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Winner: 'Six degrees of Copenhagen' by Jens Juul, Denmark. He said: "Taking its point of departure in the idea that every person on Earth is connected in the sixth degree, this series of photos depicts human connections through the city of Copenhagen. The set up is that I portray random people that I engage with in the streets, and that these chance meetings end up with me taking highly personal photos of these people, who then each send me on to another person in their network, who I can portray, who then gives me the name of another person." (Jens Juul/ Sony World Photography Awards)
Winner: 'Six degrees of Copenhagen' by Jens Juul, Denmark. He said: "Taking its point of departure in the idea that every person on Earth is connected in the sixth degree, this series of photos depicts human connections through the city of Copenhagen. The set up is that I portray random people that I engage with in the streets, and that these chance meetings end up with me taking highly personal photos of these people, who then each send me on to another person in their network, who I can portray, who then gives me the name of another person." (Jens Juul/ Sony World Photography Awards)
More contrived than the 'People' category, this collection of images sees a wide range of subjects from survivors of the Second World War to a photographic representation of the theory 'Six degrees of separation'. In this category for professional photographers the judges did not award a second and third place.