The document displays a collection of photographs submitted to the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards. The photographs represent a variety of subjects from different countries including portraits, landscapes, travel photos, and photos documenting cultural events. Categories highlighted include Open, Professional, Portraits, Landscapes, Travel, and Current Affairs. The Sony World Photography Awards receives nearly 140,000 submissions each year from over 166 countries.

1. Open Category - Travel: The Mongol.
Picture: ©Simon Morris/UK/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

2. Open Category - Smile: Yellow Fellow. A young boy celebrating the Indian Holi festival of colours
Picture: ©Anurag Kumar/India/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

3. Open Category - Nature
& wildlife: What are you
staring at!? A baby Orang
Utan peeking out from
his mother's embrace.
Picture: ©Chin Boon
Leng/Singapore/2014
Sony World Photography
Awards

4. Open Category - Smile: Muddy Smile.Picture: ©Alpay Erdem/Turkey/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

5. Open Category - Split Second: Untitled. The emotional outpouring of a bride on her way to her weddingPicture: ©Yao Wang
Chong/Taiwan/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

6. Open Category - Arts & Culture: Untitled. The Guča trumpet festivalPicture: © Vuk Adzic/Serbia/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

7. Open Category - People: Young
men from the Kara Tribe, Omo,
Ethiopia (taken in infared)Picture:
©Louise Porter/USA/2014 Sony
World Photography Awards

8. Open Category - Travel: Pilgrims and devotees of the Maha Kumbh Mela - the largest spiritual gathering on the planetPicture: ©Wolfgang
Weinhardt/Germany/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

9. Open Category - Nature & wildlife: Zeybeks (a reference to a Turkish traditional dance)Picture: ©Hasan BagÌlar/Cyprus/2014 Sony World
Photography Award

10. Open Category - Low Light: Be Cheerful Even in the Darkest of TimesPicture: Samantha Fortenberry/USA/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

11. Open Category - Arts & Culture: Beer festival in MunichPicture: ©Li Hao/China/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

12. Open Category -Split second: Homebound. Homeless children in Chittagong, BangladeshPicture: ©Ata Mohammad Adnan/Bangladesh/2014
Sony World Photography Awards

13. Open Category - People: Untitled. Image of miners from the Gold Fields Abangares gold mine of Guanacaste, Costa RicaPicture: ©Guillermo
Barquero/Costa Rica/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

14. Open Category - Panoramic: Vakil Bath. Panoramic photo made of four fisheye shots stitched together. Vakil Bath is a very popular
historical site located in Shiraz, IranPicture: ©Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji/Iran/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

15. Open Category - Architecture: The Calm Before The StormPicture: ©Sean Batten/UK/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

16. Professional category: Landscape: Untitled. Skiers enjoy the harsh winter in Poland.Picture: ©Kacper Kowalski/Poland/2014 Sony World
Photography Awards

17. Professional category - Current Affairs: Cost of slavery. Rana Plaza garment factory collapse.Picture: © K. M. Asad/Bangladesh/2014 Sony
World Photography Awards

18. Professional category - Architecture: Neighbours.Picture: © Herman Van Den Boom/Belgium/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

19. Professional category - Campaign: Big Cat, Little Cat - an advertising campaign for Whiskas cat foodPicture: ©George Logan/UK/2014 Sony
World Photography Awards

20. Professional category - Arts & Culture: Sparkle, Baby. 'Sparkle, baby' explores girl culture in Australia within the phenomena of beauty pageants,
particularly those directed at the young.Picture: © Chloe Bartram/Australia/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

21. Professional category - Arts & Culture: Rakher Upobash. An elderly Hindu woman sits with lights (Prodip) and prays to God in front of Shri Shri Lokanath
Brahmachar at an Ashram temple during the Rakher Upobash at Barodi, Bangladesh.Picture: © Suvra Kanti Das/Bangladesh/2014 Sony World Photography
Awards

23. Professional category - Landscape: Aerial series. Iceland.Picture: © Emmanuel Coupe-Kalomiris/Greece/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

24. Professional category - Landscapes: City landscapes from Shanghai city.Picture: © Arjen Schmitz/Netherlands/2014 Sony World P
hotography Awards

25. Professional category - Current Affairs: What is missing? A pusher with his gun in the Forcella neighborhood of Naples.Picture: © Esposito
Salvatore/Italy/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

26. Professional category - Sport: The Fighter, The Father.Picture: © Nikolai Linares/Denmark/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

27. Professional category - Current Affairs: No Moore. For 39 minutes on May 20, 2013, a massive EF5 tornado with winds reaching 210 mph cut a 17-mile long
path that was 1.3 miles wide at its peak. Moore, Oklahoma, bore the brunt of the damage. Destiny Pierman, 13 collects belongings from the damaged
bedroom of her home in Moore. She and her mother feared it levelled and were relieved to find the house damaged, but still standing. Destiny's epilepsy
medication, the family's primary concern, was right where they had left it.Picture: © Melissa Golden/USA/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

28. Professional category - Travel: Italy.Picture: © Sharon Derhy/Italy/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

29. Professional category - Sport: Untitled.Picture: © YongSheng Zheng/China/ 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

30. Professional category Portrait: Mad Couples.
Portraits from the UK
Mod scene.Picture: ©
Carlotta
Cardana/UK/2014 Sony
World Photography
Awards

31. Professional category
- Portraits: Wet
Dog.Picture: © Sophie
Gamand/USA/2014
Sony World
Photography Awards

32. Professional category Portraits: Wax System.
Portraits of the
waxworks at Madame
Tussauds.Picture: ©
Fabrizio
Cestari/Italy/2014 Sony
World Photography
Awards

33. Professional category
- People: Mother and
Son.Picture: © Denis
Dailleux//2014 Sony
World Photography
Awards

34. Professional category - Travel: A
polar bear at Svalbard,
Norway.Picture: © Wilfred
Berthelsen/Norway/2014 Sony
World Photography Awards

35. Kai-Uwe Gundlach/Germany/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

36. Ken Hermann/Denmark/2014 Sony World Photography Awards

37. The shortlist for the 2014 Sony World
Photography Awards has been revealed by
the World Photography Organisation.
Photographers from 166 countries submitted
nearly 140,000 images, the highest number of
entries in the awards’ seven year history.
From the submissions the judges have
selected an eclectic shortlist representing the
very finest in international contemporary
photography from the past 12 months. Here,
we present some of the finalists from the
Open and Professional categories