Cold comfort: a polar bear chills out on his iceberg bed

The APOY judges choose their favourite images that didn’t make the top ten of our People & Portraits category

Round Two People & Portraits

Our selection of winning images from the Open Competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2025

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

How did your career start? I took an interest in birds when I was around four, saved money for my first binoculars at seven, got my first SLR at 12 and shot my first nature pictures for a national mag

If you’re planning to enter our Celebrating Colour round, which launches next week, take these tips from three of last year’s top ten photographers