19-Year-Old Penangite Wins World’s Best Youth Photographer Of The Year Award

The wining photo was taken in the back alley of the photographer's grandmother's house in Alor Setar, Kedah.

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The 2015 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced, and this stunning photograph of an alley behind a house in Kedah where 19-year-old Tan Yong Lin grew up has made him the 'Youth Photographer Of The Year'. Tan titled the photo as 'Back alley'.

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Tan flew to London from Penang to attend the event. While speaking on his winning photo, the 19-year-old Penangite said, "This is the back alley of my grandmother's house in Alor Star."

Tan Yong Lin

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The event also saw another winner from Malaysia, Mong-yong Sim. He was selected from over 87,000 entries to the Professional competition for a series called "Greenvironment".

Sim's photo was awarded third place in the Still Life category.

Image via Mong-yong Sim

The work of both Malaysian photographers will be shown at the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House, London and will be published in the 2015 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards book. Last year, Malaysia's Hairul Azizi Harun had won the Split Second category award:

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