IRISH SNAPPER CLICKS UP AWARD
Siobhan wins Sony photo accolade
INDONESIAN authorities closed an airport and residents left homes near an erupting volcano yesterday due to the dangers of spreading ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility of a tsunami.
Mount Ruang on the northern side of Sulawesi Island had at least five large eruptions on Wednesday, causing the Center for Volcanology and
AN Irish woman who quit her job as an architect to follow her dream of becoming a photographer saw it pay dividends when she won a huge accolade at the Sony World Photography Awards in London.
Siobhan Doran found out she won her award while she was in the Philippines at the official launch of her House That Sugar Built book, which includes the shots that impressed the judges.
The Carlow native was honoured at a glitzy ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane after her winning entry was chosen from almost 400,000 images entered in this year’s competition.
“I had been working in architecture and in the last four years before I quit, I did a photography degree in my spare time. I re-mortgaged my house to help fund the degree and set up my new career
– as otherwise I would not have been able to afford to make the career jump.”
Siobhan’s triumph in the Architecture section of the World Photography Awards followed disappointment last year when her first submission into the competition failed to impress the judges.
Dream
She has published three photography books and works as a freelance architectural and interiors photographer. She visits her sister in Dublin regularly and says a book project based in Ireland
“would be the dream job.”
Among the other winners this year were a perfectly timed shot of a rising moon on the Old Man of Storr hill on the Isle of Skye in Scotland,
Geological Disaster Mitigation to issue its highest level alert, indicating an active eruption.
The crater emitted white-gray smoke throughout yesterday, reaching more than 500 metres above the peak, as people were ordered to stay at least 6 kilometres from the 725m mountain.
800 of the 11,000 people living in the affected areas have already left.
which was taken during a blizzard and illuminated by drone lights. This won the UK’s Liam
Man the Open Photographer of the Year award.
The Photographer of the Year title was won by Juliette Pavy for series Spiralkampagnen: Forced Contraception and Unintended Sterilisation of Greenlandic Women.
The ceremony also honoured acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado, for his distinctive blackand-white works.