We chat to last year's ZEISS Photography Award winner, KevinFaingnaert, about what he's been up to since his win and his goal of photographingforgotten subcultures.

Welcome to the 19th edition of Entries of the Week. If your image is featured, you’ve been chosen as among the best entries to the Open competition of the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards.

"The subject of my work varies a lot but the aesthetic is the connecting tissue. I’m interested in lines and shape and colour, those are my philosophy."

"In my photography I rarely feel like shouting, it's more about introversion, silence and hoveringwithin the moment. I’m interested in "hidden" things..."

"The time for young photographers to be more political, more environmental and more project driven is now. It’s a chance to help reshape the world"

If your image is showcasedin today's blog,you’ve been chosen by our editors as among the best entries from the previous week! Good luck to everyone thinking of entering #SWPA.

"Basically, good portrait photography is like good storytelling; you can make a good story (or a good photograph) of a pebble if you understand its contours..."

"The sparsely populated mountains and grasslands of the Southwestpresent a vastly different scale of distance and familiarity for most of us. Here, a driveway can be seven miles of dirt..."

"Not everyone sculpts, but everyone clicks the shutter every now and again. I’m proud of making a living making pictures, being creative and following the passion..."

Welcome to our weekly selection of thebest entries to theOpen competitionof the2018 Sony World Photography Awards.