"Frozen in the composition, the swimmers are as smooth and cold as the pooltiles. The colours softly vibrate in a dream-like atmosphere."

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..."