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2021 Sony World Photography Professional Competition: Finalists and shortlist (Part Two)

The Sony World Photography Organisation recently announced the finalist and shortlisted photographers in the professional competition for 2021. Here is a selection of the images, in the portraiture and sports categories.
Portraiture category

















Daniele has been the president of APAE for ten years, an association that brings together a hundred fans of reptiles and amphibians. For Daniele, keeping the skeleton of his iguana Cucci “was a way to honor her and still have her close to me. I preferred the skeleton to taxidermy because I didn’t want to give her the illusion of life. In that case, it would have given me too much melancholy”. Lares is an ongoing project about our response to the death of our pets. I met several families who decided to keep the body of the animal they loved in their homes, embalmed, in the form of a skeleton, or in formalin. What may appear to be an anomaly is actually more widespread than might be imagined. In Roman civilisation Lares referred to the statues of the spirits of ancestors and protectors of home and family. Like those statues, dead animals are preserved in everyday places. And it’s there that I wanted to set the family portraits. © Luca Rotondo, Italy, Shortlist, Professional, Portraiture, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards
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Sport category
















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