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B+WSTANDING FIRMAUTOFOCUSCongratulations to Max Waugh,
who won the black & white
category of this year’s Wildlife
Photographer of the Year. His
picture shows a lone American
bison weathering a snowstorm
in Yellowstone National Park
in the US.
The best 100 pictures from
the competition can be seen in
lightbox displays at the Natural
History Museum in London until
31 May next year. The exhibitionwill tour across the UK and
travel to Australia, Canada,
Germany, Spain and the US.
Wildlife Photographer of
the Year is developed and
produced by the Natural
History Museum. A new book,
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Portfolio 29, is on sale, price
£25. You can also see the best
black & white pictures from
the competition on the digital
edition of this magazine.Four photographs by Sanlé Sory
have entered the permanent
collection of the Victoria &
Albert Museum in London.
The David Hall Gallery, which
represents Sanlé Sory, announced
that the pictures can be seen
on a wall of new acquisitions,
alongside work by Mitch Epstein,
Lee Friedlander and Philippe
Garner. The images are also in
a new V&A book Autofocus:The Car in Photography,
published to coincide with the
exhibition of the same name
running in the Sainsbury Gallery
of the V&A from 23 November
to 19 April. Seven Sanlé Sory
photographs were shown in the
recent Kubatana exhibition at
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium in
Norway, which was the museum’s
most visited exhibition of the
last decade.© Max Waugh/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 © Sanlé SoryMORE CHANCES
Four initiatives to encourage
photographers have been
launched by the Sony World
Photography Awards.
The initiatives are a Latin
America Professional Award
open to photographers from
Latin America, a China
National Student Award open
to students at Chinese colleges,
an Environment category to
promote the importance ofthe environment in fine art
and photojournalism, and a
Youth competition featuring
monthly challenges. These
are in addition to the usual
competition categories.
The deadline for the student
competition is 29 November, the
open competition and national
awards deadline is 7 January and
the professional awards deadline
is 14 January. Entry is free.This picture by F Dilek Uyar from Turkey is entered
into the open competition of the 2020 awards.© F Dilek Uyar / Sony World Photography AwardsFINDING PEACE
Black & white photographers were among the winners in the
Alfred Fried Photography Awards.
The awards recognise the best images of peace and are named after
the Austrian Nobel Peace laureate of 1911. The main award of €10,
went to Stefan Boness, with Dune Laboile winning the children’s
award. Four more people won medals, including B&W photographers
Dilla Djalil Daniel, Camilo Leon-Quijano and Alain Laboile.It’s food o’clock by
Dilla Djalil Daniel.© Dilla Djalil Daniel / Alfred Fried Photography Award2CV Bricoleé, 1968
by Sanlé Sory.