Sony World Photography Awards
Diverse
exhibition at Somerset House to show the winners and shortlisted entries in the
Sony World Photography Awards.
The professional
sections showed sets of pictures in broad themes. Works which stood out
included those by Jordi Pizarro called “Good Things Come in Together” looking
at the town of Kerala in India which has the highest incidence of twins in the
world. Also Matthais Hangst pictures of synchronised swimmers under water.
After my recent
holiday looking at art in Rome I keep finding visual links to it so Nokolai
Lomas’s pictures of boxers just after a fight reminded me of the wonderful
bronze boxer in the Pallazzo Massimo. It seems that some themes are universal.
Most shocking
were the winning ones by Ashgar Khamseh called “Fire of Hatred” of people
disfigured by social violence. These pictures were very hard to look at but in
most cases your first sight of them sees normality and then sees the scars.
Your see the person not the injury.
The open section
seemed to have many more joyful pictures than the professional one. I loved
Allan Oman’s picture “Fox Cub” of a red fence, green grass and a fox cubs head
sticking through the fence. Also Anais Stupka’s picture of a mountain through a
window which made the view through the window look like a picture on a wall.
Closed on 8 May
2016.
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Evening Standard
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