Sony World Photography awards winners 2010

L’Iris d’Or/ Professional Contemporary Issues winner: 'In the corridor of death, walking the last steps that lead into the so-called “trap”, the animals seem to be aware of their impending fate. The smell of death is in the air; the fear spreads amongst the animals waiting their turn as they see the one in front of them disappearing through an iron door.'
Photograph: Tommaso Ausili courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

L’Iris d’Or/ Professional Contemporary Issues winner. Italain photographer Tommaso Ausili received a $25,000 cash prize plus Sony digital SLR camera equipment
Photograph: Tommaso Ausili /Courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Professional Current Affairs winner: A man tries to run from gunfire from Madagascar President Marc Ravalomanana's offices in Antananarivo on 7 February 2009. 'After days of civil unrest, with factories and stores belonging to Madagascar’s president ablaze, Rajoelina, Madagascar city’s mayor (a 34-year-old former disc jockey) announced that Roindefo Monja, a politician from the Southwestern city of Tulear, would be the prime minister of his 'transitional government'
Photograph: Walter Astrada courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010/AFP

Professional Current Affairs winner: Two supporters of Antananarivo Mayor Andry Rajoelina take refuge behind a container as the police fire tear gas after a rally in the main avenue of the Madagascan capital Antananarivo on 16 February 2009
Photograph: Walter Astrada courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010/AFP

Professional Sport winner: Andy Murray of Great Britain plays a forehand in his fourth round match against Fernando Verdasco of Spain during day eight of the 2009 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on 26 January 2009 in Melbourne
Photograph: Scott Barbour courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010/Reportage by Getty Images

Professional Sport winner: Roger Federer of Switzerland plays a backhand in his fourth round match against Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic during day seven of the 2009 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on 25 January 2009 in Melbourne, Australia
Photograph: Scott Barbour courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010/Reportage by Getty Images

Professional Arts & Entertainment winner: Kate Winslet, Golden Globes, Los Angeles, US, 2009. On assignment for the New York Times Magazine, Paolo Pellegrin photographed eight of the contenders for the Oscars 2009.
Photograph: Paolo Pellegrin Neto courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010/Magnum Photos for New York Times Magazine

Professional Arts & Entertainment winner: Film Critics Awards, Los Angeles, 2009
Photograph: Paolo Pellegrin Neto courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010/Magnum Photos for New York Times Magazine

Advertising winner: 'Dirty mouth' campaign shot for the UK COI for an NHS and HM Customs advertising campaign warning of the dangers of buying contraband cigarettes. Shot using real bugs, rats and smoke
Photograph: Martin Brent courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Professional Fashion winner: Series of a children’s fashion story for a magazine taken in South Africa on a farm using children from local townships as models. 'A children’s fashion magazine commissioned me to photograph a fashion story to be shot in South Africa. They handed me a suitcase of colourful clothes and, after not too much persuasion, off I went.'
Photograph: David Handley courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010/Jackie Gibbs

Professional Fashion winner: Series of a children’s fashion story for a magazine taken in South Africa on a farm with native children
Photograph: David Handley courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010/Jackie Gibbs

Professional Music winner: 'This photo is from the Ashoura mourning ritual held in the town of Bijar in Kurdistan, a province of Iran located in the western part of the country. In the town of Bijar, marchers cover themselves in mud to show their grief through music. The Mourning of Muharram is an important ritual in the Shi’a branch of Islam. It takes place during Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is also called the Remembrance of Muharram'
Photograph: Mohammad Golchin courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Professional Architecture winner: Former investigation-prison of the GDR State Security (Stasi), Hohenschönhausen/Berlin Secretariat, prison-hospital
Photograph: Philipp Lohöfener courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Professional Architecture winner: Former investigation-prison of the GDR State Security (Stasi), Hohenschönhausen/Berlin Operating room, prison-hospital
Photograph: Philipp Lohöfener courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Professional Portrait winner: An actor in soap operas and patriotic movies and Mao double
Photograph: Tommaso Bonaventura courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Professional Portrait winner: An actor in soap operas and patriotic movies
Photograph: Tommaso Bonaventura courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010/Contrasto

Professional Conceptual & Constructed winner: Pejantan Black Geyser, Day 131, Western End, Madura Forest
Photograph: Renhui Zhao courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Professional Conceptual & Constructed winner: Iriamondi Cat, Day 60, 6km off Madura Forest 'Pulau Pejantan is a remote island of Indonesia. Nicknamed Sand Forest Island, Pulau Pejantan has unique geographical features and bio-diversity. Virtually undiscovered till June 2005, the island boasts a treasure trove of species that are found nowhere else in the world, from the sand worms which move like packs of snakes around the island’s dunes to the Lantern Fish which greet you in the sea before you reach the island.'
Photograph: Renhui Zhao courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Professional Natural History winner: The incredible art of silk. 'When we wear silk clothes, we enjoy the beauty and the feeling to the touch and yet we never ask where it comes from or how it’s made. Small insect craftsmen by the scientific name Bombyx mori – the silkworm – create these threads and the process is unknown to most people.'
Photograph: Pere Pascual courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Professional Landscape winner: 'The images show the direct viewpoint of the subject within the picture. We look at what the photographer - whether a press-photographer, nature photographer, enthusiast or professional - wants to take a picture of and therefore can imagine what this picture will look like and what the photographer wants to express.'
Photograph: Peter Franck courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010