Thirty-one year-old American photographer Sara Naomi Lewkowicz is tonight announced as the winner of the 2014 L’Iris d’Or, Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year. Beating over 139,554 entries from 166 countries, this represents the highest number of entries in the awards’ seven year history. The photographer collected her award – Sony digital imaging equipment and $25,000 (USD) prize money – at the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Gala Ceremony held in London.
The judges voted unanimously for Lewkowicz’s hard-hitting series, ‘Shane and Maggie’, – an intimate examination of domestic violence as a process – as this year’s winner.
The wining series of works showcase the very best in international contemporary photography – from still life and architectural images forcing the viewer to find something surprising within the everyday – to witty images of wet dogs. The winners are:
• Architecture – Ludovic Maillard, France
• Arts and Culture – Viviana Peretti, Italy
• Campaign – Spencer Murphy, UK
• Conceptual – Thomas Brummett, US
• Contemporary Issues – Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, US
• Current Affairs – Guy Martin, UK
• Landscape – Roei Greenberg, Israel
• Lifestyle – Myriam Meloni, Italy
• Nature Wildlife – Michael Nichols, US
• People – Mario Wezel, Germany
• Portraiture – Sophie Gamand, France
• Sport – Salvatore Di Gregorio, Italy
• Still Life – Amanda Harman, UK
• Travel – Ricardo Teles, Brazil
Exhibition of winning images will be held between 1 – 18 May 2014 at Somerset House, London.
Viviana Peretti – Italy – Winner – Arts Culture – Professional Competition 2014 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition Awards. Colombian drag queen and Miss Bambuco Gay 2012 in the dressing room at a gay bar in Bogota few minutes before the beginning of the National Bambuco Gay Pageant 2013. For this contest the drag queens dress traditional Colombian clothes and dance the bambuco , a regional, folkloric, ‘religious related’ dance of the Andes, characterized by the elegance of its movements and precious dresses. Generally couples dance the bambuco and men lead women, in this series women are drag queens. This drag queen is from Huila – a region in the South of Colombia – where the folk dance comes from and where there is a big tradition around the ‘bambuco’ that children learn at school. People in Bogota don’t know how to dance the bambuco, for this reason the winner of the Drag Pageant is generally from Huila, as well as the men that dance with the ladies, and the judges of the contest. Bogota, July 19, 2013
Viviana Peretti – Italy_Winner – Arts Culture – Professional Competition 2014 Colombian drag queen and Miss Bambuco Gay 2012 dances at a gay bar in Bogota during the National Bambuco Gay Pageant 2013. For this contest the drag queens dress traditional Colombian clothes and dance the bambuco , a regional, folkloric, ‘religious related’ dance of the Andes, characterized by the elegance of its movements and precious dresses. Generally couples dance the bambuco and men lead women, in this series women are drag queens. This drag queen won the contest last year and at the end of the night she will crown the winner. She is from Huila – a region in the South of Colombia – where the folk dance comes from and where there is a big tradition around the ‘bambuco’ that children learn at school. People in Bogota don’t know how to dance the bambuco, for this reason the winner of the Drag Pageant is generally from Huila, as well as the men that dance with the ladies, and the judges of the contest. Bogota, July 19, 2013
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