Sony World Photography Awards: Professional - Conceptual

Winner: 'Soviet Photo' by Roman Pyatkovka, Ukraine. Images from the magazine 'Soviet Photo' and the photographers own work of the soviet period are spliced together in this series (Roman Pyatkovka/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner: 'Soviet Photo' by Roman Pyatkovka, Ukraine. The magazine was filled with communist propaganda but are used in this series with explicit images which could have meant imprisonment for the photographer (Roman Pyatkovka/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Second place: 'Fukushima, invisible pain' by Florian Ruiz, France. He said: "Within the natural environment and in the areas surrounding cities across Fukushima prefecture, I have captured the invisible pain of radiation." (Florian Ruiz/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Second place: 'Fukushima, invisible pain' by Florian Ruiz, France (Florian Ruiz/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Third place: 'Lie down' by Edurne Aguinaga, Spain. She said: "Lie Down is a surrealist collection of pictures that create the feeling of being upright on a vertical surface." (Edurne Aguinaga/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Third place: 'Lie down' by Edurne Aguinaga, Spain. She said: "Lie Down is a surrealist collection of pictures that create the feeling of being upright on a vertical surface." (Edurne Aguinaga/ Sony World Photography Awards)

'Morning sculptures' by Maia Flore, France (Maia Flore/ Sony World Photography Awards)

'Hopper redux' by Gail Albert Halaban, United States (Gail Albert Halaban/ Sony World Photography Awards)

'Running to the edge' by Julia Borissova, Russian Federation (Julia Borissova/ Sony World Photography Awards)

'Blind-man's bluff' by Sergey Varaksin, Russian Federation (Sergey Varaksin/ Sony World Photography Awards)

'You are the only one' by Jenny Magruder, United States (Jenny Magruder/ Sony World Photography Awards)