NME Photography Awards 2014: Winning Lorde and Debbie Harry shots go on show

The awards celebrate the best in music photojournalism

(Kevin Bull)

The winners of this year’s NME Music Photography Awards have been announced, showcasing amateur and professional music photography at its best.

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Now in its fifth year, the awards celebrate photography in five different categories, including Professional, Under-18, Portrait, Live and Festival.

Readers were also able to vote for their favourite photograph from a gallery of shortlisted entries on the magazine's website.

Previous winners of the award have gone on to work a official photographers for NME.

Chalkie Davies was named the winner of this year’s Outstanding Contribution to Music Photography category for his iconic black and white rock-inspired photographs.

This year’s awards were judged by NME editor Mike Williams, picture editor Zoe Capstick and art director Mark Neil.

Williams said: “The standard of entries in this competition continues to get better every year, and this year's winners have really raised the bar. Some of the work was truly mind-blowing, doing what great music photography always should; capturing a moment and making it feel important, vital and visceral.”

An exhibition of the winning shots has opened at NME’s headquarters at the Blue Fin Building in Southwark, London.