These heart-breaking image of victims of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia are part of a series that won John Moore the top professional prize in the Sony World Photography awards.
Photograph Blue Room shows Omu Fahnbulleh standing over her husband Ibrahim after he fell and died in a classroom used for Ebola patients.
American Moore was named L’Iris d’Or Photographer of the Year for his series Ebola Crisis Overwhelms Liberian Capital, which has been universally credited for the early exposure of the scale of the Ebola epidemic in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.
Talking at the awards he said: "I collect this award tonight in recognition of all the photographers working in difficult and dangerous places right now, and tomorrow. I am very grateful to the Liberians who allowed me to photograph them on their most difficult days. I will always be grateful."
His photographs are now on display as part of the Sony World Photography exhibition which runs at Somerset House until May 10.
Details: worldphoto.org, somersethouse.org.uk
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