Thousands participated in the iPhone Photography Awards competition. These are the winners.

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Year – long photographer, grand prize: Rohingya children watch a health awareness and sanitation film near the Tangkhali refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh. Shot with an iPhone 7. (Jashim Salam / IPPA)

Photographer of the year, first place: The woman wearing the traditional clothes of a "baiana" takes a break from work in Salvador de Bahia, in Brazil. Shot with an iPhone 6S. (Alexandre Weber / IPPA)

The iPhone Photography Awards were created 11 years ago when the popularity of taking photos with an iPhone began to increase. Each year, the contest receives thousands of submissions. Photographers can enter images in 20 categories, including news and events, landscape, still lifes and travel. In addition to the winners selected from these categories, the judges also award two "photographer of the year" awards: the grand prize and the first place. The contest is the first and oldest contest for people taking photos with their iPhones (or iPads).

The grand prize of the photographer of the year was awarded to Jashim Salam and the first place to Alexander Weber

. ] Documentary photographer based in Bangladesh, Salam graduated from Pathshala, the South Asian Institute of Media. He holds a graduate degree in visual journalism and was a recipient of the World Press Photo at the Asian Journalism Center Konrad Adenauer of the Ateneo University of Manila in the Philippines.

Weber is a 47-year-old anthropologist who studies history. d & # 39; s. He is an avid traveler who uses his iPhone to take pictures during his visits. You can see more of Salam's work here and here, and more of Weber's work here.

You can find out more about the competition on his website. Here are the rest of the winners of the first place in the other categories.

First place, summary: Remains of black and white cardboard in an industrial space in Brisbane, Australia. Filmed with an iPhone X. (Glenn Homann / IPPA)

First Place, Animals: Django is a burrow of the Shaolin Temple, born and raised in a Buddhist monastery in China's Hunan province. Shot in Carlsbad, California, on an iPhone 7 Plus. (Robin Roberts / IPPA)

First Place, Architecture: A stairway in Rome. Shot with an iPhone 7 Plus. (Massimo Graziani / IPPA)

First place, children: Shot in Toronto with an iPhone 5S. (Melisa Barrilli / IPPA)

First place, floral. Shot in Santa Barbara, California, with an iPhone 7. (Alison Helena / IPPA)

First Place, Landscape: Shot with an iPhone 8 Plus from an airplane window on a Las Vegas flight . (Charles Thomas / IPPA)

First place, lifestyle: A mother of three shows her style in Madrid. Shot with an iPhone 7. (Natalia Garces / IPPA)

First place, nature: Morning fog in Toulouse, France. Shot with an iPhone 6S. (Sukru Mehmet Omur / IPPA)

First place, news and events: During a lull in the bombings, Syrians gather among the ruins of Duma for a public iftar, the evening meal at the end of Ramadan. Shot with an iPhone 7. (Mohammed Badra / European Photographic Agency / IPPA)

First place, other: Shot with an iPhone SE at the 39th Annual Wright Kite Festival in Kill Devil Hills, NC (Amy Nelson / IPPA) [19659018] First place, panorama: The Vatnajokull glacier meets the Atlantic Ocean in Iceland. Shot with an iPhone 6 Plus. (Mateusz Piesiak / IPPA)