Fashion photographer David Titlow has won the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize for a shot of his baby son meeting a dog for the first time.
The composition was captured by Titlow the morning after a large midsummer party in Sweden and has won the former musician a £12,000 prize
Second place was awarded to Jessica Fulford-Dobson for her portrait of a young Afghani girl with a skateboard.
A photo of nine-year-old Estonian twins by Birgit Puve came third.
Of his winning shot, Titlow said: “Everyone was a bit hazy from the previous day’s excess.
“My girlfriend passed our son to the subdued revellers on the sofa — the composition and back light was so perfect that I had to capture the moment”.
Head judge Sandy Nairne, who is director of the National Portrait Gallery, called Titlow’s portrait a “fascinating and compelling image”, BBC informs.
