Image: Chen Li, Winner: Open Travel

The Sony World Photography Awards has announced the ten category winners of the Open Competition.

Chaired by WDC’s editor Nigel Atherton, the Open Competition is for all photo enthusiasts and selects winners in ten different categories, each of whom receives an Alpha 6000 and has their images form part of the Sony WPA exhibition showing at london’s Somerset House from May 1.

These ten winners now compete for the title of Sony World Photography Awards Open Photographer of the Year, which will be announced at the awards ceremony on April 30.

Scroll down to see some of the winning images from the Open Competition:

Image: Alpay Erdem, Winner: Open Smile

Image: Vlad Eftenie, Winner: Open Low-light

Image: Kylli Sparre, Winner: Open Enhanced

Image: Holger Schmidtke, Winner: Open Architecture

Image: Gert van den Bosch, Winner: Open Nature & Wildlife

Image: Hairul Azizi Harun, Winne: Open Split Second

Image: Arup Ghosh, Winner: Open People

Image: Valerie Prudon, Winner: Open Arts & Culture

Image: Ivan Pedretti, Winner: Open Panoramic