The Sony World Photography Awards 2019 have entered the final stretch, and the large panel of anonymous judges already has the finalists of the professional category. In this edition, photographers from 161 countries participated, a compelling proof that talent through a lens has a global profile. Today we invite you to meet some of the works of these finalists. Unique shots full of color, emotion, or simply a different vision of things.

If you want to know more about this fabulous competition, you have several options. On one hand, visit the source, My Modern Met. Another option is to go directly to the official Sony World Photography Awards page, where the dates have already been published. All the winners will be announced next April 17, the official exhibition will take place at Somerset House (London) from April 18 to May 6, and the opening of submissions for the 2020 edition will be on June 1 of this year. What are you waiting for? The Sony World Photography Awards are among the most diverse and flexible competitions in the world. Take your camera, go out there, find a photograph, and participate.

Gallery: Works by the Finalists

Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Laetitia Vançon (France) — From the series "At the end of the day". Portrait of Danielle Mac Gillivray and her son Peter, in the Outer Hebrides (Scotland).
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Laetitia Vançon (France) — From the series "At the end of the day". Portrait of Danielle Mac Gillivray and her son Peter, in the Outer Hebrides (Scotland).
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Alice Mann (South Africa) — From the series "Drummies". In the image, "The Avondale Primary Majorettes".
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Hashem Shakeri (Iran) — From the series "An Elegy for the Death of Hamun". Image of young Hossein in the free zone of Beris, at the southern tip of Sistan and Baluchestan.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Mustafa Hassona (Palestine) — From the series "Palestinian Right of Return Protests". A protester with a slingshot and the Palestinian flag in Gaza, part of weekly protests against the Israeli blockade.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Karina Bikbulatova (Russian Federation) — From the series "The two parallels". Gulshat and Alina, two sisters abandoned by their father. They don't know they are sisters, and were raised in different families...
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Kieran Dodds (United Kingdom) — From the series "Hierotopia". Forest of the Church of Entos Eyesus, on an island in Lake Tana near Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Sadegh Zabbah (Iran) — From the series "Only Because of Him". One of the many pilgrims who approach on foot to visit the shrine of Mashhad.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Djeneba Aduayom (France) — From the series "Capsulated Series". The artistic experiment "Capsulated" presents "an interpretation of an inner imaginary world that translates the various emotions and states of mind that come with rejection, loneliness and stereotypes."
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Kim Kyung-Hoon (Republic of Korea) — From the series "A Harrowing Journey, Then Chaos at the Border". Fernando Velosque from Honduras, sitting in front of Mexican police at El Chaparral, a border crossing between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Andrew Kelly (Australia) — From the series "Outlawing the Face Veil in Denmark". Yah, a niqab wearer, cries while a police officer hugs her during a protest against the Danish ban on full-face veils in Copenhagen.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Zhipeng Zhu (China) — From the series "Dormitory Belongings". Portrait of a student and everything that usually fills their rooms. Another way to show their personality.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni (Italy) — From the series "Güle Güle". Many young couples travel to Turkey to get married aboard boats on the Bosphorus (strait of Istanbul).
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
David Behar (United States) — From the series "Cabana". The photographer decided to document the cabanas and other rental areas in Miami Beach, usually ignored by his colleagues.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Catherine Hyland (United Kingdom) — From the series "Lithium Mining". It's impossible not to recognize lithium mining in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Christian Vizl (Mexico) — From the series "Ocean Ambassadors". Striped marlin hunting mackerel near the coast of San Carlos.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Felicia Simion (Romania) — From the series "H o m e". The series portrays the architectural transformation process taking place in the country, modifying traditional concepts to give way to a more modern and global profile.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Pol Kurucz (France) — From the series "The Normals". A direct challenge to the idea of "normal". The rejection of norms and social tribes.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Maela Ohana (France) — From the series "Two Headed Eagle". An impressive garlic plant in the Sierra Madre of Oaxaca.
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Alessandro Grassani (Italy) — From the series "Boxing Against Violence: The Female Boxers Of Goma". Portrait of Elysèe, 16 years old, in the center of Goma (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
Meet the Finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 (Gallery)
Marta Moreiras (Spain) — From the series "Pères". A work that seeks to break stereotypes about fatherhood, while promoting social development and gender equality in Africa.