The Italian photographer scooped the $25,000 pinnacle prize at the Sony World Photography Awards with a chain on climate change and suicide amongst Indian farmers.
Federico Borella has been named Photographer of the Year at the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards, prevailing the $25,000 prize for his collection Five Degrees – a take a look at male suicide within the farming community of Tamil Nadu, southern India, which is dealing with its worst drought in 140 years. The Italian photographer’s work takes its lead from Berkeley University to observe, which found a correlation between weather alternate and expanded suicide rates among Indian farmers and explores the impact of both through images of the farming panorama, mementos of the farmers, and snapshots in their survivors.
“As global warming modifications the face of lifestyles ever more unexpectedly – specifically in growing and underdeveloped countries – the paintings of artists including Borella becomes ever more wished,” commented Mike Trow, chair of the expert jury. He delivered that this 12 months’ submissions “provoked a lot of debate and hobby amongst the jury” with works “pushing the bounds of pictures and difficult the perceptions and expectations the target audience.”
The Sony World Photography Awards are divided into professional, pupil, adolescents, and open – which this year acquired over 326,000 submissions from 195 nations and territories. Ten winners were picked out within the professional classes, with Borella triumphing in the Documentary class along with his undertaking.
The Architecture prize was taken via Stephan Zirwes, Germany, for his collection Cut-Outs – Pools 2018; Rebecca Fertinel, Belgium, received the Brief category for her collection Ubuntu – I Am Because We Are. Marinka Messages, Netherlands, received the Creative type for the group Chosen [not] to be; the Discovery prize was taken by Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni, Italy, for the collection Güle Güle. Yan Wang Preston, UK, received the Landscape prize with the series To the South of the Colourful Clouds.
Jasper Doest, Netherlands, gained the Natural World & Wildlife class and his series Meet Bob; Alvaro Laiz, Spain, received the Portraiture category and his collection The Edge. Alessandro Grassini, Italy, acquired the Sport class with the series Boxing Against Violence: The Female Boxers Of Goma, and Nicolas Gaspard & Pauline Baert, France, received the Still Life category with the series Yuck. Under the chair Mike Trow, the 2019 Professional opposition changed into judged with the aid of Erin Barnett, director of exhibitions and collections at the International Center of Photography inside the US; Brendan Embser, managing editor of Aperture; Emma Lewis, decide and assistant curator at Tate; Liu Heung Shing, founder of the Shanghai Center of Photography; and Isabella van Marle, head of artist & gallery family members at Unseen Amsterdam.
Nadav Kander was offered the 2019 Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize, while the Student competition was won using Sergi Villanueva from the Universidad Jaume I in Spain. Zelle Westfall, 18, from the US, won the Youth Photographer of the Year. Christy Lee Rogers took the Open Photographer of the Year from the US.
