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The Sony World Photography Awards represents the world's finest contemporary photography captured over the last year, and displays a huge diversity of extraordinary images in terms of genres, styles and subject matter.

Up close and personal with big cats, whose numbers in the wild for some species have dwindled dramatically.

Stephen Shore spent nearly every day at Warhol's Factory between 1965 and 1967, taking pictures of its diverse cast of characters.

Each figure is a hybrid, constructed from fragments taken from his own photographs.