New Zea­l­and wins Sport at World Photo Awards

New Zea­l­and pho­to­grapher Scott Bar­bour was yes­ter­day announced the win­ner of the Sport cat­egory at the 2010 Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards. Bar­bour received his award at the Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards Cere­mony at the Pal­ais des Fest­ivals in Cannes, France. Barbour's win­ing series of images, entitled “Aus­tralian Open Ten­nis”, was chosen from over 80,000 entries from 148 coun­tries by the 2010 Hon­or­ary Judging Com­mit­tee, com­pris­ing world-renowned pho­to­graph­ers, cur­at­ors, rep­res­ent­at­ives from lead­ing inter­na­tional photo agen­cies and pic­ture edit­ors. More info and photo gal­lery after the jump.

New Zeal­ander Scott Bar­bour, win­ner of the sport cat­egory. ©Scott Bar­bour cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

Sport. ©Scott Bar­bour, cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

Scott Bar­bour was born in Christ­ch­urch, New Zea­l­and and has worked for Getty Images for over ten years as a staff pho­to­grapher. Based in their Sydney and Lon­don offices, Bar­bour has covered events ran­ging from the Olympic Games to the Asian Tsunami. He is now a freel­ance pho­to­grapher in Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia pho­to­graph­ing cor­por­ate and edit­or­ial work. Bar­bour has pre­vi­ously been recog­nised with numer­ous hon­ours and awards includ­ing a World Press Photo award, Pic­tures of the Year Inter­na­tional, NPPA, China Inter­na­tional Press Photo, the Brit­ish Pic­ture Edit­ors Awards, Brit­ish Sports Journ­al­ists Awards and the IOC Best of Sport awards.

This series of win­ning images was shot at the 2009 Aus­tralian Open in Mel­bourne which is the first of the four Grand Slam ten­nis tour­na­ments held each year.

Bar­bour says that “The Open takes place at the height of the Aus­tralian sum­mer and is fam­ous for its extremely hot days. Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer to win the men’s singles title in 2009. This was Nadal's first hard-court Grand Slam, hav­ing pre­vi­ously only won on clay at Roland Gar­ros and grass at Wimble­don. He also became the first Span­iard ever to win the Aus­tralian Open.”

Bar­bour was one of 12 pro­fes­sional cat­egory win­ners announced in Cannes. The full list is:

Pho­to­journ­al­ism and Documentary

• Wal­ter Astrada (Argen­tina) for Cur­rent Affairs
• Scott Bar­bour (New Zea­l­and) for Sport
• Tom­maso Aus­ili (Italy) for Con­tem­por­ary Issues
• Paolo Pel­legrin (Italy) for Arts and Entertainment

Com­mer­cial

• Mar­tin Brent (United King­dom) for Advertising
• David Hand­ley (United King­dom) for Fashion
• Mohammad Gol­chin (Iran) for Music

Fine Art

• Phil­ipp Lohöe­fener (Germany)for Architecture
• Tom­maso Bonaven­tura (Italy) for Portraiture
• Ren­hui Zhao (Singa­pore) for Con­cep­tual and Constructed
• Pere Pas­cual (Spain) for Nat­ural History
• Peter Franck (Ger­many) for Landscape

The pres­ti­gi­ous L’Iris d’Or/Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards Pho­to­grapher of the Year award was presen­ted to Italian pho­to­grapher Tom­maso Ausili.

Music. ©Mohammad Gol­chin, cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

Tom­maso Aus­ili (Italy), con­tem­por­ary issues cat­egory win­ner. © Tom­maso Bonaven­tura cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

Tom­maso Aus­ili (Italy), con­tem­por­ary issues cat­egory win­ner. © Tom­maso Bonaven­tura cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

David Hand­ley (United King­dom) win­ner of the fash­ion cat­egory. © David Hand­ley cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

©Phil­ipp Lohoe­fener, win­ner of the archi­tec­ture cat­egory. Cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

Archi­tec­ture. ©Phil­ipp Lohoe­fener, cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

©Ren­hui Zhao win­ner of the con­cep­tual and con­struc­ted cat­egory. Cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

©Ren­hui Zhao win­ner of the con­cep­tual and con­struc­ted cat­egory. Cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

Arts and Enter­tain­ment. ©Paolo Pel­legrin, cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

Arts and Enter­tain­ment. ©Paolo Pel­legrin Cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

Nat­ural His­tory. ©Pere Pas­cual Cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

Nat­ural His­tory. ©Pere Pas­cual Cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

© Mar­tin Brent cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010. Win­ner of the advert­ising category.

Advert­ising. ©Mar­tin Brent, cour­tesy of Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards 2010.

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