AFRICAN VICTORIAN BEHNIA AND HOSSEIN

Tamary Kudita

Zimbabwean photographer Tamary won the open competition with this striking picture.

“With this image, I wanted to portray a hybrid AfricanVictorian: my way of probing the stereotypical contextualisation of the black female body,” she says. “Taking a Victorian dress and merging it with traditional Shona cooking utensils was my way of showing a multifaceted identity.”

Seyed Ali (Farzam) Saleh

In March 2020, in reaction to the Covid-19 outbreak, the Iranian government announced the immediate closure of all athletic venues, sports clubs and training centres. Following this, athletes took to training on the rooftops of their homes to maintain a degree of their physical and mental fitness and prowess.

Luis Tato

Desert locusts are the most destructive migratory pests in the world. Thriving in moist conditions in semi-arid to arid environments, billions of locusts have been feeding throughout East Africa, devouring everything in their path – and posing a huge threat to the food supply and livelihoods of millions of people.