Sony World Photography Awards 2025: The world seen through photographers’ eyes

SINGAPORE – Beautiful images of people and nature were unveiled when the winners of the

Sony World Photography Awards 2025

were announced in late February.

This annual free-to-enter competition is internationally renowned and competitive, with 419,000 images from more than 200 countries and territories sent in for the 2025 edition.

Singaporean architecture student Ng Guang Ze, 25, won the national award for Singapore, as well as the landscape category in the open competition of the awards.

The four categories in the Sony contest are: professional, open, student and youth. There are also national and regional awards that support local photographic communities around the world. These winners are picked from the open competition, which champions the best single images taken in the past year. 

Here are some of the winning images.

This super-wide aerial view of Times Square in New York City has a resolution of 400 million pixels. It has a viewing angle equivalent to that of a 5mm focal length on a full-frame camera.

A group of workers unloading rice straw from a truck. The straw is a by-product of farming that is used for various purposes, such as cattle feed and fuel. 

This image of an Indian flying fox dipping in water was taken during the summer, when the temperature was above 45 deg C.

Teresa’s swing is in perfect harmony with the movement of her skirt. Hailing from Oruro, Bolivia, she has been working for more than a decade at one of the highest golf courses in the world – the La Paz Golf Club, which sits 3,600m above sea level.

Every Monday, she and a friend leave behind their work roles and practise the sport they are passionate about, wearing the traditional clothing of the Bolivian chola.

Eric, 23, and Elia, 22, ride skateboards in front of a building in the town of Dnipro, Ukraine, which was bombed by the Russians in January 2023, killing 44 people.

“It’s hard to keep skating when you’re passing that kind of place,” says Eric. “But it’s necessary. Life shouldn’t stop. On the contrary, we have to make the most of every moment to live all the more intensely. It’s also a way of honouring those who have fallen so that we can live.”