Vietnamese photographer Nguyen Phuc Thanh's photograph of a flower street vendor was one of the winners of the National Awards at the Sony World Photography Awards 2022.

The World Photography Organization and Sony established the National Award category this year to support emerging photographers around the world.

The intriguing point is that regardless of the locations depicted in the photographs, the awards will recognize the winning photographers' nationalities.

Nguyen Phuc Thanh is a well-known photographer in Vietnam and throughout the world. He was also a winner of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards for his work "Long Coc," which was shot in the northern province of Phu Tho.

He was again a winner this year with his work Xe Dap va Hoa (Bike with Flowers).

Nguyen Phuc Thanh captured this image of a flower vendor riding her bicycle loaded with fresh flowers past Hanoi's Ceramic Road, a nearly four-kilometer stretch of road that runs alongside the Hong (Red) River.

The Ceramic Road, constructed entirely of tesserae from Bat Trang, a village renowned for centuries-old traditional pottery, was certified by Guinness World Records in 2010 as the world's largest ceramic mosaic.

The Sony World Photography Awards 2022 received over 340,000 entries from 211 countries, with over 170,000 entries in the Open category alone.

Some 61 National Award winners were chosen from the Open category.

The winners will have their photos featured in the Sony World Photography Awards book, and the exhibition at Somerset House, in London, which is scheduled to take place from April 13 to May 2.

The Sony World Photography Awards competition has been running for several years and garnered millions of submissions.

Photographer Cigdem Ayyildiz claimed the national award for Turkey with this enchanting shot, which shows the French commune of Le Mont Saint-Michel at sunset. Ayyildiz says: 'For me, this piece of art on the shores of Normandy is a candidate for Eighth Wonder of the World - providing a legendary view and atmosphere especially at sunset and when the tide is low'. Photo: Sony World Photography Awards 2022

This mesmerizing image depicts a tusker elephant (a type of male elephant) standing in front of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro. According to photographer Mohammed Mirza, who won Kuwait's national award, it took nearly a week for him to get close enough to the elephant, within a few meters, while shooting from a very low angle with a wide lens. In the wild, all elephants are quite aggressive, and will attack humans if they believe their territory has been violated. Photo: Sony World Photography Awards 2022

Marianna Smolina won first place in Russia's national award for this photograph of an adult ballerina dancing in front of a group of small girls. Photo: Sony World Photography Awards 2022

The top prize in the national award for Thailand went to photographer Kunuch Chutmongkolporn, for this beautiful image taken in Bangkok last October. In the background, the Buddha statue from the city's Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen temple can be seen. To get a high-impact shot, Chutmongkolporn used a super-telephoto zoom lens to compress the sun with a bird, the statue, and the city in the foreground. Photo: Sony World Photography Awards 2022

This dynamic picture shows the Swiss snowboarder Gian Simmen 'in his natural habitat' on Switzerland's Grindelwald First Mountain helps photographer Tinu Muller take the gold medal in the national award for Switzerland. Photo: Sony World Photography Awards 2022

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