Award for 11 September snapshot

A view of stunned shoppers and office workers reacting to reports of the World Trade Center attacks has won first prize in this year's London Photographic Competition.

Amateur photographer Tony Eva's take on 11 September impressed the judges, who felt his image provided an alternative perspective of the atrocity.

Taken in Oxford Street on the day of the attack, the photo shows people buying and scanning the Evening Standard's reports. Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, one of the judges, said: "We see real Londoners engaged with the story of the worst tragedy to befall the world in many years."

Mr Eva, 49, who is from Cambridge and works for an oil company, said he was "over the moon at the win, although it is tinged with sadness as the subject relates to such a tragic incident. Hopefully the picture conveys a feeling of how Britain reacted to the terrible events in New York".

The winning picture was chosen from more than 450 entrants. Runner-up Peter Karry, 59, from Surrey, took second place for his "compelling" picture of a laughing police officer at the Notting Hill Carnival. Elevenyearold Roisin McLaughlin, from Whitechapel, was under-16s winner for her image of overcrowding on the Tube.

An exhibition of the winners' work and the "best of the rest" will take place at Piccadilly Circus Tube from 18 March to 8 April.