Jodi Bieber, a South African photographer for Time magazine, won with this picture of Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old woman from Oruzgan province in Afghanistan. Aisha's story began when she fled back to her family after complaining of violent treatment from her husband. The Taliban arrived one night demanding that she face justice and Aisha's brother-in-law held her down while her husband sliced off her ears and then cut off her nose. Aisha was abandoned, but later rescued by aid workers and the US military. After time in a women's refuge in Kabul, she was taken to the US, where she now lives. Jury chair David Burnett said about the photo: 'This could become one of those pictures – and we have maybe just 10 in our lifetime – where if somebody says "you know, that picture of a girl" you know exactly which one they're talking about' Photograph: Jodi Bieber/Institute for Time
Daniele Tamagni, a freelance photographer based in Italy, won with the series The Flying Cholitas, about the sport of lucha libre (Bolivian wrestling) Photograph: Daniele Tamagni
Ed Kashi from the US won with this portrait of nine-year-old Nguyen Thi Ly, who suffers from Agent Orange disabilities, in Da Nang, Vietnam Photograph: Ed Kashi
Photographer Joost van den Broek, based in the Netherlands, won with this photo of a cadet on the Russian tall ship Kruzenshtern Photograph: Joost van den Broek
Adam Pretty photographed Thomas Daley of Britain competing in the preliminary of the men's 3m springboard diving event during the Youth Olympics at Toa Payoh swimming complex, Singapore, on 22 August 2010
Photograph: Adam Pretty/AFP/Getty Images
Omar Feisal from Somalia shows us a man carrying a shark through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, 23 September 2010 Photograph: Omar Feisal
Martin Roemers from the Netherlands won with his series Metropolis, about life in megacities Photograph: Martin Roemers/AP
Reuters photographer Andrew Biraj, based in Bangladesh, won with this picture of an overcrowded train approaching a station in Dhaka, 16 November 2010 Photograph: Andrew Biraj
Riccardo Venturi from Italy shows us Old Iron Market burning in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 18 January 2010
Photograph: Riccardo Venturi
Reinhard Dirscherl, a German freelance photographer, won with this picture of Atlantic sailfish attacking Spanish sardines, off the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico Photograph: Reinhard Dirscherl
National Geographic photographer Stefano Unterthiner from Italy has won with this picture of Whooper swans at dawn, taken in Hokkaido, Japan in January 2010 Photograph: Stefano Unterthiner
Christophe Archambault won with his dramatic series shot in the ash-covered village of Cemoro Lawang near the Mount Bromo volcano in Indonesia's Java island. An Indonesian man is shown wearing a mask to avoid inhaling volcanic ash Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images
Another image from Archambault's series on the active Mount Bromo volcano in eastern Java Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images
Daniel Berehulak won with his series in Pakistan. Flood victims scramble for food from a Pakistan army helicopter during relief operations in Dadu, Pakistan as they battle the downwash on 13 September 2010
Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
Irish photographer Seamus Murphy won with a picture of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, in London on 30 September 2010 Photograph: Seamus Murphy
Ed Ou, a Getty Images photographer based in Canada, won with his story Escape from Somalia. In this picture, four Somali refugees en route to Yemen sleep in the desert after travelling all night in pouring rain in Somaliland, 15 March 2010
Photograph: Ed Ou
Wolfram Hahn, a freelance photographer based in Germany, won with his series Self-portraits for Social Networks Photograph: HO/Wolfram Hahn
Corentin Fohlen, a Fedephoto photographer based in France, won the category with this picture of anti-government riots in Bangkok, Thailand in May 2010 Photograph: Corentin Fohlen
