At the Diocesan Museum in Milan, the winning works of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023

Through September 3, 2023, the Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum in Milan is hosting the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 exhibition, curated by Barbara Silbe. Now in its sixteenth year, the Sony World Photography Awards are sponsored by the World Photography Organization and Sony and include the Professional, Open Youth and Student awards. Prior to Milan, the winning works of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023, awarded last April during the International Ceremony in London, were exhibited at Somerset House in London.

Works on display in Milan include Our War by Portuguese Edgar Martins, overall winner of Photographer of the Year with his highly personal tribute to his friend and photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who was killed during the 2011 Libyan civil war. Also on display is the work of Alessandro Cinque, winner of the Sustainability Prize, conceived in collaboration with the United Nations Foundation and Sony Pictures’ Picture This initiative to reward stories, people and organizations whose actions pursue one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Among the 160 works on display were also those of the other Italian photographers who took second and third place in different categories of the Professional competition: Noemi Comi and Edoardo Delille and Giulia Piermartiri, second and third place for Creative Photography; Bruno Zanzottera and Fabio Bucciarelli, second and third place for Landscape; and Andrea Fantini and Nicola Zolin, second and third place for Sport.

“The increasingly artistic and documentary connotation that defines this important international award arouses in me immense interest in the styles, which are so heterogeneous, and in the many stories with which I can come into contact,” said the exhibition’s curator. “Each of these photographers, professional or emerging, clinging to the present has borne witness to an experience of his or her own, told it by choosing a language, a precise grammar, and thought about how to develop it so that it would acquire coherence and be transformed into something tangible for all of us. Through the narratives of the award-winning authors who, thanks to this world stage, have the opportunity to disseminate their work for free and have their careers take a quantum leap forward, we learn about the world, peoples, facts, and feel emotions. The same ones that emerged as I edited these portfolios, the same ones that will come to anyone who sees these works printed and hung.”

"With the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 exhibition, the Diocesan Museum of Milan," stressed museum director Nadia Righi, “continues its program of exhibitions dedicated to photography with monographs of great masters such as Jacques Henri Lartigue, Elliott Erwitt and Robert Doisneau and with reviews that explore contemporary photographic languages. We are very pleased to share part of this journey with Sony, which has always been at the forefront of proposing solutions and tools for the evolution of photography.”

“Current events, the environment, geopolitics, migration, the world of work, digital innovation, and the dreams and aspirations of the younger generations: these are the major themes featured in the world’s largest photographic collection, which again this year gave birth to the Sony World Photography Awards. A competition that identifies, enhances and rewards talent in every category of photography, from the professional to the student, making this art form inclusive and bringing it close to ever wider segments of the public. We are proud, therefore, to once again have the opportunity to organize the exhibition in Italy and confirm the sensitivity that our country has towards photography of excellence,” said Angelo D’Orta, marketing director of Sony in Italy.

Daytime admission:

Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (from P.zza S.Eustorgio,3). Full 9 euros, reduced 7 euros.
You can buy the entrance ticket on site or online at www.chiostrisanteustorgio.it

Evening admission:

Daily from 5:30 to 10 p.m. (from Corso di Porta Ticinese, 95)
During evening hours, only the 10 euro aperitif formula at InChiostro Bistrot + entrance to the exhibitions (Sony World Photography Awards+Robert Doisneau) is active.

From July 17 to Sept. 3, the exhibition can only be visited during evening hours.

Image: Corey Arnold, United States (Winner Professional Competition Wildlife and Nature, Sony World Photography Awards 2023)

At the Diocesan Museum in Milan, the winning works of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023

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