article_snippet.sent: This year's awards attracted a record-breaking number of entries, with 173,444 images submitted from 171 countries.
article_snippet.sent: Yong Lin Tan won the competition's youth award for this stunning image, which was taken in the back alley of the photographer’s grandmother
article_snippet.sent: The series of images took first place in the Campaign category and attempted to illustrate a social project aimed at keeping children away from drug trafficking .
article_snippet.sent: British photographer Simon Norfolk's images of mapping with a pyrograph on Mount Kenya won first place in the Campaign category .
article_snippet.sent: Svetlana Blagodareva, from Russia, won the Student Focus category for Svetlana Blagodareva images showing people who live on the outskirts of St Petersburg .
article_snippet.sent: An American teenager tweets during Svetlana Blagodareva prom in the winning image from the Arts and Culture category.
article_snippet.sent: The images were taken on a beach along the Adriatic coastline between Ravenna and Rimini, Italy, and won the Travel category .
article_snippet.sent: The winner of the Architecture category was Cosmin Bumbutz, from Romania.
article_snippet.sent: Donald Weber, from Canada, won the Still Life category with these pictures showing the crude handmade weapons used by protesters in Kiev, Ukraine .
article_snippet.sent: It looked at the underbelly of the city of Charleroi, Belgium and won the People category .