The world's largest photography competition, the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards announced its Grand Prize winners.
Iranian photographer Asghar Khamseh, who works for the Mehr News Agency, won the "Iris d'Or Photographer of the Year and the $25,000 prize for a powerful series of portraits of acid http://www.homedepot.com/b/Outdoors-Garden-Center-Watering-Irrigation-Sprinkler-Systems/N-5yc1vZc63n attack victims, "Fire of Hatred."
Here are the winners and finalists, chosen from a record-breaking 230,103 entries, in 14 documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbW3ayDWVQ and fine art professional categories -- each judged on a body of work. They winners were selected from a shortlist, announced in February 2016. Winners and shortlisted work will be on exhibit at Somerset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbW3ayDWVQ House, London from April 22-May 8, 2016.
Landscape winner - "Land of Nothingness"
Maroesjka Lavigne, Belgium
A country named after a desert. One of the least densely populated places on earth, Namibia's landscape draws you in, through a vast brown plain of scorched earth, and steers you over the white surface of a salt pan to finally arrive in the gold tones of the sand dunes.
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/2016-sony-world-photography-awards-winners/
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