Peter DiCampo has won an exhibition in London, courtesy of the BJP's International Photography Award.

He scooped the body of work category with his story Life Without Lights, which records nightime life in Ghana. Given its proximity to the equator, Ghana has exactly 12 hours daylight every day, and is plunged into darkness every night from 6pm to 6am. Yet the country's rural north has little access to electricity, meaning 40% nearly half the country has no mainline electric lights. Instead they rely on torches, mobile phones and portable lights from the burgeoning film industry to study, cook and work by at night.

DiCampo was born in 1984 but is already a well established photojournalist and a member of the VII Mentor Program. He beat off stiff competition from nearly 150 other photographers, impressing judges Michael Diemar, of Diemar/Noble, Alexia Singh of Thompson Reuters and Diane Smyth from the BJP with his magical, yet hard-hitting story.

The project will be printed by Spectrum Photographic, one of Europe's leading photography printers, and exhibited at the AOP Gallery in London's East End from 02 - 06 November. DiCampo also wins a Nikon D700 plus a 50mm 1.4G lens, worth over £2600 RRP, courtesy of Nikon. Many thanks to our sponsors and to the many photographers who supported the body of work category - the single image category will be judged shortly.