Your weekly dose of inspiration from #SWPA. Winning photographers are taken on a year-long journey, bringing untold exposure and providing a global stage on which to present their work.

Taking place from January 27-29, 2017 at the Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center,PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco will present fresh and cutting-edge work in a highly curated environment with a keen focus on international contemporary living artists.

Sony UK Ambassador Michael Wayne Plant began as a freelance advertising and architectural photographer in Brisbane, Australia. His work has changed as he has, evolving through a number of genres, into what he is most passionate about, which is a return to his original interests in photography: storytelling.

One winning photographer will be awarded €12,000 worth of ZEISS lenses in addition to €3,000 travel expenses to complete a dream photography project in the location of their choice.

See some of the best entries into the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards from the week commencing 26/09/16.

This week see choose our 20 favoyrite Travel entries from the past 3 years of the Sony World Photography Awards. Enter the 2017 competition for free today.

Since theEuropean Space Agency’s Rosetta missionsuccessfully entered comet 67P’s atmosphere in 2014, we have been treated with thousands of specular, otherworldly images.

"Every game, event minute, is unpredictable. It’s a rush, exciting, thrilling. And the challenges are constant."

7 days, 7 images on the World Photography OrganisationInstagram feed.Born in Gdansk, Poland,Maciek Jasik talksof "seeking to understand society's relationship with the natural world and explore ideas of identity, gender..."

We are recieving some fantastic entries to the Open competition of the 2017 Sony World photography Awards. Over the next few weeks, in the run up to the deadline in January, we'll be choosing out favourites.