These Are The Best British Press Photos From 2015

The UK Picture Editor's Guild Awards have announced their winners, picked from the nation's top photojournalists.

Qatar Airways Newspaper Photographer of the Year, Winner: Jack Hill for The Times

Jack Hill / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

David Cameron reading a paper and eating popcorn while waiting for the train back to London, Preston, 12 March 2015.

Jack Hill / The Times / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Nigel Farage at UKIP's Rochester HQ on 22 November 2014.

Qatar Airways Newspaper Photographer of the Year, Finalists:

James Glossop

James Glossop / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Former leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy photographed at the Raasay Ferry pier in the Isle of Skye, Scotland in April 2015.

Richard Pohle

Richard Pohle / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Boris Johnson bats for Brent against Manchester during a "street cricket" tournament at Hillingdon sports centre in Uxbridge.

UK PEG Videographer of the Year, Winner: Julian Simmonds for the Daily Telegraph

Julian Simmonds / Daily Telegraph / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

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BT Sports Photographer of the Year, Winner: Tom Jenkins for The Guardian / The Observer

Tom Jenkins / Guardian / Observer / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Michael Kacer of USA competing in the men's shot put IF1 final on day one of the Invictus Games at Lee Valley Athletics Stadium, Edmonton, on 11 September 2014.

Tom Jenkins / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Nick Matthew of England in between James Willstrop of England and his reflection during the mens squash gold medal match at Scotstoun Sports Campus on 28 July 2014 in Glasgow.

BT Sports Photographer of the Year, Finalists:

David Davies

David Davies / PA Archive/ UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

England's Alex Danson scores during the women's hockey semi-final penalty shootout at the National Hockey Centre during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Alex Whitehead

Alex Whitehead / SWpix.com / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Norway's Sara Josefine Hanssen prepares to compete in the women's multi-classified 100-metre backstroke heats at the British Para-Swimming International Meet 2015 in Glasgow.

Adrian Dennis

Adrian Dennis / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Getty Royal Photographer of the Year, Winner: Chris Jackson

Chris Jackson / Getty Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Queen Elizabeth II visits the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" evolving art installation at the Tower of London on 16 October 2014.

Chris Jackson / Getty Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Prince Harry swings 3-year-old orphan boy Lerato in a photograph taken with the help of a 3-year-old blind girl called Karabo during a visit to Phelisanong Children's Home on 6 December 2014 in Maseru, Lesotho.

Getty Royal Photographer of the Year, Finalists

Jason Dawson

Jason Dawson / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

The Duchess of Cambridge, pinches her nose after presenting shamrocks to the Irish Guards at Aldershot Barracks in March 2014.

Mark Stewart

Mark Stewart / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Prince George watches dad Prince William and Prince Harry play polo at the Beaufort Polo Club, Gloucestershire.

Tim Rooke

Tim Rooke / Rex Shutterstock / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge.

UK PEG News Photographer of the Year, Winner: Bruce Adams of the Daily Mail

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At the UKIP spring conference, UKIP PPC for Caerphilly Sam Gould is pulled back to dry land after getting cut off by the incoming tide after writing "We love u Nige" on the beach at Margate, Kent, on 28 February 2015.

Bruce Adams / Daily Mail / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Rasmila Awal stands with 5-month-old Sonish stand in the rubble of their home in Bhaktaeur, Nepal, which was destroyed in the Nepalese earthquake on 25 April 2015.

UK PEG News Photographer of the Year, Finalists

Carl Court

Carl Court / Getty Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

A protester attempts to smash a Starbucks window during a demonstration against fees and cuts in the education system on 19 November 2014 in London, England.

Jeff J. Mitchell

Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

First minister and leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon poses with children at ABC nursery in Livingston, Scotland, on 5 May 2015 as campaigning in the general election enters its last 48 hours.

Matt Cardy

Matt Cardy / Getty Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Salvage tugs tow the stricken vessel Hoegh Osaka to an anchor point in the Solent on 7 January 2015, Cowes, England.

Christie’s Art and Entertainment Photographer of the Year, Winner: Samir Hussein

Samir Hussein / WireImage / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Rita Ora attends the 2015 Brit Awards at the O2 Arena on 25 February in London, England.

Samir Hussein / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Madonna performs at the 2015 Brit Awards.

Christie's Art and Entertainment Photographer of the Year, Finalists

Gareth Cattermole

Gareth Cattermole / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Benedict Cumberbatch poses for a portrait.

Mike Marsland

Mike Marsland / WireImage / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Cate Blanchett attends the Carol premiere during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2015 in Cannes, France.

Danny Lawson

Danny Lawson / Press Association Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Alice Morgan-Richards promotes Edinburgh festival fringe show Inevitable on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.

Bloomberg Business Photographer of the Year, Winner: James Glossop for The Times

James Glossop / The Times / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Mark Norris of Norris Harps puts the final touches to an American black walnut harp at his workshop in the Scottish Borders village of Stobo in April 2015. Norris is a harp maker of worldwide acclaim who provided a harp used at Madonna's wedding.

James Glossop / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Silversmith Adrian Hope at work on an ornate silver chocolate pod for a private client in his studio in Stobo, Scottish Borders.

Bloomberg Business Photographer of the Year, Finalists

Christopher Ratcliffe

Christopher Ratcliffe / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Daniel Hambury

Daniel Hambury / Stella Pictures / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Berkeley Group chair Tony Pidgley (right), and managing director Rob Perrins.

Jason Alden

Jason Alden / Bloomberg / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

George Osborne, UK chancellor of the exchequer, holds the dispatch box containing the 2015 Budget as members of the Treasury team pass behind him outside 11 Downing Street, London, on Wednesday 18 March 2015.

Fixation Young Photographer Bursary, Winner: James Gourley

James Gourley / Rex / ShutterstockUK / Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and Simon Hughes MP at the House of Commons in March 2015.

James Gourley / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

A child in a Darth Vader outfit tries on a Storm Trooper helmet at the MCM Expo London Comic Con in May 2015.

Fixation Young Photographer Bursary, Finalists

Jack Taylor

Jack Taylor / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

A woman with the word "Jew" inked on her forehead attends an anti-fascist demonstration on Whitehall in central London on 4 July 2015 as an anti-Jewish rally is held by a group of far-right protesters. There were upwards of 200 anti-fascist demonstrators chanting over 20 anti-Jewish, far-right demonstrators.

Peter Summers

Peter Summers / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Competitors take part in the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling race near Gloucester, England, on 25 May 2015.

Alex Whitehead

Alex Whitehead / SWpix.com / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Hull KR's Kevin Larroyer runs out for the start of the second half at a Huddersfield Giants vs Hull KR match at John Smith's Stadium, Huddersfield, England.

Genesis Regional Photographer of the Year, Winner: James Hardisty

James Hardisty / Yorkshire Post Newspapers / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

At a Charlie Hebdo vigil organised by French journalist Mireille Mason-Beguin, held in Millennium Square, Leeds, on 11 January 2015, French exchange student Sophie Gautrais, 19, shows her emotion during a two-minute silence.

James Hardisty / Yorkshire Post Newspapers / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Phil Spence, chief operating officer for the British Library, is photographed at its brand-new National Newspaper Building in Thorp Arch, near Boston Spa, Wetherby.

Genesis Regional Photographer of the Year, Finalists

Anna Gowthorpe

Anna Gowthorpe / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Charles McQuillan

Charles McQuillan / Getty Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Michael Barron (right) and Jamie Nanci (left) kiss at the RDS count centre on 23 May 2015 in Dublin, Ireland, as they celebrate victory in Ireland's referendum on same-sex mariage. The referendum was held 22 years after Ireland decriminalised homosexuality. Ireland was the first country in the world to put the question of same-sex marriage to a referendum.

Clodagh Kilcoyne

Clodagh Kilcoyne / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

The redcoats fire at the pikemen during a re-enactment of the 1798 Battle of Vinegar Hill in Enniscorthy, County Wexford.

UKPEG Photo Essay of the Year, Winner: Chris Furlong of Getty Images

Christopher Furlong / Getty Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

Auschwitz concentration camp survivor Edith Baneth, 88, poses in her London home on 1 December 2014. Baneth was a prisoner in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.

Christopher Furlong / Getty Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

A small selection of the personal photographs taken from prisoners as they arrived at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp are displayed on 12 November 2014 in Oswiecim, Poland.

UKPEG Photo Essay of the Year, Finalists

Andrew Parsons

Andrew Parsons / i-Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

David Cameron holds the 6.30pm meeting at No. 10 on the 10th day of the 2015 general election campaign.

Christopher Furlong

Christopher Furlong / Getty Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

People sit and eat outside a street café in Walsall, West Midlands, on 11 February 2015.

Matt Cardy

Matt Cardy / Getty Images / UK Picture Editor Guild Awards 2015

A couple sit beside their fire inside their tent erected in the grounds of the Mazar Mar Eillia (Mar Elia) Catholic church on 14 December 2014 in Erbil, Iraq. The church had become home to hundreds of Iraqi Christians forced to flee their homes by the advance of ISIS.