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NINTCHDBPICT001069323689Camille Nivollet, France. Teenagers in St Nazaire, France, who are either excluded from school or never enrolled. Instead they run their own experimental school with their teachers (Shortlist, Perspectives)camille nivollet

NINTCHDBPICT001069299279Seamus Murphy, Ireland. A soldier at Fort Riley, a US army base in Kansas. The image is from a series that highlights the similarities of life in postindustrial America and Russia (Shortlist, Documentary Projects)SEAMUS MURPHY

NINTCHDBPICT001069299284Liam Man, UK. An aerial view of the disappearing Leones Glacier in Patagonia, Chile, where Man captured the solar eclipse pictured in the opening image (Shortlist, Landscapes)Liam man

NINTCHDBPICT001069299304Ben Brooks, UK. The palm trees of South Central Los Angeles are given a reddish hue thanks to infrared film. The colour is associated with the notorious local “Bloods” gang (Finalist, Creative)Ben Brooks

NINTCHDBPICT001069299300Colin Delfosse, Belgium. The performance artist Junior Mungongu wearing a costume made from masks, on the streets of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Finalist, Documentary Projects)Colin delfosse

NINTCHDBPICT001069299177James Ross, UK. Ross’s intimate portraits of crows were taken as they scavenged for food on the promenade in his childhood home town, Whitley Bay, near Newcastle (Shortlist, Wildlife and Nature)James Ross

NINTCHDBPICT001069299275Seungho Kim, South Korea. South Korea’s low birth rate — less than one child per woman — means many couples keep pets. Kim’s daughter, Sun, is growing up with a pomeranian (Finalist, Perspectives)seungho kim

NINTCHDBPICT001069299288Hossein Sadri Nobarzad, Iran. These abandoned boats once entertained families on Lake Urmia, formerly Iran’s largest saltwater lake, which has mostly dried up following decades of drought (Shortlist, Environment)hossein sadri nobarzad

Amy, inked, Horden, UK // Ed Alcock / MYOPEd Alcock, UK. Taken from a documentary project on life in the former mining village of Horden, Co Durham. Amy had moved there to “escape a difficult situation at home” (Shortlist, Portraiture)Ed Alcock