The early morning commute, the late drudge home and the chaotic public markets - these are some of the everyday moments illustrated in a photo competition capturing the day-to-day reality of working life.
The overall winner of this year's CBRE Urban Photographer of Year competition was Marius Veith. His picture, called Mask of Society, shows a woman arranging jewellery in a shop window in Germany next to a decorative gold mask.
Mr Veith said: 'Street photography has been a passion of mine for many years and I knew my ‘Mask of Society’ image was the perfect shot for the competition’s ‘Cities at Work’ brief.
'I’m constantly looking for new and interesting angles of urban life and its constantly changing landscape never fails to challenge me.'
This year's theme 'Cities at Work' challenged photographers to find the most captivating images possible to illustrate the reality of the day-to-day working life.
Contestants were asked to submit photos capturing the essence of 'cities at work', be it 'poignant, inspiring, quirky or amusing', with one prize category being the Hourly Winners - a series of 24 images compiled to illustrate the hour of the day at which they were taken.
Other entries included workers weaving threads together at a Vietnamese fishing net factory, a traffic officer dancing as he directs vehicles on the streets of Lisbon and the solitude of the final train home in Tokyo.
A woman arranges the jewellery in a window display next to a golden mask in Marius Veiths' overall winning picture Mask of Society
Last Train, by Chris Jongkind, shows a train driver peering out at an empty platform in Tokyo as the midnight train is about to depart
Late Night Dinner, also by Chris Jongkind, shows two businessmen eating and chatting at a roadside diner in Tokyo at 1am
Two men try to fix a fair ride in the dark at 2am. The picture by Gabriel Lamour is called Fun Fair Goes to Bed and was taken in London
A team of surgeons wearing scrubs and latex gloves work on a patient during a 3am surgery in Poland
Mr Veith's second winning image shows a worker and cleaner meeting on an escalator at 4am in Germany
Dawn With Donkey, taken at 5am, shows a man in loading up a donkey with goods in anticipation of a day's travel in Turkey
A man checks his stock list out the back of his shop in Manchester, Britain, in Ross Magrath's 6am photograph Alley Check
The best image taken at 7am was Cymbie Yans' Morning. It shows a person cycling to work in the city of Pyongyang, North Korea
Arunava Bhowmilk's photograph, taken in India at 8am, shows a group of men receiving their morning massages
A man fixes his fishing net amidst a pile of debris and boat supplies in Qatar. The photo, titled Old Man on His Net, was taken at 9am
Men and women barter over fish at a 10am fish market in India. The picture was taken by Saumalya Ghosh
Abbey Road, taken in Croatia, shows three men crossing the street at 11am - with one of them dressed as a gorilla
A worker stands over a manhole watching his colleague work while knee-deep in sewage. The picture was taken in India at midday
A line of drivers pictured asleep in the backs of their tuk tuks in China. The photo was judged the best picture taken at 1pm
A band play while waiters stand talking among themselves while waiting for afternoon customers in their Italian shop. Taken at 2pm
A man is arrested by a police officer for pickpocketing at 3pm on the streets of Lisbon, while passing residents watch on
Lluis Salvado photographed an elderly woman leaving a bakery in Lisbon. The photo won the 4pm slot in the Hourly Winners category
Symmetry, by Antonio Hernandez Santana from Spain, was named the best photo to illustrate 5pm in the Hourly Winners category
Scottish businessmen wearing suits, in both the foreground and background, feature in this photograph taken at 6pm
People mill around the doorways and windows of a building in Spain during an art exhibition at 7pm. Picture by Manuel Paz-Castanal
The photo judged best at 8pm was Tadashi Onishi's picture of a group of men sitting in the lower deck of a boat in Japan
Nicola Young used a slow shutter speed to capture the chaos of a night market at 9pm in Morocco for her picture Market Madness
Manuel Paz-Castanal's photograph of a tram at Christmas time in Hungary won the ages 16 - 25 youth prize and the 10pm category
Imantas Selenis' Late Shift was named the best picture to be taken at 11pm. It shows a man walking home through the mist in Britain
Ly Hoang Long's brightly coloured photograph of a group of Vietnamese threading together fishing nets won the Asia Pacific category
A dancing police officer is pictured while directing traffic in Lisbon, Portugal, in Carlos da Costa Branco's Dancing in the Street
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