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The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards (27 photos)
The Sony World Photography Awards, an annual competition hosted by the World Photography Organisation, just announced its shortlist of winners for 2016. This year’s contest attracted 230,103 entries from 186 countries. The organizers have again been kind enough to share some of their shortlisted images with us, gathered below. Overall winners are scheduled to be announced on April 21. All captions below come from the photographers. Running Away with the Circus. There are more than 300 people with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus blue unit, representing 25 different countries, speaking everything from Russian to Arabic to Guarani. A few travel in cars and trailers, but a majority, 270, live on the trains. Most come from multigeneration circus families, to the extent that collectively, the circus staff represents thousands of years of circus history. The men and women all say that only circus people like them can understand the lifestyle. They spend 44 weeks of the year traveling an average of 20,000 miles from coast to coast on a train that is 61 cars ”a full mile” long. It is a life of close quarters and rigorous training, a life that many of the performers began in childhood. Their job is to convince the world that the circus still matters. (© Copyright Stephanie Sinclair, Professional Daily Life, 2016 Sony World Photography Awards / National Geographic Creative)
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/02/the-2016-sony-world-photography-awards/470574/