Winners of 2016 Sony World Photography Awards announced

An Iranian photographer has won the $25,000 top prize in the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards with a collection of portraits taken to highlight the horrors of acid throwing and the plight of its victims. Asghar Khamseh, a photojournalist with Iran's Mehr News Agency, was given the title L'Iris d'Or Photographer of the Year a ceremony in London last week, at which he was also named the winner of the Contemporary Issues prize. His 'Fire of Hatred' project portrays the shocking injuries that acid...