BPPA press photographer of the year 2020 – in pictures

Covid-19 essay of the year winner

Hart Island mass graves, New York

Medical workers embrace, New York

A funeral worker handles coronavirus victims, New York

Coronavirus victims loaded on refrigerated morgues, New York

Statue of Liberty behind coronavirus temporary refrigerated morgue trailers

Covid-19 essay of the year runner-up

Ann Clapham (centre), whose brother Dennis Clapham died of Covid aged 62, her son Andrew and niece Ellie attend his funeral and celebration service at Shipley, West Yorkshire in May 2020

Photo essay of the year winner

Black Lives Matter best dressed protest, New York

B Lovee, a Black Lives Matter protester, Richmond

Photo essay of the year runner-up

A farmer stands over a dead cow killed by bushfire

News photographer of the year winner

Protester Patrick Hutchinson carries an injured counter-protester to safety near London’s Waterloo station during a Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020

News photographer of the year runner-up

Neonatal nurse Kirsty Hartley carries premature baby Theo Anderson to his mother, Kirsty Anderson, in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Lancashire women and newborn centre at Burnley general hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in May 2020

Arts and entertainment photographer of the year winner

The artist Grayson Perry next to his work, Very Large Very Expensive Abstract Painting, ahead of the exhibition Grayson Perry: The MOST Specialest Relationship, which looks at American culture at the Victoria Miro gallery in London

Arts and entertainment photographer of the year runner-up

Stormzy performs at the Brit Awards at the O2 Arena in February 2020

Portrait photographer of the year winner

The Rev Stuart Elliott blesses the new fire as part of his Service of New Light for Easter Eve on the shore of Llynnau Mymbyr in Snowdonia in April 2020

Portrait photographer of the year runner-up

Strictly Come Dancing’s Nadiya Bychkova

Royal photographer of the year winner

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, attend the Endeavour Fund Awards at Mansion House, London

Royal photographer of the year runner-up

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, look at their homemade wedding anniversary card, given to them by their great grandchildren Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, at Windsor Castle ahead of their 73rd wedding anniversary in November 2020

Business photographer of the year winner

Furnace worker Mark Woodington cleaning out the slag from the furnace at Hargreaves Foundry, Halifax

Business photographer of the year runner-up

A long exposure photograph of an electronic matrix sign informing motorists on the M6 in Cheshire ‘Stay Home Essential Travel Only’ in November 2020

Sport photographer of the year (action) winner

Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane gets crowded out by Leicester defenders James Justin, Wesley Fofana and Wilfred Ndidi

Sport photographer of the year (action) runner-up

Lance Stroll’s racing point RP20 Mercedes is launched upside down following a crash at the 2020 Grand Prix of Bahrain

Sport photographer of the year (away from the action) winner

Olympian Jo Muir training at her parents’ farm in Scotland during lockdown

Sport photographer of the year (away from the action) runner-up

Gymnast Dominick Cunningham trains in his stable during lockdown

Young photographer of the year winner

A man pours water over himself in Soho after lockdown restrictions on pubs and restaurants are eased in England

Young photographer of the year joint runner-up

A gardener tends to thousands of tulips at Arundel Castle

Young photographer of the year joint runner-up

Burnley fan John Withington has his face painted by his daughter in his home before the Manchester City v Burnley match in June 2020, as football matches resume behind closed doors

Young photographer of the year joint runner-up

A train passes over the Ribblehead Viaduct in the snow