Now in its 15th year, the Sony World Photography Awards returns to celebrate contemporary photography and the ways the arts reflect the world around us. Here is a selection of the images from the winners of this year's national awards in the Environment and Documentary Projects categories.
The finalists for the Professional competition of Sony World Photography Awards 2022 have been revealed, with the shortlisted images putting issues like climate change and the Covid crisis in focus.
The photographers who took them are clearly at the very top of their game, as they were picked out from more than 156,000 pictures entered into the professional competition s 10 categories.
Find out who the World Photography Organisation chose as the finalists in the hotly-contested Professional competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2022.