The other prize winners explore a hidden story about disability, sex and wellbeing, the role robots could play in helping to care for society’s ageing populations and how researchers are identifying zoonotic diseases before they become a pandemic threat.

We relaunched the Wellcome Photography Prize in 2018 with an open call for entries in four new categories – Social Perspectives, Hidden Worlds, Medicine in Focus and a thematic category for the 2019 prize, Outbreaks. We received more than 6,000 entries.

The winning images in the Wellcome Photography Prize 2019 were chosen from 28 shortlisted images that powerfully capture the impact of disease outbreaks, advances in science and medicine, and personal stories of people living with illness.