Travel Photographer of the Year – the best shots from 2003-2012

2003 winner Miami Beach, Florida
Photograph: Peter Adams

2004 winner Indigenous Bajau children playing off Mabul Island, Sabah, Malaysia
Photograph: Pang Piow Kan

Winner 2005 'Got any eggs?' Havana, Cuba
Photograph: Lorne Resnick

2006 winner A bird descends through the mist to land on a chorton (stupa) in the Khumbu valley, Nepal
Photograph: Julian Love

2007 winner Finnmark plateau, northern Norway
Photograph: Cat Vinton

2008 winner Aspen trees and shoreline in winter at Francois lake, British Columbia, Canada
Photograph: Darwin Wiggett

2009 winner Going home at the end of the day in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The train can not accommodate everybody so the extras perch on the roof. Though some passengers prefer the roof for the simple reason that they don't have to pay
Photograph: GMB Akash

2010 winner The Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali
Photograph: Larry Louie

2011 winner Life in Tiébélé, the painted mud village of the Gurunsi people in southern Burkina Faso
Photograph: Louis Montrose

2012 winner Paris, France. 'French privacy laws now dictate that I had to ensure that no one was recognisable in the images,' says the photographer, 'which led me to the idea of silhouettes against an iconic background' Photograph: Craig Easton/TPOTY