There’s a frosty scene as a snowshoer treks across a field of deep snow. Massive waves roil around a surfer in Australia. A brown bear snatches a salmon out of a stream.

These are some of the newly announced shortlisted images in the student and youth competitions of the Sony World Photography Awards 2022 from the World Photography Organisation.

Above is the finalist in the youth competition, landscape category. Called “Lake Helen McKenzie on the 6th of January, 2021,” photographer Emery Sanderson of Canada took the image during a snowshoeing trek in Strathcona Park, the largest park on Vancouver Island.

The youth competition categories include wildlife and nature, culture and travel, and landscape. For the student competition, students were asked to submit a series of images interpreting the idea of “connections” and how people have had to rethink how they connect to one another over the past two years.

Winners of the student, youth, open and professional competition will be announced in April and will go on display as part of the Sony World Photography Awards 2022 exhibition at Somerset House, London.

Here’s a look at some of the photos on the shortlists for both competitions and some thoughts from the photographers about their work.

“Surfers Paradise”

Youth Competition: Culture and Travel

Australian photographer Cameron Borg captured this image, describing it as, “the classic Australian weekend tradition of surfing these huge waves.”

“Sceveninghe”

Student Competition: Connections

This image from Dutch photographer Ezra Bohm is from a series called “The Identity of Holland.”

“Death Spiral”

Youth Competition: Wildlife and Nature

Rayhan Mundra of the U.S. described her image: “A brown bear catching spawning salmon out of a stream in Katmai National Park in Alaska.”

“Memories of Family”

Xu Han of China created this series, thinking about family.

“Transplant”

This image is from the series called “Cariño” from Chris Rosas Vargas from the U.S.

“Anastasia”

Sergey Pronin of the Russian Federation took this image at a summer camp of a woman who provided first aid to students.