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…