Best Dutch Photo at the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
Photographer Harrie Coehorst was named the winner of the Netherlands National Award at the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards.
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Photographer Harrie Coehorst was named the winner of the Netherlands National Award at the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards.
The World Photography Organisation named photographer Edward Burtynsky the recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Contribution to Photography award.
Popel Coumou won the award for the best Dutch photo book of the previous two years with her publication Paper and Light.
Amateur photographer Raymond Widawski was the public-choice winner of the SPRING photo contest on Fotografie.nl.
Chinese photographer Li Huaifeng won the overall Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2021 award.
Danish photographer Mads Nissen won World Press Photo 2021 with his photograph The First Embrace.
Alex Pansier’s photograph won the Netherlands National Award at the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards.
Professional photographer Jan Rijnders was the audience winner of Fotografie.nl’s RED photo contest
The World Photography Organisation (WPO) named photographer Graciela Iturbide the recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award
Dutch photographer Jasper Doest was nominated for the 2021 World Press Photo Contest for his series Pandemic Pigeons – A Love Story.
Dutch photographer Peter Eleveld was nominated in the Professional competition of the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards for his still-life images.
The Royal Photographic Society announced the winners of Science Photographer of the Year 2020, including science and climate categories.
Ada den Hartigh won the Fotografie.nl Fall 2020 Photo Contest audience award with a colorful photograph of the autumn forest at Solse Gat.
Amsterdam photographer Annelies Damen won the Grand Prize for photography in SeeMe’s Represent competition.
Fine-art photographer Frank Peters received an honorable mention at the Prix de la Photographie Paris for his Clay Land series.
Rineke Dijkstra received the 2020 Johannes Vermeer Award, the Dutch state prize for the arts.
Eddy van Wessel won the 2019 Zilveren Camera with his series Het Laatste Bolwerk.

In 2020, the World Photography Organisation honored publisher and printer Gerhard Steidl for his work with photographers and his influential photo books.
Photographer Hans Stel of Schoorl wins the IPA Wildlife Award (Non-Professional Nature) with a puffin photo at the International Photography Awards in New York.
Photographer Frank Peters from Zeelandic Flanders won at the International Photography Awards with two winter photographs of the region.
Italian photographer Federico Borella was named the World Photography Organisation’s 2019 Photographer of the Year for his series Five Degrees.
The fifth annual Dronestagram contest for outstanding drone photography recently took place and announced three winners.

Dutch photographers Jasper Doest and Marinka Masséus competed for the 2019 Photographer of the Year title at the Sony World Photography Awards.

The World Photography Organisation (WPO) named photographer Nadav Kander the recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award.