Panos photographers Andrew McConnell and Mads Nissen have won prizes at this year’s Pictures of the Year international (POYi), which is releasing winners’ names over the coming weeks.

Andrew McConnell won a first prize in the portraits series section with his ghostly images of refugees and migrants rescued off their sinking boats in the Mediterranean.

Mads Nissen won a second prize in the portrait singles category for his image of an Afghan refugee in the snow in a makeshift refugee shelter in Belgrade, Serbia.