These are the Winners of the 2019 iPhone Photography Awards

The winners of the 12th annual iPhone Photography Awards have just been announced this morning, showing yet again that you can capture some pretty impressive imagery using just the device in your pocket.

The winners include the Grand Prize Winner/Photographer of the Year; first, second and third place in that same category; and first, second and third place in 18 other categories including People, Landscapes, News-Events, Travel, Architecture, Children and more. Images were submitted by “thousands” of iPhone photographers from over 140 countries across the world.

The grand prize winner, Gabriella Cigliano from Italy, won the acolade of iPhone Photographer of the Year for her portrait titled Big Sister—a spontaneous portrait captured on a beach in Zanzibar. “I still wonder how could I capture that exact moment in all its beauty,” says Cigliano. “I was just observing, a few meters from them, but they were probably more curious about me than I was about them, and that’s probably why the girl was looking at me.”

Scroll down to see the all four winners of the Photographer of the Year category, and the 1st place winners in all 18 of the other categories:

Grand Prize – Photographer of the Year – Gabriella Cigliano

First Place – Photographer of the Year – Diego Lage

Second Place – Photographer of the Year – Yuliya Ibraeva

Third Place – Photographer of the Year – Peng Hao

First Place – Abstract – Jiangying Guo

First Place – Animals – Diego Lage

First Place – Architecture – Kuanglong Zhang

First Place – Children – Neri Rivas

First Place – Floral – Dan Liu

First Place – Landscape – Hsueh Isan

First Place – Lifestyle – Biao Peng

First Place – Nature – Huei Jiuan Wang

First Place – News-Events – Lianyu Lu

First Place – Other – Sari Sutton

First Place – Panorama – Vincent Chen

First Place – People – Wei Xiong

First Place – Portrait – Mona Jumaan

First Place – Series – Carol Allen Storey

First Place – Still Life – Clarita Phiri Beierdoerffer

First Place – Sunset – Sreekumar Krishnan

First Place – Travel – Liu Bo

First Place – Trees – Christian Helwig

To see all of the winners for yourself, and read about the photos and photographers mentioned above, head over to the iPhone Photography Awards website.

Credits: All photos credited individually, provided courtesy of the iPhone Photography Awards.