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Caroline Thanh Hương

The beautiful and the bizarre come together in the world’s greatest photographs: Competition shortlist features everything from gorgeous skylines to cheeky monkeys 

DAILY MAIL UK                        Published: 00:01 GMT, 24 February 2015 | Updated: 00:19 GMT, 24 February 2015

In a world so vast we can never hope to experience more than the tiniest fraction of its wonders, photography offers us a chance to witness lives beyond our own horizons. These incredible pictures are the cream of the cream of this year's collective photographic opus, the selected shortlisted entrants to this year's edition of the Sony World Photography Awards.
Documenting the entire breadth of visual experience, from human interest to landscape via nature and social justice, the 173,444 entries from 171 countries were the most in the competition's history.
Those in the awards’ Professional categories will now compete for a $25,000 prize and the coveted L’Iris d’Or/ Photographer of the Year title. Winners will be announced at the Sony World Photography Awards Gala Ceremony on April 23, 2015.

Poverty: A little beggar girl with her monkey on the Chennai beach is an entrant into the Open Travel category of the Sony World Photography Awards by French photographer Loulia Chvetsova. The contest singles out the best photos taken around the world over the past year

Development: Once a dirt road, this now paved, lit road leads from Kangkar Baru to the main road to Yong Peng town, Johor, Malaysia.

Camel train: Italian photographer Enrico Madini entered this sumptuous photograph of a salt caravan travelling through the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, near the border with Eritrea and Djibouti, in the Travel category of the Open competition

Contrasts: A pelican preens its fathers as it perches atop a corroded streetlight in front of the skyline of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Vivid: This shot of Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring, by Janssen Todorov, is in the Open, Nature and Wildlife category of the contest

Ivan Turukhano from Russia said of his entry: 'Unfortunately many cities and towns now may lose their authenticity because of spread of ugly modern industrial architecture. I would like to draw world's attention to this problem. People shouldn't live in inharmonious environment'

Joy amid hardship: Ata Mohammad Adnan, of Bangladesh, said his photo shows 'two of my young neighbours from the slum nearby enjoying themselves in the rain.' His image is entered into the Split Second category

Fantastic nature: Pink butterflies emerge from the ether in this photograph taken in Indonesia by Harfian Herdi, using a very narrow depth of field. The photograph is entered into the Nature and Wildlife category of the competition

Competition: A triathlete leaps over the finish line of a race in this photo submitted by Cesar March of Spain to the Split Second category

More camels: A salt caravan makes its way from Lake Assal to Mekele in Ethiopa on a trade route that goes back 2,000 years, in this photo taken by Lebanese photographer Tarek Touma and entered into the competition's Open Split Second category

Industrial heartland: British photographer Norman Quinn entered this shot into the Panoramic category of the Open competition, showing the Samson & Goliath cranes at Harland & Wolff Docks in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Big skies: Marcio Cabral of Brazil entered this incredible vista of the Milky Way over a field of Paepalanthus flowers into the same category

Fiery: Simon Norfolk's photo showing lines of fire around a few wooden buildings atop the snow-capped Mount Kenya is in the Pro Landscape category. The fire lines indicate where the front of the rapidly disappearing Lewis Glacier was at various times in the recent past

Death of a river: Every year, during the dry season, the Ganges waters on the Bangladesh Border drys up due to the Farakka Dam being closed on the Indian border. Getty photographer took the photo as part of a series documenting the changes the Ganges is going through

Butterflies: The link to the delicate insects to this photo was their symbolic association with drifting souls, which Swiss photographer Scott Typaldos saw as an apt theme for his work on the mental condition. This shot shows a patient waiting in an institution

First Sight: Blind girls Sonia and Anita Singh, 12 and five respectively, with their mother after they underwent an operation to treat their congenital cataract blindness, which is an easily cured problem that leaves millions of people without sight who can't afford treatment

Success: Sonia and Anita pictured in a field of long grass, enjoying the sights after the surgery enabled them to see for the first time

Fun times: South Korean boys rinse off the chlorine in the Caribbean Bay section of Everland, the country's largest theme park

Brick Makers: Children resting after breakfast in Nabadwip, West Bengal. 'Every day of the year preparing for the rain season, groups of families gather to make bricks at large factories in remote villages all over India,' said Venezuelan photographer Mahadev Rojas Torres

A child's honesty: 'Just a glance is able to bare our past and reveal our dreams,' writes Guatemalan photographer Marco Toc of this photo

No smoking here: Russian police are seen in this photo by Daniil Maksyukov and entered into the Youth Portraiture category

Kadriye aunt's wools: A woman spins wool in preparation for the Turkish winter, in this photo by Youth entrant Pinar Efe 

Youth entrant Krishnan Bansal wrote: 'Just me, observing the stars above ancient sandstone landscape of Arches National Park. It's amazing how when we view our earthly environment in its natural state, the more alien it becomes. Single exposure, no composites'

A back alley in Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia. 'The flower and tree is there for almost a decade, growing and flourishing with limited resources,' the photographer says. 'I shot this during Chinese New Year when the sky is the clearest and the amount of light pollution is the lowest'

Tilled soil: This aerial shot of fields in Italy is Jacopo Sironi's entry to the Environment category of the Youth competition

The old and the new: A Mexican grafitti artist works on a Quetzalcoatl, the benign pre-Hispanic God that gave corn and fire to men

Happy: An elderly Turkish woman smiles through a rain-splattered window in this entrant to the Open competition's Smile category

Aquarian: A man spills water collected from the lake in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India, in this submission to the Travel category

Duality: A mountainous vista is perfectly reflected in the still waters of the bottom half of this submission to the Low Light category

Hunger: Guidi Oumarou, 19, a refugee from Central African Republic, site on a bed at Gore hospital in eastern Chad, where her two-year-old son is being treated for acute malnutrition. Lack of funding has forced the World Food Programme has cut aid to refugees here by 60 per cent

Isolated: A carnival ride stands alone and forlorn on a beach in Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, in this entry by Irish photographer Ian Thuillier

Drug lords: Cannabis farmers in India's Himalayan foothills, from a region that produces the famous charas hashish, which is made by rubbing live plants together and collecting the resin from the hands. Indian charas is considered the king of hashish strains

Instagram? German photographer Peter Franck submitted this photo from a series about mobile homes. 'They have arrived at the end of their journey and everything seems to persist in standing still,' he says. 'The travelers are gone, leaving the stage and the beach lonely again'

Boy of steel: These were taken during my traveling across Myanma,' writes Czech photographer Zbynek Hrbata of his submission. 'I would like to write more,' he adds, 'but I have last 15 minutes to upload pictures until midnight deadline... sorry'

Futuristic Archaeology: This conceptual picture by Deasung Lee is intended to draw attention to desertification in Mongolia 

Shoot ball, not gun: A boy plays football in Villa La Carcova, one of the most dangerous slums of Buenos Aires, Argentina