Julia Fullerton-Battern’s Old Father Thames project reimagines stories from London’s past, including this image recalling the days when Londoners would flock to a beach by the Tower of London
JULIA FULLERTON-BATTEN
Simone Olivieri showed the effects of meningitis on children in Africa, where the disease can result in limb amputations
SIMONE OLIVIERI
David Morring, a creative director at a Dallas advertising agency, was asked to tell Jesus Christ’s story through a modern lens. He Gets Us is a series of images highlighting confrontations we see today with the message “Jesus loved the people we hate”
DAVID MORRING
David Odisho, a Bloomberg photographer, captured firefighters trying to save a house during the California wildfires of August 2020
DAVID ODISHO
Edgar Martins used black-and-white film to retrace the steps of his friend Anton Hammerl, a photojournalist who was shot and killed during the Libyan war in 2011. Hammerl’s body has never been found
EDGAR MARTINS
Karam Al-Masri documented the impact of the earthquakes that hit northwest Syria in February. The quakes and their aftershocks claimed thousands of lives across Syria and Turkey
KARAM AL-MASRI
Moises Levy captured the scene in Guerroro, a fishing village in Mexico, when fishermen returned early in the morning with their catch. “This image expresses the energy of the birds as they receive their first meal of the day,” Levy said
MOISES LEVY
Cari Letelier followed the aurora borealis across the night sky in Iceland in February for eight nights, “practising the only hunting that should be allowed, the stars and aurora hunting”
CARI LETELIER
Ahmad Khatiri was a winner with Alone, which depicts a young boy in military uniform surrounded by Iranian servicemen
AHMAD KHATIRI
A volcanic eruption in Iceland in 2021 was captured by Ryan Fitzsimons for his winning submission, Once in a Lifetime
RYAN FITZSIMONS
Thomas Nicholson showed a giraffe bonding with her baby, but that was only part of the story. “The pair were in the territory of a leopard, and the tenderness of the moment contrasted with our concern that the baby would be in danger,” he recalled. Shortly after Nicholson took his picture, the giraffes made their way to safety
THOMAS NICHOLSON
Daniel Ceng, of the Zuma agency, showed Alexandria, a 14-year-old Ukrainian girl, saying goodbye to her father, who was killed on the front line in Kharkiv in May 2022. Ceng’s photo of Alexandria and her mother was taken before the funeral in Dnipro
DANIEL CENG
Florian Kriechbaumer waited patiently to capture Dubai in thick fog from the top of a skyscraper
FLORIAN KRIECHBAUMER
This buggy came to grief during the M’Hamid Express rally in Morocco, but it was able to get back onto the off-road course after being repaired the next day. Olivier Milon captured the dramatic crash
OLIVIER MILON
The Chinese-born photographer Tony Law is fascinated by extreme sports. He captured the split second at a rodeo when a young cowboy was thrown to the ground by a bucking bull. The cowboy scrambled out of the way before the bull landed
TONY LAW
Horst Kistner’s series Pets Meet Vintage was another favourite of the judges
HORST KISTNER
Finn O’Hara captured the Canadian Olympic freestyle skier Mikaël Kingsbury in this image, created alongside the digital artist Stephen MacLeod
FINN O’HARA
A shrimp found plenty to eat in this cod’s mouth — to the delight of the Japanese photographer Takayuki Toriumi, who called this image The Dentist. “I captured this delightful scene as if he were being examined by the shrimp doctor,” Toriumi said
TAKAYUKI TORIUMI
Marc Marco captured this electric storm off the north coast of Majorca
MARC MARCO
Wesley Kristopher got up close to Highland cattle. “These wonderful creatures are a blend of beauty, resilience and history,” he said.
WESLEY KRISTOPHER
Karolina Wojtasik followed the lives of farmers in South Sudan for a series called Cattle of Kings. Her photos were usually taken at sunrise or sunset, when the Ankole-Watusi cattle were brought in or out of camp
KAROLINA WOJTASIK
Tom McNally captured silk dancers from Northern Heights Dance performing 1,000 feet above Honister slate mine in the Lake District
TOM MCNALLY
Sun Hoaran’s image of the night sky was praised by judges
SUN HAORAN
The American photographer Katie Brockman had planned to take a more conventional pet photo, but Roxy had other ideas. “Just when I was getting ready to give up on this picture, she leant her head back and gave me the cutest little peek-a-boo moment,” she said
KATIE BROCKMAN
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