Nyaueth by Peter Zelewski – £2,000 third prize winner. This was taken near London’s Oxford Street as part of Zelewski’s series Beautiful Strangers. Zelewski explains: ‘The aim of Beautiful Strangers is to challenge the concept of traditional beauty with a series of spontaneous street portraits of everyday citizens who show character, uniqueness and a special inner quality’. (Photo by Peter Zelewski/Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2015)

Artists wearing face shields perform during a ceremony held by the Bangkok National Museum to celebrate the return of two ancient relics, believed to have been stolen from Thailand about 60 years ago, from the United States, in Bangkok, Thailand on May 31, 2021. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

A family dressed in traditional chinese clothes celebrates the Chinese New Year in Chinatown in Bangkok, Thailand February 8, 2016. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)

A mother and her daughter shop for bananas at a market in Bangkok, Thailand, March 31, 2016. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

A baby Sumatran orangutan is bathed after arriving at a wildlife center at Ratchaburi province in Thailand September 13, 2017. (Photo by Kerek Wongsa/Reuters)

A woman walks with a squirrel on her shoulder at Maeklong market at the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand September 20, 2016. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)

A family feeds sheep on a farm for tourists in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand on September 14, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

Two cocks are trained for a fight in a village in Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand January 10, 2017. (Photo by Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)