Sony Photographer of the Year Awards 2009

Michael van den Bogaard from Germany won first prize in the Architecture category for his pictures Shanghai 07 Photograph: Michael van den Bogaard

Amiran White from the UK won the Profesional Commercial Music category for this image: 'Preetha Naravanan, 12, practices piano at Shanti Bhavan, meaning Haven of Peace, a residential school for disadvantaged children of India's lowest caste, the so-called untouchables, in south India' Photograph: Amiran White

Amit Madheshiya from India scooped the Professional Arts and Entertainment category for his pictures of India. 'A distinct feature of the architecture of these itinerant cinemas; the fashionably modified walls and roofs of the tent are often constructed from discarded film posters and banners' Photograph: Amit Madheshiya

David Zimmerman, winner of the Professional Landscape category. 'The American south-west desert environment is a total ecosystem that is extremely fragile, easily scarred, and slowly healed ... and its resources, including certain rare and endangered species of wildlife, plants, and fishes, and numerous archaeological and historic sites, are seriously threatened by air pollution, inadequate federal management authority, and pressures of increased use' Photograph: David Zimmerman

Waiting game: Four Congolese government soldiers shelter from the rain on the frontline about 3 miles north of Kibati. CNDP Rebels and government soldiers are only separated by less then half a mile, and fighting flares regularly. Dominic Nahr won 2nd prize in the Current Affairs category for this series of pictures Photograph: Dominic Nahr

Dustin Humphrey won first prize in the Advertising category for this image entitled 'NUTOPIA', for the surf clothing firm Insight Photograph: Dustin Humphrey

Giulio Di Sturco won first prize in the contemporary issues category for his images of the Kosi River flooding in India. 'In late August, the Kosi River in India overflowed its banks in the state of Bihar after severe monsoon rains caused a dam to burst in neighbouring Nepal, triggering what officials are calling the worst floods in 50 years' Photograph: Giulio Di Sturco

Julian Abram Wainwright from Canada won the Sport category for 'Diving II: Men's 10m Platform Diving, Beijing Olympics 2008' Photograph: Julian Abram Wainwright

Kosuke Okahara took 2nd prize in the Contemporary Issues category for 'Ibasyo self-injury among young people in Japan'. Sayuri, 22, seen smoking in her room, smokes almost three packs of cigarettes a day. She also self-harms, a result of being sexually abused as a child Photograph: Kosuke Okahara

Lisa Maree Williams won the Natural History category for her 'Wildlife Warriors'. A kangaroo joey receives treatment at The Australian Wildlife Hospital, the largest wildlife hospital in the world. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams

Martin Bogren took 2nd prize in the portraiture category for his images of Sweden. This image is titled 'Woman with umbrella.' Photograph: Martin Bogren

Piotr Fajfer from Poland won first prize in the Fashion category for 'Princess of the Crows'. The dress is by Eva Danhofer Photograph: Piotr Fajfer

Roderik Henderson from the Netherlands won first prize in the Portraiture section for images of people sheltering in their cars from the snow in nocturnal British Columbia, Canada Photograph: Roderik Henderson

Tamany Baker scooped first prize in the Conceptual & Constructed category for her series of images titled 'Living with Wolfie, 2008'. The series documents her response to the 'presents' that Wolfie, her beloved cat, brings into the home. 'At first, I experienced some kind of horror: these dead creatures waiting for me in different parts of my house. Then I looked at Wolfie and tried to understand the instincts which brought them there' Photograph: Tamany Baker

Wojciech Grzedzinski from Poland won the Current Affairs category for his images of Georgia last August. In this photograph, a Georgian woman cries after a Russian airstrike on civilian buildings in Gori, about 50 miles north of Tbilisi, on 9 August 2008 Photograph: Wojciech Grzedzinski

Sony World photography awards: Iranian tourists visiting Persepolis in Iran Photograph: David Watts