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Canadian photographers honoured in international awards
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One of Ana Cop's two nominated photos.
A Croatian-born, Toronto-based photographer is in the running for the $25,000 (U.S.) Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year prize, to be announced Apr. 27 in London. Ana Cop is one of 39 professional photographers named Tuesday as finalists for the prize, also known as L’Iris d’or.
The Sony awards, established in 2007, permit professional photographers to submit work in 15 categories within three broad genres.
Cop’s entries, front and rear views of a sculptural female nude reclining on an outdoor plinth before condominium towers, are finalists in the conceptualist category/fine arts genre.
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Ana Cop's second nominated photo.
Her other competitors in the category are Chinese photographer Zhongyin Gao and Germany’s Paul Gisbrecht.
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A still life by Andrzej Maciejewski
Another Canadian professional, Andrzej Maciejewski of Yarker, Ont., was named one of five runners-up in the still life category/fine arts genre.
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Canadian amateur photographers Christopher Martin and Matt Coppin were named runners-up in, respectively, the travel and arts/culture categories in the open competition.
The Sony competition attracted more than 105,000 submissions from amateur and established photographers in 162 countries.
Matt Coppin's "The Flaming Lips during the 2008 Pemberton Festival"
"Five monks standing on U Bein bridge in Amarapura in Myanmar at sunset" by Christopher Martin
