The sony world photography awards happen yearly, with four different sections of the competition available to enter into. The awards are run by World Photography Organisation and their aim is to increase the talk about photography world wide, as well as allowing a platform for people to share their work and to be recognised. The different sections you can enter into are professional, open, youth and student. This year the theme for the student competition is 'building a better future', which is extremely broad and allows us to choose what we think relates the most to the initial idea that is given. The maximum photographs that we are allowed to submit is 10 images and the minimum is 5, and from the chat that we had with Panos I think it is better to have a smaller amount of images that are at a really good quality, rather than too many. 

This series of images show people who work at an orange farm in Spain, showing their daily life. I love the vibe that these images have, they make me feel inspired and make me want to travel and photograph different people across the world. I think that the selected images that they have chosen to submit work extremely well together as there is a balance of everything and it shows all of the different parts of the process that they have in their day at work. I think the way that the images are quite simple makes them feel personal and almost homely, as you are seeing them not staged just going about their daily lives. 

I think another thing that makes this series stick out is the uniqueness of the subject they have chosen to focus on, it's documenting a career that some people may not have ever seen in action before or even known about. 

The first brief that was given in 2017 was called 'Memories', then the second brief was 'Emotions'. These images below are from the winner of the Student Focus awards from that year, they are documenting workers from an old paper factory in Argentina, shot across ten days. I think these images are able to give the viewer a real feel of what the place is like, along with the people who work there. The quality of the images is also another thing that makes them so striking, the image on the right in particular has a lot of different emotions in it from the way the man is slightly looking down in an almost disappointed way. 

The last Student Focus award that I looked at was the one in 2016, they had the first brief called 'Millennials' then the second was 'For the Good'. These images don't have any description from what I could see, but from just a guess I think it's documenting a group of boys. I love the variety of images that there are, some portraits, other shots that seem action backed then the pictures that are very still and calm. My favourite image is the one on the far right of the guy doing a flip, but Sofia has captured it at such an amazing time of him being completely upside down, also I find the angle of the image really interesting as you can see all of the little bits of rock being flicked into the air, which I think really adds to the action that the image has.