All images used with permission from EyeEm. Lead photo by © Zacherie Rabehi.

Today, EyeEm announces the winners of its annual photography awards. The competition saw entries from more than 38,000 photographers with over 270,000 images being submitted. Contestants competed in five categories including architecture, outdoors, photojournalism, portraiture, and street photography. A special category also crowned the 2016 EyeEM Photographer of the Year, with the photographer chosen winning a paid trip to India to work on a photography project and also a mentorship with Getty Images. The winner would also get featured in the official EyeEm Awards Book.

The winners for the 2016 EyeEm awards are as follows:

The Architect
Ralph Pollack

The Great Outdoors
Ji-hyun Park

The Photojournalist
Pantea Naghavi Anaraki

The Portraitist
Can Dagarslani

The Street Photographer
Reuven Halevi

For more information, updates, and to see more images from the EyeEm Awards, you can visit their website here.