The Power of Photography Award is given in recognition of photography’s ability to touch us, challenge our preconceptions and in some cases change the world. This year’s award goes to Aneesa Dawoojee for her beautifully executed project The Fighting Spirit of South London, depicting the personalities and sometimes troubled back-stories of martial artists and combat sports participants from south of the river.

Informed by her History and Politics degree and influenced by her interest in Renaissance art, her work occupies a powerful intersection between portraiture and documentary photography.

She presents her subjects in an intimate and revealing light, with a goal of showing their strength and resilience alongside vulnerability and the physical and mental challenges they have overcome

(From AP MAgazine, Sponsored by Canon and MPB)