Gallery: Winners of the Sony World Photography Awards
The winner of the Youth competition, Daniel Dian-Ji Wu, took this photo at Venice Beach Skatepark in LA
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The winners of the Sony World Photography Awards have been announced.
There were ten categories including Sport, Wildlife & Nature and Creative, as well as a Youth, Student and Open competition.
The winners were announced at a special event in London.
British photographer Zed Nelson won the Photographer of the Year title and 16-year-old Taiwanese photographer, Daniel Dian-Ji Wu, won Youth Photographer of the Year.
The Sony World Photography Awards 2025 exhibition is on display at Somerset House, London until 5 May.
Check out some of the winners below...
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Photographer of the Year winner Zed Nelson took this photo of a chimpanzee in front of a painted background
Zed Nelson won the Photograher of the Year Award as well as the Wildlife and Nature category.
His project looks at the artificial spaces people create to interact with nature.
In the photo above a chimpanzee at Shanghai Wild Animal Park, in China, sits in front of a painted background, far from the treetops of its natural habitat in the Central Africa.
Commenting on his win, Zed Nelson, said: "We have become masters of a stage-managed, artificial 'experience' of nature."
One of the entries of Rhiannon Adam, the winner of the Creative category, shows herself alongside Bill Anders who was on the first manned mission to the Moon
While recently popstar Katy Perry and other civilians travelled into space, one photographer has documented how close she got to doing the same.
In 2018, Japanese billionaire and art collector Yusaku Maezawa announced a global search for eight artists to join him on a week-long lunar mission aboard SpaceX's Starship – the first civilian mission to deep space.
In 2021, artist Rhiannon Adam was chosen as the only female crew member from one million applicants.
In June 2024, after three years of preparation, the mission was suddenly cancelled so Rhiannon never got to make the journey.
She tells this story through her photography project, Rhi-Entry.
A portrait of the skaters of Panjim, Goa, one of the few places in India where a community of female skaters has formed
Skateboarding is quite a new sport in India and there are not a huge number of female skaters.
Italian photographer Chantal Pinzi travelled to skating communities in cities and villages in India.
Her images include Asha Gond who competed in the 2018 World Skateboarding Championship and Shradda Gaikwad, a national champion skateboarder in India.
The picture above shows an all-female group of skaters in Goa.