Renaissance Photography Prize 2016: Beautiful images from winners and finalists

The winners of the 2016 Renaissance Photography Prize have been announced. Now in it's ninth year, the international prize showcases the works of both emerging and established photographers, while raising money to support young women with breast cancer. This years prize accepted single images to coincide with the categories Earth, Private and Relation, and an open category for photography series. With entries coming in their thousands from 62 countries, twelve photographers were shortlisted for the top prizes.

The 60 finalists and shortlisted photographs will be exhibited at the Getty Images Gallery in London from the 6-17 September and was curated by Monica Takvam. IBTimesUK takes a look at the winning images, runners-up and those who were shortlisted from the 2016 entries:

Renaissance Photography Prize, Best Series: Pine Tree Ballads by Paul Thulin (USA)

Best Series (Runner-up): The Mourning Interior by Lauren Rooney (UK)

Shortlisted Series: Every Night I´m Afraid I´ll be Dinner by Ana Sofía Ayarzagoitia (Mexico)

Renaissance Photography Prize, Best Single Image: Camouflage by Vanja Bucan (Slovenia/Germany)

Category Winner (Relation): Le Soulèvèment by Tomasz Fall (Switzerland)

Category Winner (Private): Untitled (Stepanakert, Nagorno Karabakh) by Tristan Moore (UK)

Category Winner (Earth): Curve by Nick de Bruin (Australia)

Shortlisted Single Images (Private): Lethe by Sylwia Kowalczyk (UK)

Shortlisted Single Images (Private): Woman in the Church No 1 by Piotr Karpinski (UK)

Shortlisted Single Images (Relation): Dance Station by Ana Pinto (Portugal)

Shortlisted Single Images (Earth): Flowers by Ben Reeves (UK)

Shortlisted Single Images (Relation): Delirious Tira by Alina Yavtushenko (Israel)