
Chinese photographer Liping Cao has won the grand prize in the world's richest photography competition – the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA).
For 2024, the prize pot of this prestigious international competition has been super-sized to US$1 million as it enters "a new phase"… and Liping Cao has bagged $200,000 [£156,000/AU$306,000] for his photo titled 'Quiet Power'.