Today, photography is used as a vibrant visual language, exploring diverse topics and concepts through an amazing range of creative expressions. By design, the LensCulture Exposure Awards aim to celebrate this variety, seeking out the strongest examples across many genres and approaches to the medium. We hope this year's mix of 31 winners and finalists delights, surprises and inspires you, allowing you to appreciate photography in its endlessly inventive forms.

These works were selected from projects and single images submitted by photographers in over 120 countries on five continents. Our international jury of experts reviewed and discussed the submissions at length, and the final decisions were difficult to make because of the wealth of great material that was submitted by the many, many worthy photographers who are producing strong work all over the world. Read more »