Wet dogs and beauty queens: Sony world photography awards – in pictures

Photograph: Sara Naomi Lewkowicz – winner, L’Iris d’Or
Category: Contemporary issues
Series Name: Shane and Maggie
‘One month into their courtship, Shane had Maggie’s name tattooed on his neck in large black letters’
© Sara Naomi Lewkowicz / Getty Reportage, US, Winner, Contemporary Issues, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Ricardo Teles
Category: Travel
Series Name: Road of Grains
‘Campo Novo do Parecis’
© Ricardo Teles, Brazil, Winner, Travel, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Myriam Meloni
Category: Lifestyle
Series Name: Behind the Absence
‘Iuana (59) with one of her grandsons at her home in the village of Lui Vadul Isac. Iuana raises her three grandsons by herself as her daughter, Ana, has been working at a meat factory in Dortmund, Germany, for the past three years’
© Myriam Meloni, Italy, Winner, Lifestyle, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Michael Nichols
Category: Nature and Wildlife
Series Name: The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion
‘We habituated the Vumbi pride to a remote-controlled toy camera car and we were able to make very intimate ground-level images. This gave a dignified insight into lion social behavior. The fragile car would morph into a rugged robot tank as the assignment went on.’
© Michael Nichols / National Geographic Society, US, Winner, Nature & Wildlife, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Mario Wezel
Category: People
Series Name: One in Eight Hundred
‘Untitled’
© Mario Wezel, Germany, Winner, People, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Ludovic Maillard
Category: Architecture
Series Name: Typology of concrete
‘Echangeur de la Porte de la chapelle, Boulevard Périphérique de Paris’
© Ludovic Maillard / Babel Photo, France, Winner, Architecture, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Viviana Peretti
Category: Arts & Culture
Series Name: Dancing Like a Woman
‘Colombian drag queen and Miss Bambuco Gay 2012’
© Viviana Peretti, Italy, Winner, Arts & Culture, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Thomas Brummett
Category: Conceptual
Series Name: Light Projections
‘Light Projection 3 8x10”’
© Thomas Brummett, US, Winner, Conceptual, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Spencer Murphy
Category: Campaign
Series Name: Channel 4 Racing - The Original Extreme Sport
‘Ruby Walsh’
© Spencer Murphy / 4Creative, UK, Winner, Campaign, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Sophie Gamand
Category: Portraiture
Series name:Wet Dogs
‘Caught mid bath, a wet dog tries to save the last bit of dignity he has’
© Sophie Gamand, France, Winner, Portraiture, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Salvatore Di Gregorio
Category: Sport
Series name: Red Kushti: An Old Fight.
‘Untitled’
© Salvatore Di Gregorio, Italy, Winner, Sport, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Roei Greenberg
Category: Landscape
Series Name: Israeli Landscape
‘A trail at Ein zeitim (olive spring) national park’
© Roei Greenberg, Israel, Winner, Landscape, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Guy Martin
Category: Current Affairs
Series name: Gezi Park
‘Women watch police fire tear gas canisters close to where they are standing. Gezi Park, Istanbul’
© Guy Martin / Panos, UK, Winner, Current Affairs, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards

Photograph: Amanda Harman
Category: Still life
Series Name: Garden Stories, Hidden Labours
© Amanda Harman, UK, Winner, Still Life, Professional Competition, 2014 Sony World Photography Awards