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Craig Easton named winner in the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards The documentary photographer takes home top prize of Photographer of the Year, with category wins also going to Laura Pannack, Mark Hamilton Gruchy and Majid Hojjati 16/04/2021 9:00 am Craig Easton’s winning Bank Top series, which challenges the representation and misrepresentation of communities in northern England Craig Easton has also been awarded in the Portraiture category for his series Bank Top – which he created in partnership with writer Abdul Aziz Hafiz. The black and white images concentrate on the Bank Top neighbourhood in Blackburn, as a way of exploring the representation of communities in the north of England. The imagery was born from an initiative by Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, set up to challenge reports of the town as the most segregated in the UK. Easton and Hafiz spent a year on the project, working closely with locals to create texts to accompany the portraits. ....
Craig Easton who captured the culture and misrepresentation of communities has been named World Photographer of the Year 2021. Run by the World Photography Organisation (WPO), the Sony World Photography Awards are in their 14th year. More than 330,000 images were entered across 10 categories in four different competition classes: Professional, Open, Student, and Youth. Craig was announced World Photographer of the Year 2021 by Scott Gray founder and CEO of the World Photography Organisation in online ceremony. His series Bank Top was a collaboration with writer and academic Abdul Aziz Hafiz that focuses on the Bank Top area of Blackburn. It featured the residents and the shopkeepers from different backgrounds and cultures. ....
Craig Easton who captured the culture and misrepresentation of the Bank Top area of Blackburn has been named World Photographer of the Year 2021. Run by the World Photography Organisation (WPO), the Sony World Photography Awards are in their 14th year. More than 330,000 images were entered across 10 categories in four different competition classes: Professional, Open, Student, and Youth. Craig was announced World Photographer of the Year 2021 by Scott Gray founder and CEO of the World Photography Organisation in online ceremony. His series Bank Top was a collaboration with writer and academic Abdul Aziz Hafiz that focuses on the Bank Top area. It featured the residents and the shopkeepers from different backgrounds and cultures. ....
The World Photography Organisation is pleased to reveal the finalist and shortlisted photographers in the Professional competition for the Sony World Photography Awards 2021. Now in its 14th year, the Awards’ Professional competition rewards a remarkable body of work for technical excellence and a fresh perspective on contemporary subjects. The winner of Photographer of the Year 2021 will be selected from the group of Professional finalists and revealed on the 15 April. To mark the occasion a specially commissioned program featuring the winners and hosted by art historian Jacky Klein and entertainer Nish Kumar will be available to stream via the World Photography Organisation digital platforms on the 15 April. ....