With 2016 coming to a close, we lookback and presentsome of our favourite images from the Professional categories of 2016 Sony World Photography Awards.

"I'm a French photographer living in London and I started this project involving a Gameboy Camera.With it I try to show a world where the line between familiar and new is blurred."

Joni Sternbach is a native New Yorker. She uses both large format film and early photographic processes to create contemporary landscapes and environmental portraits.

7 days, 7 images on the World Photography Organisation Instagram feed:#WPOfavsfeature: @salvalopez.

Florian W. Mueller is a Cologne based photographer with 15+ years experience in photography. His work isexhibited and published internationally and has received numerous awards.

Judges are looking for good composition, creativity and clear photographs.This year, we are asking our young photographers to respond to the brief:Beauty