Per-Anders Pettersson
"A king by the pool." These young boys and girls had just graduated from senior secondary school in Lagos, Nigeria. They spent the day by the pool to celebrate their achievements with their classmates; and love was in the air. Some of them are secretly in love. This was a day of singing and dancing, some were sad because they would never see their friends again. Many of the students would soon move to another part of the country to continue their education, or get married and build a home. The photographer comments, ‘when I was growing up in 1990, things were very different. We were not allowed to be close to each other this way. Boys and girls did not show their emotions this way to one another. This is Lagos and, this is not allowed in the other part of Nigeria either. But it is coming!'Foto: Cletus Nelson Nwadike
'A queen is just a queen.'Foto: Cletus Nelson Nwadike
Det är 18:e gången som fototävlingen hålls, och totalt har över 419 000 bilder skickats in för tävlan där fotografer från över 200 länder har deltagit. Detta innebär en ökning med över 25 000 bilder för omgången, samtidigt som antalet deltagande länder minskat från 220 till 200.
Den globala vinnaren och vinnarna i kategorierna för student, ungdom, öpppen och professionell tävlan presenteras 16 april 2025 vid en prisutdelning i London. Bilderna kommer även att ställas ut på Somerset House i centrala London från 17 april fram till 5 maj 2025.
