We are receiving some fantastic entries to theOpen competition of the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards.Here are some of the best from the week commencing October 24, 2016.

"I think a great portrait is the one that moves you, and that makes you feel something. It doesn’t matter whether the feeling is about the person portrayed, or about the person photographing..."

This week we choose some of our favoriteLow Light entries from the past 3 years of the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards.Enterthe 2017 competition for free today.

"We live surrounded by the stories, earthquakes, evolution, birth, disappointment and loves of life.Photography is a poetry and a visual dialog with the self and the circumstances around me."

"Photography is a door-opener to many different worlds I would never have an excess to otherwise. It offers me the possibility to dive into a new world every day..."

Blinkspoke with the founders of Documenting Detroitabout the importance of documenting the city'srebirth and of cultivating a community of photographers who can tell the untold stories of once great city.