Well travelled

Now entering its 18th year, Travel Photographer of the Year 2019 attracted more than 20,000 entries from 144 different countries. The overall winner, Katy Gómez Catalina, is an amateur photographer and doctor of veterinary science from Spain. She’s the first Spanish winner of the competition, and only the second female to take home the overall prize.

Eleven-year-old Indigo Larmour from Ireland won the Young Travel Photographer of the Year category, while British photographers Paul Sansome and Geoff Shoults won the Art of Travel portfolio category and the Single Image in an Art of Travel portfolio award, respectively.

Other British winners included Will Burrard-Lucas, Sumit Dua and Kiran Ridley, while Glynis Shaw, Paul McKenzie, David Alpert, Nicola Young, Stuart Price, Benson Spiers, James Lindsay, Kaim Ladak all had runner-up or commended images, too.

Across the categories, photographers won