Bazooka hands and other pictures from the Sony World Photography Award 2020 shortlist

The World Organization of Photography has named the finalists and authors from the shortlist of Sony World Photography Awards 2020 in the category "Professionals", among them there are Russians. More than 135 thousand works have been submitted for participation in ten nominations of the professional competition — a record for today. The results of the competition will be announced in April in London. And now we can admire the pictures included in the shortlist.

Road in Xinjiang -Ping Xi, China

Unfinished city of Pardis — Hashim Shakeri, Iran

Grizzly bear on the Yukon — Marko Dmitrievich, Switzerland

Macaque on the background of street art, Thailand - Juan de la Maya, Spain

Bentenjima Japanese Temple — Ronnie Benert, Germany

Remains of the Japanese internment camp in Utah during World War II — Chang Kun Kim, South Korea

Dutch diggers in tunnels — Jeroen van Dam, Netherlands

A courier from a Hanoi eatery — John Enoch, UK

Sunset over the Red Sea in Egypt — Tobias Friedrich, Germany

Diamond Squid — Songda Kai, China

Syrian refugees from Al-Baghouz — Eddie van Wessel, Netherlands

Bigorexia or muscle dysmorphia on the example of the Russian freak Kirill Tereshin — Anton Dotsenko, USA

Fireflies in the Tottori Forest — Marashiro Hiroike, Japan

Abandoned mine dump in the German Bottrop — Sven Bernitz, Germany

Flaming Australia — Nicholas Moir, Australia