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Kenya’s winner for 2016 Sony World Photography Awards revealed
Otieno Nyadimo’s winning image, ‘Smile at the heavens’. Kenyan photographer Otieno Nyadimo (30) was announced as the winner of Kenya…
Kenyan photographer Otieno Nyadimo (30) was announced as the winner of Kenya National Award, part of world’s biggest photography competition, the Sony World Photography Awards.
Nyadimo’s winning image,’Smile at the heavens’,was chosen as the single best photograph taken by aKenyan photographer entered into any of theawards’ ten Open categories.
Nyadimo, a professional photographer based in Nairobi, has won a Sony A6300 and a Carl Zeiss lens SEL1670Z. In addition, the winning image will be part of the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, London from 22nd April – 8th May and will be published in the annual Sony World Photography Awards book.
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The exhibition will also include the winning and shortlisted images of Professional, Open and Youth competitions alongside the first major European exhibition of the artistic duo andfine art photographers RongRong & inri (China/Japan), recipients of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize at the awards.
The winning image, ‘Smile at the heavens’, is a hart-warming image of a man smiling at the sky captured at a photography workshop in Hells Gate National Park.
Talking about his win, Nyadimo comments: “I’m super excited about winning Kenya National Award. This is my first time winning anything photography related let alone being nominated. Keep working with what you love and it shall pay off eventually!”
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The Runners up positions for Kenya National Award were given to: Allan Gichigi took 2nd place for his image titled ‘Chablis woman’ while Abdallah Hassan for his image titled ‘Lost soul’ took 3rd place.
The National Awards programme honours and rewards the best single image taken by a local photographer and runs in 60 countries across the world from Argentina to Australia. It is open to photographers of all abilities.
The winners of all 60 National Awards were announced today. Images from local winners plus those from around the world are available to view and download from here.