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World Photography

Awards

The 2015 Sony World Photography Awards L’Iris
d’Or/ Professional Photographer of the Year
prize has gone to American John Moore for his
outstanding portfolio of images on the Ebola crisis
which devastated West Africa last year. Moore’s
work was chosen from the winners of the awards’
13 professional categories, and the judges described
his portfolio “Ebola Crisis Overwhelms Liberian
Capital” as a hard-hitting series of images that cut
to the heart of the tragedy.
Moore is a senior staff photographer and special
correspondent for Getty Images, and the winning
photographs have been credited for the early
exposure of the scale of the Ebola epidemic in
Monrovia, the capital of Liberia and the epicentre of
the deadly disease. Moore received $25,000USD as
his prize.
Category winners included: Cosmin Bumbut,
Romania (Architecture); Aristide Economopoulos, United States (Arts
and Culture); Sebastian Gil Miranda, France (Campaign); Rahul
Talukder, Bangladesh (Conceptual); Scott Typaldos, Switzerland
(Contemporary Issues); John Moore, United States (Current Affairs);
Simon Norfolk, United Kingdom (Landscape); Li Fan, China
(Lifestyle); Giovanni Troilo, Italy (People); Rubén Salgado Escudero,
Spain (Portraiture); Riccardo Bononi, Italy (Sport); Donald Weber,
Canada (Still Life); and Bernhard Lang, Germany (Travel).
Amateur German photographer Armin Appel was named the
overall Open Photographer of the Year and received $5,000 for his
image “Schoolyard”. A total of 79,264 images were entered into
the Open competition. Youth Photographer of the Year, open to
photographers aged 19 and under and judged on a single shot, was
19-year-old student Yong Lin Tan from Malaysia. The atmospheric
winning image was taken in the back alley of the photographer’s
grandmother’s house in Kedah, Malaysia. A total of 6,675 entries
were received to the Youth competition.
Russian photographer Svetlana Blagodareva from St Petersburg
State Polytechnic University beat nine other shortlisted students from
around the world to collect the Student Photographer of the Year
award. Her prize is €35,000 worth of Sony photography equipment for
her university.
Renowned Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt was honoured at
the awards with the Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize.

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An MSF health worker in

protective clothing carries a

sick girl at an Ebola treatment

centre during the Ebola crisis

in Liberia in 2014. © John

Moore/Getty Images, US,

L’Iris d’Or, 2015 Sony World

Photography Awards.

A girl tweets during her prom.

© Aristide Economopoulos,

US, Winner, Arts & Culture,

Professional, 2015 Sony

World Photography Awards;

Mt. Kenya, 1934. Simon

Norfolk mapped with a

pyrograph the melting away

of the Lewis Glacier.

The flame line shows the

Lewis Glacier’s location

in 1934. © Simon Norfolk/

INSTITUTE, United Kingdom,

Winner, Landscape,

Professional Competition,

2015 Sony World

Photography Awards.

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mk II Limited Edition

Olympus has released a limited editiion version

of it’s OM-D E-M5 Mk II in homage to its classic

OM-3Ti film camera.

The new OM-D E-M5 Mk II Limited Edition,

which will be restricted to just 7000 sets worldwide,

is coated with a special titanium paint colour and

will have some exclusive accessories, including a

genuine leather strap and a numbered owner’s

card in a leather card case.

The OM-D E-M5 Mk II, launched

in February 2015, is the latest model in

the Olympus OM-D interchangeable

lens camera series. Olympus says the

design of the E-M5 series within the

OM-D ILC system is reminiscent of

classic “OM System” 35mm film cameras. This

limited edition model pays homage to one of the

last OM film cameras produced, the 1994 OM-

3Ti, by adopting its titanium paint colour.

The specially designed camera strap and

matching card case feature high-quality stitching

and genuine leather. An owner’s card numbered

from one to 7,000 is also included in the set as

proof of authenticity. Olympus says an inspirational

quote by Mr Yoshihisa Maitani, the designer of the

OM System, will be printed on every card.

The OM-D E-M5 Mk II Limited Edition is

available now. Recommended retail price for the

Limited Edition Kit is A$1,899 and

NZ$2,199. ❂

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