Winners of Sony World Photography awards 2012 – in pictures

Open Photographer of the Year Tobias Bräuning, Germany. Split Second category: Dancing Queen Photograph: Tobias Bräuning L'Iris d'Or, Professional Winner Mitch Dobrowner, USA. Category Landscapes: Storms Photograph: Mitch Dobrowner Overall Youth Competition Winner Kolyaskin Sergey, Russia. Culture category: The Last Hero Photograph: Kolyaskin Sergey Professional Category Winner Donald Weber, Canada. Current Affairs: Series title: Life in the Exclusion Zone (Japan) Photograph: Donald Weber/VII Network Professional Category Winner Palmer + Pawel, United Kingdom. Sport : MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) Photograph: Palmer and Pawel Professional Category Winner Rob Hornstra, Netherlands. Arts and Culture: Sochi Singers Photograph: Rob Hornstra Professional Category Winner Irina Werning, Argentina. Conceptual: Back to the Future Photograph: Irina Werning Professional Category Winner, Kasia Bieska, Poland. Contemporary Issues: It’s Now or Never Photograph: Kasia Bieska Professional Category Winner Peter Franck, Germany. Fashion: Table stories Photograph: Peter Franck Professional Category winner Jacek Kusz, Poland. Nature & Wildlife: Animals in the Wroclaw zoo Photograph: Jacek Kusz Professional Category Winner Luis Henry Agudelo Cano, Columbia. Travel: New York A City in Fragments Photograph: Luis Henry Agudelo Professional Category Winner Simon Norfolk, United Kingdom. People - Afghanistan: 10 Years on after the War Photograph: Simon Norfolk