Following a record-breaking 230,103 submissions to its ninth edition, the winners of the world's largest photography competition, the Sony World Photography Awards, have been announced.

Tamina-Florentine Zuch, 25, isannounced as the winner of the first-ever ZEISS Photography Award, with her photo series documenting a train journey through India. The contest attracted 3,139 photographers from 116 countries – from Albania to Zimbabwe. A total of 22,000 images were submitted.

Photojournalist Brooks Kraft, successful in the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards, talks to us about what he has learned and experienced covering 8 presidential campaigns.

Lindsay Adler is a professional portrait and fashion photographer based in New York City, and a member of PhotoShelter, the leader in portfolio websites, photo sales, marketing and archiving tools for photographers.

World Photography Organisation is proud to announce the launch ofPHOTOFAIRS, international art fairs dedicated to photography.

Visura member Sara Swaty is a people and portrait photographer who was born and raised in St. Louis Missouri and has a BFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.