China food photographers dine at world's top table

The 11th staging of the competition drew over 9,000 entries from more than 60 countries and continued a rich vein of success for Chinese photographers, who won the competition's overall top prize in both 2019 and 2021.

The outright winner for 2022 was Kebabiyana, by Indian photographer Debdatta Chakraborty, an illustration of an ordinary street in Srinagar that at night is transformed by street food sellers lighting up their ovens and filling the air with smoke and aromas.

Among the Chinese category winners, Weining Lin achieved double success, in both the Food in Action category, with an image of an old man preparing vegetables in a sun-drenched courtyard, and the Food for the Family category, depicting a family in western Hunan making food for Spring Festival.