Sony World Photography Awards: Professional winners

Photographer of the Year and winner of the People category: 'One day in history' by Andrea Gjestvang, Norway. The project follows the children and youths who survived the massacre on the island of Utøya, Norway. Pictured is Iselin Rose Borch, 15, and her dog who sleeps with her at night to help ward off the nightmares from that tragic day (Andrea Gjestvang/ Moment/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Photographer of the Year and winner of the People category: 'One day in history' by Andrea Gjestvang, Norway. Pictured is Ylva Schwenke, 15, was shot in the shoulder, stomach and in both her thighs. She said: “I bear my scares with dignity, because I got them standing for something I believe in." (Andrea Gjestvang/ Moment/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Photographer of the Year and winner of the People category: 'One Day in History' by Andrea Gjestvang, Norway. The project follows the children and youth who survived the massacre on the island of Utøya, Norway. Pictured is Alexander Sandberg, 16, who hid under a couch in the school house. He said: "The time after felt quiet. I thought about it almost all the time. I thought about what had happened, and what could have happened if I had done this instead of that. After a while I had to force myself to think in other directions." (Andrea Gjestvang/ Moment/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Photographer of the Year and winner of the People category: 'One Day in History' by Andrea Gjestvang, Norway. The project follows the children and youth who survived the massacre on the island of Utøya, Norway. Pictured is Cecilie Herlovsen, 17, who was shot in the arm, shoulder and chin. She said: "My life changed in more than one way. In primary school, kids used to make fun of me. I felt sad and I retreated completely into myself. After Utøya, I have managed to return to the real me. Of course there are moments when I'm sad about what happened. But generally I'm more positive, social and I appreciate life." (Andrea Gjestvang/ Moment/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Contemporary Issues category: 'Encerrados' by Valerio Bispuri, Italy. "I spent 10 years traveling for South-America jails. A different and complex world in which violence and abuse are part of convicts’ life. I saw, during the time, how the convicts try to find a space similar to that one they had outside jails. They try to preserve their dignity." (Valerio Bispuri. Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Contemporary Issues category: 'Encerrados' by Valerio Bispuri, Italy. He added: "I went around for 74 male and female jails in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela. Every jail was a way to tell the country from inside and outside." (Valerio Bispuri. Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of Arts and Culture: 'The Limousine' by Myriam Meloni, Italy. She said: "A luxury emblem used to transport politicians and rock stars in the '80s, nowadays the limousine turned into an icon of the Argentinean popular culture. Brides in their white dresses, starlets television, fifteen years old celebrating their birthdays, and future husbands: they all share the same sensation of sitting one night on an electric blue Ford Fairlane from 1972." (Myriam Meloni/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of Arts and Culture: 'The Limousine' by Myriam Meloni, Italy. She added: "'The limousine' explores a limited space in which many diverse things can happen. Between drunken, striptease, tears and laughter, the limousine is transformed into the scenario of ordinary people that use the dark tinted windows to release their fantasies and their transgression, under the curiosity of passersby." (Mayriam Meloni/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Campaign category: 'Jim Rickey' by Christian Aslund, Sweden. The images were shot in Hong Kong for the shoe brand Jim Rickey. The photographer had to shoot from skyscrapers toward the ground and used a telephoto lens to make the image look as flat at possible (Christian Aslund/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Campaign category: 'Jim Rickey' by Christian Aslund, Sweden. The images were shot in Hong Kong for the shoe brand Jim Rickey. The photographer had to shoot from skyscrapers toward the ground and used a telephoto lens to make the image look as flat at possible (Christian Aslund/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Current Affairs category: 'Personality and society. Reality vs illusions' by Ilya Pitalev, Russian Federation. North Korean soldiers stand next to civilians at the Kim Il Sung Stadium during celebrations of the centennial birthday of the founder of their state, Kim Il Sung (Ilya Pitalev/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Current Affairs category: 'Personality and society. Reality vs illusions' by Ilya Pitalev, Russian Federation, shot in North Korea (Ilya Pitalev/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner: 'A portrait of the Matterhorn' by Nened Saljic, Croatia. He said: "When I was young, I had long fantasized about climbing the Matterhorn but I never really had the chance. The Matterhorn was the last great Alpine peak to be conquered and its first ascent in 1865 marked the end of the golden age of alpinism. Its North Face, which is on all images, is amongst the "Three Great Problems" in the Alps and was not climbed until 1931." (Nenad Saljic, Croatia, Professional Landscape, 2013 Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner: 'A portrait of the Matterhorn' by Nened Saljic, Croatia. He added: "This portfolio is a kind of memento to all climbers who dared to go there and for those who never returned." (Nenad Saljic, Croatia, Professional Landscape, 2013 Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Fashion and Beauty category: 'i-D Iceland' by Klaus Thymann, Denmark. He said: "The story was photographed in the remote east coast of Iceland, on and around the glacier lake of Vatnajokull named Jokulsarlon." (Klaus Thymann/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Fashion and Beauty category: 'i-D Iceland' by Klaus Thymann, Denmark. He said: "The story was photographed in the remote east coast of Iceland, on and around the glacier lake of Vatnajokull named Jokulsarlon." (Klaus Thymann/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Sport category: 'Olympic Journey' by Adam Pretty, Australia. Usain Bolt of Jamaica races ahead of his competitors to win the Men's 100m Final (Adam Pretty/ Getty Images/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Sport category: 'Olympic Journey' by Adam Pretty, Australia. Melissa Wu of Australia practices during a 10m platform diving training session ahead of the start of the Olympic Games (Adam Pretty/ Getty Images/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Lifestyle category: 'Summer holiday' by Alice Caputo, Italy. The snaps show her banal and monotonous family holiday to the seaside in Liguria, Italy (Alice Caputo/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Lifestyle category: 'Summer holiday' by Alice Caputo, Italy. The snaps show her banal and monotonous family holiday to the seaside in Liguria, Italy (Alice Caputo/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Portraiture category: 'Six degrees of Copenhagen' by Jens Juul, Denmark. He said: "Taking its point of departure in the idea that every person on Earth is connected in the sixth degree, this series of photos depicts human connections through the city of Copenhagen. The set up is that I portray random people that I engage with in the streets, and that these chance meetings end up with me taking highly personal photos of these people, who then each send me on to another person in their network, who I can portray, who then gives me the name of another person." (Jens Juul/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Portraiture category: 'Six degrees of Copenhagen' by Jens Juul, Denmark (Jens Juul/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Architecture category: 'Corpus Christi' by Fabrice Fouillet, France. He said: "This series highlights the architectural aesthetic of these new places of worship, a genuine creative inspiration in modern religious architecture." (Sony World Photography Awards/ Fabrice Fouillet)

Winner of the Architecture category: 'Corpus Christi' by Fabrice Fouillet, France. He said: "This series highlights the architectural aesthetic of these new places of worship, a genuine creative inspiration in modern religious architecture." (Sony World Photography Awards/ Fabrice Fouillet)

Winner of the Conceptual category: '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 of the conceptual category: '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)

Winner of the Travel category: 'Journey to Jerusalem of Africa-Lalibela, Ethiopia' by Gali Tibbon, Israel (Gali Tibbon/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of the Travel category: 'Journey to Jerusalem of Africa-Lalibela, Ethiopia' by Gali Tibbon, Israel. Every year just before Christmas day (Julian calendar) thousands of pious Christian Orthodox worshippers make a pilgrimage to Lalibela, a small town in Ethiopia's highlands, known as Jerusalem of Africa or Black Jerusalem. Lalibela is famous for its 13th century monolithic churches, carved out of the living rock and one of the world's great wonders. (Gali Tibbon/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of Still Life: 'Migrant' by Vanessa Colareta, Peru. She said: "'Migrant' uses still life to talk about a current event: the migration of women in Spain. This work is inspired by the symbolism of the still life of Spanish Golden Age to photographically represent hybrid social processes such as globalization and migration." (Vanessa Colareta/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of Still Life: 'Migrant' by Vanessa Colareta, Peru (Vanessa Colareta/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of Nature and Wildlife: 'Moment' by Satoru Kondo, Japan. He said: "A flower is not a flower. It's like a woman. A flower's life is transient, but beautiful." (Satoru Kondo/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Winner of Nature and Wildlife: 'Moment' by Satoru Kondo, Japan (Satoru Kondo/ Sony World Photography Awards)