It’s time to celebrate the lighter side of wildlife

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

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

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

Round Two People & Portraits

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

The UK winners of the EISA Maestro Photo Contest 2025 are Rebecca Elliott and Adam Ramjean. Here are their winning images