Craig Easton named winner in the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards
The documentary photographer takes home top prize of Photographer of the Year, with category wins also going to Laura Pannack, Mark Hamilton Gruchy and Majid Hojjati 16/04/2021 9:00 am
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.
The winning photographers in the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards have been revealed – and the images in this year’s winners’ gallery are as fascinating as ever.
The contest runs four competitions – professional, open, student and youth. This year, it received 330,000 entries from photographers across the globe.
The winner of the professional competition, scooping the title of Photographer of the Year 2021 and the $25,000 (£18,201) grand prize, is Scottish snapper Craig Easton for his series of portraits that examine ‘misrepresentation of communities in northern England’ and focus on the tight-knit neighbourhood of Bank Top in Blackburn.
Mike Trow, chair of the 2021 professional competition, said: ‘What is so impressive about this project is the intent, dedication and understanding Craig brings to it. These are not people who necessarily want to be photographed, but Craig gained their trust. They look frankly to camera and we see a mutual understanding bet
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Craig Easton (UK) has won the esteemed Photographer of the Year title 2021
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Simone Tramonte (Italy) is the Environment winner for his series Net-zero Transition. The Blue Lagoon, one of Iceland s most important tourist attractions. Geothermal water that has already generated electricity at the Svartsengi Power Station and has passed through a heat exchanger to provide heat for a municipal water heating system is finally fed into the lagoon. The water s high silica content keeps it from leaching into the lava field and gives it an appealing aqua tint
The winners in the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards 2021 revealed - with the top prize going to a British photographer for a series of portraits shot in Blackburn
The title of Photographer of the Year 2021 and the $25,000 grand prize goes to photographer Craig Easton
His series of black-and-white portraits examines misrepresentation of communities in northern England
Open competition winner is Zimbabwean Tamary Kudita for her stunning portrait of a young black woman
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Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
The annual Sony World Photography Awards has announced the winners of its 2021 competition, with two of the top prizes going to photographers who reexamined biases in how culture and history is portrayed.
Zimbabwean photographer Tamary Kudita was named Open Photographer of the Year, a category honoring single images, and awarded $5,000 for her winning portrait, African Victorian. British documentarian Craig Easton was named Photographer of the Year and awarded $25,000 for the series Bank Top, which comprises black-and-white images and text, capturing a humanistic portrait of a small community in Blackburn, northern England.