Chinese photographer Jianhui Liao has been named as the overall winner of the Food Photographer of the Year 2019 contest.
copyright Jianhui Liao Liao's photo (above), entitled Cauldron Noodles, shows a celebration of the goddess Nuwa in Shexian County in the Hebei Province, China.
As part of the annual festivity, villagers wear Qing Dynasty costumes to celebrate Nuwa's birthday and eat pots of noodles at noon.
Competition adjudicator Andy Macdonald presented Liao with the £5,000 prize money.
Macdonald said of the image: "It stood out from the rest in its category for the way in which [Liao] made the subject matter, a community feast, so beautiful and atmospheric.
"The competition was fierce, there were 9,000 images entered from 77 countries - more entries and more countries than ever before - and the standard was phenomenal."
