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Culled from nearly 320,000 entries from more than 200 countries, the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards  have announced their shortlist of winners. Above are some of the selected finalists, check out the full list here. 

Fangorn Forest by Ricardo Pestana

In August 2015 an amazingly detailed and colourful psychedelic poster appeared for sale on eBay, titled Monterey International Trips Festival. Described by the seller as “a busy trippy 60s style design with metallic inks and a nice silk screened fade through green, yellow and purple”, it brought together many of the elements typically seen in posters from the 1960s Summer of Love, and especially those coming out of London and San Francisco. Trips reflected the influence of artists such as the American Wes Wilson and his Fillmore posters from 1966-7, with their fat, swirling fonts; Michael English and Nigel Waymouth from London - otherwise known as Hapshash and the Coloured Coat - with their fantastical imagery of fairies, forests, naked women, and UFOs, luxuriously printed with rainbow-like effect using metallic gold and silver inks transitioning to yellows, pinks and purples; and the Australian Martin Sharp, whose unique take on Dada, Surrealism and satire, mashed up with a dose of LSD, produced the iconic Bob Dylan Blowing in the Mind from 1967.

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Four Reflections

Le renard et l'enfant (2007)

A dramatic thunderstorm in Maroochydore, Queensland. (Source)

By: Corbin Callaway

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