Wellcome Image Awards 2008

A striking display of shapes and patterns illustrating the microscopic structures of living organisms in a spectacular variety of ways. View the gallery.

Selected by a team of expert judges from recent acquisitions by Wellcome Images, the winning pictures show a wide variety of subjects, normally invisible to the naked eye, revealing new layers of complexity and making the ordinary extraordinary.

View the Award-winning images in the online gallery or in person, listen to interviews with their creators and find out how they were made. You may also like to vote online for your favourite image, or submit your images for a chance to win at next year's Awards.

Our competition has been won by Harriet Foyster from The Priory LSST.

Throughout history scientists have presented their findings in fascinating pictures - Hooke's 'Micrographia' for example. We present some of the latest of these offerings, astounding not only to the non-specialist, but also to those who produce these images as part of daily research and investigation.5