"Travel and street photography is for me the best way to train your eyes and photography skills - as it combines so many different genres of photography."

"Above all, photography is an ever-changing art. And that's a great opportunity to experiment andcontinuously improve."

"I prefer clearly or even simply composed pictures with a clear motive. To me a good photo should be devoid of distracting elements."

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"I wanted to understand a tradition that was outside of my own experience with their ancient customs, rituals and codes associated with it, which were passed down in families over generations."

"I am documenting current events. Jaworzno is not a big city, it only has about 90,000 citizens. Despite this everyday life is very interesting."

"Iceland was a natural destination to travel to for this project. If you are looking for archaic places on this planet with little colour, you end up in that beautiful, rough country."

"Drawn to the common humanity rather than the dogma behind such traditions, I felt it a pertinent theme in our increasingly globalised world with its frequent clash of civilisations."

"I am looking for geometry and symmetry obsessively in each of my compositions. When I take a photo, I exclude all other circumstances and focus only on the picture to be prepared. I collect moments."

Carl Jeffers is shortlisted in the Portraits category of the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards. His image, alongside the other winners will be exhibited at Somerset House, London from 21 April - 7 May.