Landscape category winner and photographer of the year: Frederik Buyckx

Located in northern Montenegro, this image captured the purity of weather along with its power over people.

Architecture category, second place: Julien Chatelin

Locals are enjoying a new luxury hot spring spa complex in Fuling, China; this shows the industrial development of the city.

Contemporary issues category, winner: Tasneem Alsultan

This touching photo captures the photographer’s struggles as a Saudi single mother. ‘I’ve made peace with the sacrifices I’ve had to make, but I managed to find happiness. I was married at the age of 17, but living as a single parent for the final six years of an unhappy 10-year marriage. Many family members commented on how foolish I was to ask for a divorce. Only later did I realise that there were many Saudi women who had had similar experiences.’

Natural world category, winner: Will Burrard-Lucas

‘To show hyenas in their element, I wanted to photograph them at night. The stars in Africa are so beautiful that I also wanted to include them in my image. I used a remote-control “BeetleCam” to position my camera on the ground so I could photograph the hyena with the beautiful starry sky behind. This is a single exposure. I lit the hyena with two wireless off-camera flashes and used a long shutter speed to expose the stars.’

Architecture category, winner: Dongni

This aerial view shows the complexity of the Chinese highways.

Sport category, winner: Yuan Peng

Liu Yujie and Liu Bungqing are two young sportsmen who have been training really hard ever since their first years in Jining, China.

Current affairs and news category, winner: Alessio Romenzi

Libyan forces fighters are inspecting what used to be the Ouagadougou conference center. The self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State (Libya) took about 500 American airstrikes and hundreds of victims so far.

Contemporary issues category, second place: Li Song

Li Hang is a young boy struggling with the Prader-Will syndrome in Changchun, China. The main symptom of the disease is insatiable hunger. Hand has been treated with traditional medicine, acupuncture, fire treatment and therapy.