"Photography is a door-opener to many different worlds I would never have an excess to otherwise. It offers me the possibility to dive into a new world every day..."

Blinkspoke with the founders of Documenting Detroitabout the importance of documenting the city'srebirth and of cultivating a community of photographers who can tell the untold stories of once great city.

We are receiving some fantastic entries to theOpen competition of the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards.Here are some of the best from the week commencing October 17, 2016.

"Seeing the image on my display after the shutter has closed always gives me great satisfaction because the human vision is not that great in the darkness."
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“He is an ordinary man, a horse caretaker to be exact but willing to do something that is very very important for his community. Not a lot of people are reading books in Indonesia…”

'Mixtec voices: the route of migration'started in 2015 with an"Unheard voices grant" from the storytelling platform Cowbird. Rodrigo continues todevelop the seriesthrough hisown funding.

This week we choose some of our favoriteArts and Cultureentries from the past 3 years of the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards. The competition is free to enter and open to all photographers.

"For me the core is first and foremost storytelling and then the medium or genre is not so important. "

"These photographs provide agency to those whose lives and livelihoods have been destroyed by mining processes and the long-term environmental ramifications..."

"To be good photographers I believe you need good education in all disciplines, to see and learn about the world in all its facets. Be hungry of knowledge."