London, April 17 (CNA) Daniel Dian-ji Wu (吳典積), a 16-year-old Taiwanese student, has been named Youth Photographer of the Year at the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards in London.
Wu’s win was announced in a list of the multicategory competition’s overall winners released on Wednesday.
His work, titled “Eclipse of Motion,” features the silhouette of a skateboarder against a sunset at Venice Beach, Los Angeles. The photo topped submissions from 10 other finalists in the youth competition, which is open to photographers aged 19 and under.
Through the shot, the student from Kang Chiao International School in New Taipei said he intended to “capture the tranquil beauty of sunset and the young skateboarder’s passion and free spirit.”
“It’s an incredible honor to be named Youth Photographer of the Year. I feel beyond excited and grateful. Photography has been a huge part of my life for the past seven years, so this means so much to me,” Wu was quoted as saying by Sony.
Wu’s photograph will be exhibited alongside more than 300 prints and hundreds of digital images at Somerset House in London until May 5.
Other notable winners include Zed Nelson, a London-based photographer who received the Photographer of the Year award, and American documentary photographer Susan Meiselas, who was honored with the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award.
The Sony World Photography Awards is a flagship program of the World Photography Organisation, established in 2007, and is “one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious photography competitions,” according to the event’s official website.
