The world in 113 pictures

Over 4,000 professional and amateur photographers submitted works, and a jury selected 51 of them to present a total of 113 works. They will be presented at the 166th International Photography Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London. It is the longest-running photography exhibition series in the world. The series has always presented contemporary developments in the medium and the current edition is no exception, focusing on themes such as the relationship between identity and community, family constellations and environmental issues. The photographers capture socially and culturally significant aspects in a visually impressive way. The jury is made up of the Chinese artist Yuxing Chen, the British-Indian artist Kalpesh Lathigra, the British-Nigerian photo editor Anne Nwakalor, the photography expert Dr. Michael Pritchard and the curator Nicola Shipley. The 166th International Photography Exhibition runs from August 5 to September 18.

Before the exhibition began, the two winners of the IPE Award and the Under 30s Award were announced. Both prizes are endowed with £1,000 and a year's free membership of the Royal Photographic Society. The IPE Award goes to Lydia Goldblatt for her series Fugue about love and grief, intimacy and distance in the lifelong relationship between mother and child. The photographer explores her relationship with her mother and her own role as a mother to her child. The Under 30s Award was presented to Keerthana Kunnath. In her series Not What You Saw, she focuses on female bodybuilders in the south of India. With their trained bodies and the physical strength that goes with them, they challenge firmly established gender and beauty norms and the role of men as protectors. Many of the female bodybuilders have never been photographed before. Some train in secret to avoid social ostracism.