Chase The World, As You See It

The Sony photography and filmmaking contest is taking place from 6th October 2025 to 30th January 2026. This campaign invites creators and storytellers across the globe to explore the world through their lenses and push the boundaries of visual storytelling. 

Year 2025 challenge spans SIX dynamic themes, each led by a distinguished judge – acclaimed experts in photography, filmmaking, and creative storytelling – ensuring a rich diverse showcase of talent and perspectives.

Chase the Vision: A brand-new category introduced by Sony in this year 2025, curated by renowned architectural photographer Darren Soh. The theme challenges participants to look beyond the obvious and uncover the hidden stories with everyday spaces and structures, studying how light, form, and perspectives can transform ordinary places into extraordinary visual narratives.

Together with five other categories, the Sony contest spans a wide spectrum of creativity, from:

• Chase Speed: pushing creators to freeze fleeting movements and dynamic moments too fast for the eye to see.
• Chase the Wild: Exploring raw, untamed encounters with nature
• Chase Emotions: Focusing on immortalising powerful feelings and human connections
• Chase Light: Celebrating the magic illumination and shadow that turns ordinary scenes into extraordinary stories.
• Chase the Unknown: Encouraging participants to step beyond the familiar and embrace the thrill and mystery of the unexpected. 

Prizes Up for Grabs (in collaboration with Klook)

Here are the prizes up for grabs (in collaboration with Klook)

• 1 Grand Winner → G Master Lens of their choice* + $1,000 Klook e-Gift card
• 6 Theme Winners → $500 Sony voucher + $500 Klook e-Gift card
• 12 Judges’ Picks → $200 Sony voucher + $100 Klook e-Gift card

Travel, Capture, and Win with Klook

Travel, capture, and win with Klook! Top spenders on Klook in October will stand a chance to win a Sony Alpha 7 IV full-frame hybrid camera with lens and two creator cameras (worth $2,575)

With these cameras, travellers can capture their adventures and submit them to Sony’s “Chase The World, As You See It” Photography & Filmmaking Contest, turning memories into inspiring stories. Together, Sony and Klook seek to empower travellers to discover, capture, and share the world their own lens.

For more information, please visit this link.

How to Join Sony “Chase The World, As You See It” Photography & Filmmaking Contest

Participants aged 18 and above can join Sony “Chase The World, As You See It” photography and filmmaking contest by completing the following: 

• Post photos and/or videos (max 60s) taken with a Sony Alpha camera and lens on Instagram.
• In the post caption, mention the theme reflected in your photo or video, and how the capture relates to the theme. Tag @sonysingapore, and include #ChaseTheWorld2025 #GMaster #ChosenTheme (i.e. #ChasetheWild) #KlookSG.
• Ensure your profile is public.
• Entries must be original, recent (within 12 months), and reflect one theme per post.

Winners will be selected by Sony and the judging panel, and announced via Instagram DM by 2nd March 2026.

Terms & Conditions 

Please take note of the Terms & Conditions for Sony “Chase The World, As You See It” Photography & Filmmaking Contest.

• The Contest period is from 6 October 2025 – 30 January 2026.
• The Contest is open only to people of any nationality lawfully residing in Singapore who are 18 years or older as at the date of participation and during the Contest Period.
• Ensure the profile is set to public to qualify for the competition.
• Submitted photos and videos must be shot with any Sony Alpha camera and Sony lens, to be verified with a screenshot of EXIF data. Shooting with a G Master lens is encouraged, but optional.
• Submitted video entries to be capped at a maximum duration of 60 seconds.
• Photo and/or video submissions must be submitted within the Contest Period. Submitted photos or videos should not be taken more than 12 months from the date of submission.
• Editing of photo and video entries is allowed, but excessive digital imaging/post-treatments are discouraged.
• Participants may submit entries to more than one contest theme. However, each entry must be submitted as a separate post, with only one theme-related hashtag per post. Entries that include multiple category hashtags in a single post will be deemed ineligible and will not be considered by the judging panel. ​
• Each entry can contain up to 6 photos or videos. To ensure fair assessment and clarity in judging, each post should clearly align with only one contest theme.
• Participants with video entries must retain original copy/copies of the various video files for verification.

For the full T&Cs, please refer to this link.

Contest Themes and Judges

* Information and picture courtesy of Sony Electronics Singapore and Brand Cellar *

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The Sony World Photography Awards is a definitive platform for the celebration and discovery of contemporary photography. Since they first started in 2007, the Awards has recognised the seminal images and stories that shape our visual language and is one of the most prestigious photographic awards programmes in the world, providing global exposure and new opportunities for photographers. 

Organised by Creo, the Sony World Photography Awards form the core part of Crew’s photography programming strand, the World Photography Organisation. Sony supports the Awards to help the continued development of photographic culture by giving a global platform to today’s talent. 

Sony World Photography Awards Competitions

Photographers worldwide, you are invited to submit to the Sony World Photography Awards four competitions:

• Professional: Celebrating outstanding series of work between five to 10 images across 10 categories
• Open: Rewarding the best single images of the year across 10 categories
• Youth: Championing images by emerging talent aged 19 and under
• Student: Highlighting the projects of photography students across the globe

There are also additional photography awards initiatives such as 

• National & Regional Awards
• Latin America Professional Award
• Japan National Award
• Alpha Female Award
• Sustainability Prize

Entry to the Sony World Photography Awards is free. Photographers submissions are judged anonymously by a panel of industry leading judges. 

Insights

This was introduced in the 2025 Professional competition, it’s back for a second year. Insights is n additional prize element that sees the 10 category winners joining a day of tailored sessions in London with leading industry figures. 

From a range of commercial and institutional backgrounds, these experts offer photographers specialised guidance on ways to continue to widen their platform, and to find new opportunities to showcase their photography works. Other areas would be insights into private collectors of photography, to sessions on photo book publishing, and behind the scenes access to the acquisition process of public collections.

Student Competition Brief: Together 

For this year’s Student competition, photographers are asked to respond to the brief Together. 

Togetherness can take on many different meanings, shapes and forms. This is a subject rich for exploration. Throughout history, photographers have looked at life in communities in both the human and the natural world, taking into consideration the ways individuals exist as members of a group. 

For this year’s brief, students are invited to explore the theme of togetherness from any angle that they choose, looking at the concept in the broadest sense. From intimate stories of camaraderie, to big and small communities working towards shared goals, to places and spaces that bring us together, and patterns of connection in the natural world – This brief “Together” invites students of photography to consider the innate need for sociality in all living beings. 

Images can be taken on any device, shot in any style, and they can be approached from any angle. While creative responses are encouraged, photographers MUST stick to the brief.

Sony World Photography Awards 2026 Prizes and Deadlines

The Sony World Photography Awards now open for submissions from 1st June 2025. For full competition and category description, please visit https://www.worldphoto.org/ 

Submission Deadlines

The submission deadlines for the Sony World Photography Awards four competitions are as follows:

• Professional: 13 January 2026, 13:00 GMT
• Open: 6 January 2026, 13:00 GMT
• Student: 28 November 2025, 13:00 GMT
• Youth: 6 January 2026, 13:00 GMT

Prizes 

All category winners of the Professional, Open, Youth, and Student competitions will receive digital imaging equipment from Sony. 

In addition, cash prizes of USD$25,000 will be presented to the Photographer of the Year, USD$5,000 to the Open Photographer of the Year and USD$5,000 to the winner of Sustainability Prize. 

The winner of the Photographer of the Year title will also be rewarded with a solo presentation of their work as part of the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition in London the following year. All winning and shortlisted photographers’ works will be exhibited at the annual Sony World Photography Awards exhibition in London and will toured internationally. The winning images will also be published in the annual Awards’ book.

* Information courtesy of Sony Electronics (Singapore) and Brand Cellar *

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I have seen the Sony Alpha series develop over the years, tested and reviewed the Sony A7and Sony A7R previously, they have developed and improved over the years through their different series, A7, A7R, A7S. When I got my maiden hands on with the Sony A7 III, the feel of the camera body was solid and more balanced.

There were two setups to test out the Sony A7 III capabilities, the Eye AF with continuous 10fps on a model, the other setup was a model shoot with Sony flash, testing their ISO capabailities. Although the Sony A7 III test shoot and try out were pretty short, I was able to get a feel of their new mirrorless camera, their Eye AF is impressive and fast, the AF in the Sony A7 III is inherited from the Sony A9 model, the AF response and tracking is fast. In the low light high ISO test, while the Sony A7 ISO can expand up 204,800, I would probably not use it, I would stick to their ISO range of 100 to 51,200.

Here are some of the sample images that I shot with the Sony A7 III (resized and no edit, straight out JPEG)

If the opportunity arises to do a review of the Sony A7 III, I would share more in-depth with photographs and videos. Meanwhile, let me share and highlight the key points for the Sony A7 III:

• Newly developed Full-frame 24.2MP Back-Illuminated Exmor R CMOS Image Sensor with Evolved Image Processing
• Wide ISO range of 100 – 51200 (expandable to ISO 50 – 204800 for still images) and 15-Stop Dynamic Range at low sensitivities
• World Class AF system featuring 693 phase-detection AF points covering 93% of image area, 425 contrast AF points and fast and reliable Eye AF
• Continuous Shooting at up to 10fps with either Mechanical Shutter or Silent Shooting and full Auto Focus/Auto Exposure tracking
• 5-axis optical in-body image stabilisation with a 5.0 step shutter speed advantage
• High Resolution 4K Movie Shooting with full pixel readout and no pixel binning across full-width of full-frame sensor
• The longest rated battery life of any Mirrorless camera at 710 shots per charge

The key points from the Sony A7 III that caught my attention are the AF Speed and Performance, 425 contrast AF points that work with a 693-point focal plane phase-detection AF system inherited from the acclaimed A9 model. Their AF response and tracking has been greatly improved, with almost 2x the focusing speed (as compared to the Sony A7 II, Sony test conditions) in low-light condition and 2x the tracking speed (Sony test conditions for still images) compared to the previous model as a result of the faster image sensor readout.

Their acclaimed Eye AF is also available in the Sony A7 III, even in AF-C mode, this would be extremely useful for situations where the subject is moving, looking down or otherwise obstructed.

Pricing and Availability

The Sony A7 III and SEL2870 lens will be available at selected Sony stores, Sony Centres and Sony authorised dealers.

• A7 III body only – SGD $2,899.00 (inclusive of GST)
• A7 III with SEL2870 kit lens – SGD $3,299.00 (inclusive of GST)

For more information, do visit Sony Singaporewebsite and check out the latest  Sony A7 III!

* Information courtesy of Sony Electronics Asia Pacific and Poter Novelli *

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