2016 Sony World Photography Awards

Valter Bernardeschi, Italy. Shortlisted, Open Competition, Nature and Wild Life. A great crested grebe female defends her babies from attack by a big male. This happens on Garda Lake (Italy) during the breeding time. (Photo by Valter Bernardeschi/Sony World Photography Awards)

Stephanie Sinclair, United States. Professional; Daily Life. “The Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus is made up of people from 25 different countries, speaking everything from Russian to Arabic to Guarani. A few travel in cars and trailers, but a majority – 270 – live on the trains. Most come from multi-generation circus families, to the extent that collectively, the circus staff represents thousands of years of circus history”. (Photo by Stephanie Sinclair/Sony World Photography Awards)

Peter Voss, Germany. Open Competition; Smile. Young reindeer farmers in Mongolia. (Photo by Peter Voss/Sony World Photography Awards)

Professional landscape category winner. Rhino, from the series Land of Nothingness by Maroesjka Lavigne, Belgium. Namibia is one of the least densely populated places on earth, a barren, yet constantly changing desert landscape; here a rhino bleeds into ground and sky. (Photo by Maroesjka Lavigne)

Professional conceptual category winner. Greetings from Mars, by Julien Mauve, France. Mauve says: “I have always wondered what it would be like to discover a totally different world ... and to photograph it for the first time as if I was Ansel Adams. So I came up with this project, which is about space exploration and discovery. But it’s also about our behavior in front of landscapes and how we create pictures that will share our personal story with the world”. (Photo by Julien Mauve)

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Selection picked from: avax.news