“The photographers we maintain selected who are part of the exhibition are the vanguard - they are the next generation," says Brendan Embser, managing editor of Aperture. He's talking about the professional finalists in this year's Sony World Photography Awards, and which he helped judge alongside three other photography experts: Emma Lewis,assistant curator, Tate; Liu Heung Shing, and founder of the Shanghai Center of Photography; and Isabella van Marle,head of artist & gallery relations at Unseen Amsterdam.
The Sony World Photography Awards are divided into four categories - professional, student, or youth,and open - which this year received over 326000 submissions from 195 countries and territories. The shortlisted work will disappear on expose at the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, London, and before going on tour around the world; this exhibition will also include a section committed to work by Nadav Kander,who has been awarded a prize for his Outstanding Contribution to Photography.
Source: bjp-online.com