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Sony Philippines recently announced Renzer Rev Damaso as the Philippines’ National Award winner for the Sony World Photography Awards 2025. The National & Regional Awards programme is an initiative set up by Sony and Creo under its photography strand, the World Photography Organization, to support local photographic communities around the world with 56 countries taking part this year. Across this year’s Awards over 419,000 images from over 200 countries and territories were submitted to the Sony World Photography Awards 2025. National and Regional Award winners were selected from the Open competition which champions the best single images taken in the past year.
Damaso was anonymously selected by judges for his photograph Basketball Swish, entered into the Motion category of the Open competition. This photograph was taken during a campus sports festival in the Philippines. The photographer carefully adjusted their shutter speed to freeze the moment the ball hit the rim. A pure-blooded Igorot born in Bsu-bokod, Benguet the eldest among four siblings and currently living in Kayapa, Nueva Vizcaya, Damaso is taking up Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Social Studies. Commenting on his win, Damaso said, “I am very happy and excited because there are a lot of professional photographers all around the world that competed.” As the Philippines’ National Award winner, Renzer Rev Damaso receives Sony digital imaging equipment and will be included in the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition and book.
The overall winners in the Student, Youth, Open and Professional competitions of the Sony World Photography Awards 2025 will be announced on April 16, 2025 and their winning works will go on display as part of the exhibition at Somerset House in London, United Kingdom on April 17–May 5, 2025. Aside from Damaso, this year’s National and Regional Awards winners are:
Bangladesh – Syed Mahabubul Kader
Cambodia – Sam Ang Ourng
China Mainland – Hao Guo, Winner; Yaping Du, 2nd Place; KunPeng Zhu, 3rd Place
Egypt – Ahmed Abdallah
Germany – Timo Zilz
India – Rajeev Gaikwad
Indonesia – Sim Jhones Gozali
Kazakhstan – Anel Bazylova
Republic of Korea – Kibong Nam, Winner; Gilyoung Pyo, 2nd Place; Kyunghwan Oh, 3rd Place
Kuwait – Mohammad Mirza
Malaysia – Wan Yong Chong
Myanmar – Zay Yar Lin
Nepal – Rabik Upadhayay
Nigeria – Nsikanabasi Effiong
Pakistan – Ali Sohail
Poland – Hanna Kantor
Qatar – Ridhwan Mohammed Rafi
Saudi Arabia – Mohammed Muhtasib
Singapore – Ng Guang Ze
South Africa – Werner De Kock
Sri Lanka – Sasindu Pramuditha
Taiwan – Chen De-Huang
Thailand – Kiyoshi Hijiki
Turkey – Rahsan Firtina
United Arab Emirates – Donell Gumiran
Uzbekistan – Mubina Fayzullaeva
Vietnam – Viêt Vân Trân
EUROPEAN REGIONAL AWARDS
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania & Moldova: Peter Svoboda (Slovakia), Winner; Tomáš Havrda (Czech Republic), Shortlist; Attila Domokos (Hungary), Shortlist; Irina Zaiteva (Moldova), Shortlist; Marian Plaino (Romania), Shortlist
Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania: Ieva Gailë (Lithuania), Winner; Raido Nurk (Estonia), Shortlist; Niks Freimanis (Latvia), Shortlist
Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina: Marko Buntic (Croatia), Winner; Sanja Vrzic (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Shortlist; Suer Celina (Kosovo), Shortlist; Radojko Bošković (Montenegro), Shortlist; Slobodan Blagojevic (Serbia), Shortlist; Ivan Borko (Slovenia), Shortlist
Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria & North Macedonia: Panagiotis Rontos (Greece), Winner; Yavor Michev (Bulgaria), Shortlist; Elena Georgiou (Cyprus), Shortlist; Vlatko Rafeski (North Macedonia), Shortlist
LATIN AMERICA REGIONAL AWARDS
Lucero Mora Ardila (Mexico), Winner
Pedro Jarque Krebs (Peru), 2nd Place
Kevin Molano (Colombia), 3rd Place
Carola Pettis (Argentina), Shortlist
Brian Delgadillo (Bolivia), Shortlist
Jean Paul De la Harpe Zubiaur (Chile), Shortlist
Lior Berman Fernàndez (Costa Rica), Shortlist
Carlos Espinosa (Ecuador), Shortlist
Rafael Valladares (Guatemala), Shortlist
Cecilia Nion (Uruguay), Shortlist
