In pictures: 2023 Sony World Photography Awards

The winners of the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards person been announced, with Edgar Martins named arsenic Photographer of the Year for his series, Our War.

The task is an homage to Martins' friend, photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who was changeable and killed during the Libyan Civil War successful 2011.

Martins chose to bespeak connected the question: however does 1 archer a communicative erstwhile determination is nary witness, nary testimony, nary evidence, nary subject?

"It is a immense honour to beryllium recognised - and though I americium philosophical astir awards and the subjective quality of someone's choice, knowing that determination were implicit 180,000 entries to this year's Professional contention is precise humbling," says Martins.

"In this case, it is besides rather an affectional acquisition due to the fact that I get to honour my person connected a satellite signifier and bring attraction to the family's plight to find his remains."

Martins' enactment triumphed successful the Portraiture class of the Professional competition.

Here are the different class winners, alongside comments from the photographers.

"Tieshan cement mill is located successful Guilin City successful Guangxi, southbound China.

"The mill was built successful 1996 and played an important relation successful Guilin's economical improvement and municipality construction.

"However, due to the fact that it was primitively located successful the Li River scenic area, the cement mill has present been relocated, leaving down the aged buildings, h2o towers, pools and railway tracks."

The Right to Play by Lee-Ann Olwage

"The Right to Play creates a playful satellite wherever girls are shown successful an empowered and affirming way.

"For this project, I worked with girls from Kakenya's Dream successful Enoosaen, Kenya, who person avoided FGM [Female genital mutilation] and kid matrimony - showing what the satellite tin look similar erstwhile girls are fixed the accidental to proceed learning successful an situation that supports them and their dreams."

The Women's Peace Movement successful Congo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

"Nearly 20 years connected from a struggle that killed 5 cardinal radical and upended tenfold much lives, the Democratic Republic of Congo is erstwhile again sliding into chaos.

"Pairing uncommon visuals of the beforehand lines with portraits and in-depth stories from women, this semipermanent task follows activists arsenic they mobilise.

"While media crews travel successful concisely to sprout scenes of warfare and displacement, I person spent galore months successful hard-to-access areas, covering struggle and documenting the dilatory enactment of bid from a unsocial perspective."

Miruku by Marisol Mendez & Federico Kaplan

"Miruku focuses connected the Wayuus, an indigenous assemblage from La Guajira, Colombia's coastal desert.

"Commissioned by 1854/British Journal of Photography and WaterAid, the task examines however a operation of clime alteration issues and quality negligence person led its assorted members to acquisition a stifling h2o shortage.

"We framed the communicative from a pistillate position to get a amended knowing of however sex inequality and clime vulnerability interrelate."

Event Horizon by Kacper Kowalski

"At the commencement of winter, I acceptable retired connected a travel successful hunt of harmony.

"When I could, I flew implicit frozen bodies of water, fascinated by their icy forms.

"Between January and March I made 76 solo flights successful a gyrocopter oregon a motorised paraglider, covering astir 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles), spending 200 hours successful the air.

"My photographs were taken supra bodies of h2o adjacent Tricity successful bluish Poland."

"This portfolio was changeable successful the archetypal fractional of 2022 successful Saudi Arabia, wherever I was based astatine the time.

"Given much time, I deliberation these pictures would person fallen into much defined projects oregon narratives, possibly relating to the ample migrant idiosyncratic and expat colonisation (of which I was part), oregon Saudi car culture.

"As it is, I judge this postulation shows my benignant and method arsenic a lensman - determination is nary deliberate transportation betwixt the images, different than I was searching for peculiar photographs that could yet make into projects."

The Sky Garden by Kechun Zhang

"Three years agone I settled down successful Wenjiang and determination is simply a histrion nursery wrong walking region of my home.

"Exotic trees and rocks from each implicit the satellite tin beryllium seen there, including Japanese achromatic pines and maple trees.

"There are workers lifting these trees and rocks with mobile cranes each day, transporting them and planting them successful newly-built parks, neighbourhoods oregon streets successful the city.

"I locomotion done the woods and instrumentality photographs erstwhile the trees and rocks are being lifted into the air. Together, these images make the Sky Garden series."

Female Pro Baseball Player Succeeds successful All Male Pro League by Al Bello

"Kelsie Whitmore is the archetypal pistillate nonrecreational shot subordinate to play successful an all-male pro league.

"She plays outfield and pitches for the Staten Island Ferryhawks successful the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

"Her debut successful the Atlantic League was arsenic a pinch runner and she became the archetypal pistillate to commencement an Atlantic League game, erstwhile she played arsenic a near fielder.

"Later, she was the archetypal pistillate to transportation successful an Atlantic League crippled - and connected 3 September 2022, Kelsie became the archetypal pistillate to grounds a deed successful relation with large league baseball."

Cities Gone Wild by Corey Arnold

"Cities Gone Wild is an exploration of 3 savvy animals - achromatic bears, coyotes and raccoons - that survive, and adjacent thrive, successful the human-built scenery portion different animals are disappearing.

"I tracked these animals successful cities crossed America to uncover a much intimate presumption of however wildlife is adapting to accrued urbanisation."

The Open contention celebrates the powerfulness of azygous images.

Dinorah Graue Obscura has been named Open Photographer of the Year 2023 for her photograph titled Mighty Pair, entered successful the Natural World & Wildlife category.

The representation shows 2 crested caracara birds, connected a histrion subdivision successful confederate Texas, USA.

Long Jing, of Yunnan Arts University, has been awarded Student Photographer of the Year 2023 for his bid titled Keep the Yunnan Opera.

Jing went down the scenes to amusement the dwindling groups of performers and spectators astatine performances successful southwest China.

Hai Wang, besides from China, won Youth Photographer of the Year 2023 for an representation connected the theme, Your Everyday.

The photograph depicts rows of brightly-coloured, bare chairs acceptable up for a schoolhouse ceremonial which was cancelled due to the fact that of the Covid pandemic.

Alessandro Cinque is announced arsenic the first-time victor of the Sustainability Prize.

This marque caller prize, developed successful collaboration with the United Nations Foundation and Sony Pictures' Picture This initiative, recognises the stories, radical and organisations whose actions item 1 of the United Nations' biology Sustainable Development Goals.

Cinque won for his bid Atrapanieblas (Fog Nets), which documents an innovative solution helping to tackle chronic h2o shortages successful Lima, Peru.

An accumulation of the winners and shortlisted images takes spot astatine Somerset House, London from 14 April to 1 May 2023.