Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishThe winners of the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards have been revealed in the 18th annual competition. British photographer Zed Nelson picks up the prestigious Photographer of the Year award for his incredible series, The Anthropocene Illusion. Monica Allende, chair of the 2025 professional jury, describes Zed’s work as ‘striking’ and says that the jury ‘applauds’ the photographer’s ‘ability to translate complex environmental issues into striking visual narratives’. She says: ‘The Anthropocene Illusion illustrates a world where the real and the artificial blur, where the wild survives in controlled enclosures, and where human nostalgia for nature is expressed through spectacle rather than action.’ The Sony World Photography Awards exhibition is currently on show at Somerset House in London until May 5, with over 300 images on display. Scroll down to see some of Zed’s winning images as well as photos from the rest of the competition… French photographer Olivier Unia, wins the Open Competition with this incredible photo taken during a ‘traditional Moroccan tbourida’ – an equestrian performance. With this image, the photographer hoped to show how ‘dangerous’ the events can be Winner of the Youth Photographer of the Year Award, Daniel Dian – Ji Wu from Taiwan, took this beautiful photo during ‘golden hour’ at Venice Beach Skatepark in Los Angeles. He says the image made him feel ‘a sense of passion and freedom’ Toby Binder, a photographer from Germany, took this image in Belfast and wins the Documentary Projects category. Binder says ‘there is hardly any other country in Europe where a past conflict is still as present in daily life as it is in Northern Ireland’. He aims to document the lives of ‘young people’ in his work Italian photographer, Chantal Pinzi, wins the Sport category with her collection of images of female skateboarders in India. Titled Shred the Patriarchy, the breathtaking photographs demonstrate how the women ‘challenge stereotypes’ and ‘fight marginalization’ Rhiannon Adam wins the Creative category with this haunting image of the space industry. Adam had been chosen to be a participant on a week-long lunar mission on Space X’s Starship, but the mission was ‘abruptly cancelled’ in 2024 The winner of the Portraiture category, Brazilian photographer Gui Christ took these ‘intimate’ photos to ‘illustrate the resilience of Afro-Brazilian communities in the face of local religious intolerance’. The photographer says the project aims to ‘challenge prejudice’ and ‘celebrate’ the community’s ‘spiritual traditions’ Canadian photographer Ulana Switucha wins the Architecture and Design category with these unusual images of toilets in Tokyo, Japan. Switucha’s project shows that the buildings are ‘works of art’ as well as toilets Peruvian photographer, Nicolas Garrido Huguet, wins the Environment category with this powerful image of artisans in Cusco, Peru. The women pictured are using natural dyeing techniques for textiles Japanese photographer Seido Kino wins the Landscape category for his poignant project which ‘invites viewers to consider what it means for a country to grow’. Taken in Japan, the photos look at how the country has changed by overlaying archival photos from the 1940s – 60s with current scenes of the same location Peruvian photographer Micaela Valdivia Medina wins the Student Photographer of the Year award for this poignant photo, which is one of a series exploring the ‘complexity of female prison spaces’. The photos were taken at several prisons in Chile This powerful image is one of a series taken by Peruvian photographer, Micaela Valdivia Medina, at female prisons in Chile The winner of the Photographer of the Year award, British photographer Zed Nelson took this striking image at Shanghai Wild Animal Park in China. In his photos, Zed aims to explore how humans ‘immerse’ themselves in ‘increasingly choreographed and simulated environments to mask’ their ‘destructive impact on the natural world’ Zed Nelson, the winner of the overall Photographer of the Year Award, took this powerful image. He says: ‘While we devastate the world around us, we have become masters of a stage-managed, artificial “experience” of nature’
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