The Sony World Photography Awards have announced the shortlists for their youth and student categories, and entries range from the opera houses of China to the classrooms of Kwazulu-Natal. Submissions flooded in from across the world, but 10 student photographers and six youth photographers have now made their respective shortlists.

Here are there finest photos, from an Italian man helping injured birds to a particularly photogenic fox…

The Portrait of a Tibetan Man – Tianyang Wang, China

Unnamed – Emil Holthausen, Germany

Bàt-ti-to – Irene Facoetti, Italy

My Local Leaders #1 – Coenraad Torlage, South Africa

My Local Leaders #2 – Coenraad Torlage, South Africa

Border1 – Matías Alejandro Acuña, Argentina

Internal Troops – Gosha Bergal, Russia

Home – Tayla Nebesky, USA 

Justice for George Floyd, New York City – Thomas Hengge, USA

Unnamed – Matias Garcia, Ecuador

Inheritor – Yanan Li, China