Frederik Buyckx named Sony World Photography Awards 2017 Photographer of the Year

Belgian photographer Frederik Buyckx has been named the SonyWorld Photography Awards 2017 Photographer of the Year. Buyckx is a freelancephotographerfor the Belgian newspaper De Standaard and will receive the $25,000 prize for his winning series of images entitle 'Whiteout', which was shot in the Balkans, Scandinavia and Central Asia, all remote areas where people often live in isolation and in close contact with nature. "There is a peculiar transformation of nature when winter comes, when snow ...