10 stunning images from the Sony Photographer of the Year awards
Updated / Saturday, 17 Apr 2021
06:00
From barbecuing astronauts to locusts and a blue lagoon.
Want a step up from Instagram scrolling? Well, the World Photography Organisation has announced the grand winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2021, and the images will certainly soothe tired eyes.
The overall awards winner has been named as British documentary photographer Craig Easton. His series Bank Top – collaborated on with writer and academic Abdul Aziz Hafiz – considers the representation and misrepresentation of communities in northern England , particularly the Bank Top neighbourhood in Blackburn.
A raft of 10 category winners – covering the likes of sport, landscape and environment – were also crowned. This is our pick of the stunning images…
Craig Easton named winner in the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards
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Craig Easton’s winning Bank Top series, which challenges the representation and misrepresentation of communities in northern England
Craig Easton has also been awarded in the Portraiture category for his series Bank Top – which he created in partnership with writer Abdul Aziz Hafiz. The black and white images concentrate on the Bank Top neighbourhood in Blackburn, as a way of exploring the representation of communities in the north of England. The imagery was born from an initiative by Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, set up to challenge reports of the town as the most segregated in the UK. Easton and Hafiz spent a year on the project, working closely with locals to create texts to accompany the portraits.
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The winners of the professional category of the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced, with Craig Easton named as Photographer of the Year for his work on the representation of communities in northern England.
image copyrightCraig Easton
Easton, a documentary photographer from the UK, was awarded first place in the Portraiture category for his project Bank Top.
He collaborated with writer and academic Abdul Aziz Hafiz to examine the representation and misrepresentation of communities in northern England, focusing on a neighbourhood in Blackburn, Lancashire.
image copyrightCraig Easton
The project addresses issues of social deprivation, housing, unemployment and immigration, as well as the impact of past and present foreign policy.