The National Awards program is an initiative set up by the World Photography Organisation and Sony to support local photographic communities around the world, with 53 countries taking part this year.
A National Winners – of the 2021 Sony World Photography Award of the Region are:
- Photographer Abdelhamid Tahoun (Egypt)
- Photographer Naser Alomari (Kuwait)
- Photographer Abdulla Al-Mushaifri (Qatar)
- Photographer Naif Al-Bugami (Saudi Arabia) – winning picture below
- Photographer – Mireia Vilaplana (based in Dubai, UAE)
Over 330,000 images from 220 territories were submitted to the Sony World Photography Awards 2021 and over 165,000 were entered to the Open competition (from which the National Awards winner was selected).
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EGYPT /KUWAIT / QATAR / SAUDI ARABIA / U.A.E