Sony World Photography awards 2012 has announced its overall competition winners and professional category winners. The images can be seen at Somerset House, London, from 27 April until 20 May 2012. View a selection of the winning images here:
Open Photographer of the Year Tobias Bräuning, Germany. Split Second category: Dancing Queen
L'Iris d'Or, Professional Winner Mitch Dobrowner, USA. Category Landscapes: Storms
Overall Youth Competition Winner Kolyaskin Sergey, Russia. Culture category: The Last Hero
Professional Category Winner Donald Weber, Canada. Current Affairs: Series title: Life in the Exclusion Zone (Japan)
Professional Category Winner Palmer + Pawel, United Kingdom. Sport : MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)
Professional Category Winner Rob Hornstra, Netherlands. Arts and Culture: Sochi Singers
Professional Category Winner Irina Werning, Argentina. Conceptual: Back to the Future
Professional Category Winner, Kasia Bieska, Poland. Contemporary Issues: It’s Now or Never
Professional Category Winner Peter Franck, Germany. Fashion: Table stories
Professional Category winner Jacek Kusz, Poland. Nature & Wildlife: Animals in the Wroclaw zoo
Professional Category Winner Luis Henry Agudelo Cano, Columbia. Travel: New York A City in Fragments
Professional Category Winner Simon Norfolk, United Kingdom. People - Afghanistan: 10 Years on after the War
