Sony World Photography Awards 2024: one step away from the winner of the professional competition November 24, 2022 February 28, 2024 Record number of entries for the seventeenth edition of the Sony World Photography Awards Professional competition , whose finalists and semi – finalists were announced by the World Photography Organisation. For 2024, more than 395,000 images from over 220 countries were submitted. All works in the section of the competition dedicated to professionals will be examined on the basis of the technical mastery demonstrated by the author, as well as the originality of the approach to narration .