Sony World Photography Awards 2020: the architecture category winner revealed

Having returned to Sicily for the holidays, myself and a group of friends visited Fiumara d'Arte, an open museum showcasing sculptures made by contemporary artists, located along the banks of the Tusa River. Among these works is 38° Parallelo by Mauro Staccioli - a pyramid that stands at the exact point where the geographical coordinates touch the 38th parallel.

Brighton Pier illuminated at dusk. I headed to this iconic location for sunset and waited for the attractions at the end of the pier to light up. I knew this twilight period would offer the best conditions to capture what I had in mind. The resulting image is quite abstract, with the funfair appearing almost like a giant pinball machine.

Preston Bus Station in the North West of England is a much photographed and often divisive building. It’s well-known for its grand façade, however, as is often the case with car parks, hidden gems lurk on the top floor, and this is where this picture was made.

On my family summer holiday in Tokyo, Japan, I saw this beautiful balcony on our way from Shimbashi Station to Hamarikyu Gardens.

Making a photograph look like an illustration is what keeps me going in my photography.

My new project, Coloured Underworld, presents the beauty of the underground, devoid of human presence. 

Reclamation area, Belvedere di Grado, January 2019.

Room with an unlikely view, Athens, Greece, 2019.

The graphic effect of modern architecture becomes clear when reduced to lines and shapes.

Grundtvigs Kirke is a relatively new church in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was completed in 1940 and took the architect’s family three generations to complete. The design is a fusion between the modern geometric forms of Brick Expressionism and the classical vertical structure of Gothic architecture.

A change of perspective often reveals amazing forms and makes us pay attention to the commonplace. The city pool of my hometown Rybnik, Poland, was transformed into something surprising by being photographed from the air during winter.

A clear line separates the crowded village houses and the forest reserve in Guangzhou, China.

In the spring of 2019, this Newfoundland cove was overrun by sea ice. The fishermen were waiting for an opportunity to go out between tides to lay their lobster traps.