There is now just one month to go until the close of the2017 Sony World Photography Awards. See a new selection of the best entries from Open & Youth.

“Even now, in post-Olympic times, weeds and wilderness are taking over deserted scrap yards, unfazed herons stand motionless on banks of reeds, fox cubs play unbothered..."

Nguan says his photographs are about “big city yearning, ordinary fantasies and emotional globalisation.”His photographs are in the permanent collection of the Singapore Art Museum.

“No other nation on Earth outside the US produces as many MLB players as the Dominican Republic. This small, Caribbean nation continues to dominate the American pastime.”

"My own practice of careful observation, through the medium of photography, is a method I use to seek understanding."

This week we choose some of our favoriteNature and Wildlife entries from the past 3 years of the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards.