Photographer Sujata Setia is the Gold winner of the AOP Open Award 2021-2022 with her powerful series of images 'Changing The Conversation' "I was burnt in a house fire at the age of 18 months.... © Sujata Setia/shotbywomen

Photographer Sujata Setia is the Gold winner of the AOP Open Award 2021-2022 with her powerful series of images 'Changing The Conversation' "I was burnt in a house fire at the age of 18 months.... © Sujata Setia/shotbywomen

Black and white picture of the streets of Brooklyn, NYC © Rebeka Karda/shotbywomen

Coloured picture of the Times Square in New York City in daylight © Rebeka Karda/shotbywomen

Pigeons rest on a street lamp in the falling snow in New York City © Syndi Pilar/shotbywomen

A portrait of Laura Whittall, who runs the @southnorwoodcommunitykitchen holding a box of fruit. Laura commented "We never really had the true sense of being locked down because we switched to upsc... © Claudia Leisinger/shotbywomen

Portrait of Modern Hunter Gatherer Paul Mitchell of @southnorwoodcommunitykitchen, holding disposable cups Paul runs @southnorwoodcommunitykitchen with Laura Whittall "We never really had the t... © Claudia Leisinger/shotbywomen

Portrait of Modern Hunter Gatherer John K with his Bicycle In the last week of March, they (social service) were trying to get me into a Holiday Inn. I stayed there for one week and then I was ask... © Claudia Leisinger/shotbywomen

Children dress up to celebrate Purim festival. The Local Jewish community in Stamford Hill take dressing up to another level during Purim. The custom of masquerading in costume is a way of emulating G... © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

Lego fancy dress.~Children dress up to celebrate Purim festival. The Local Jewish community in Stamford Hill take dressing up to another level during Purim. The custom of masquerading in costume is a... © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

Children dress up to celebrate Purim festival. The Local Jewish community in Stamford Hill take dressing up to another level during Purim. The custom of masquerading in costume is a way of emulating G... © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

Looking from the ruined ramparts of Kunta Kinteh Island, formerly James Island, back towards the tourist boats. A rusty cannon gives a hint of its former use. The island in the River Gambia is 30km fr... © Annie Green-Armytage/shotbywomen

At Yabuoy Cooking, with host Ida pounding peppercorns for benachin, with produce bought freshly at Tanji market earlier in the day. Benachin is a traditional Gambian dish, a kind of layered meat (or f... © Annie Green-Armytage/shotbywomen

Detail of woman pounding peppercorns in a wooden mortar for benachin, a traditional Gambian dish, a kind of layered meat (or fish) and rice dish cooked successively in one pot. © Annie Green-Armytage/shotbywomen

Homemade deodorant in a glass jar and the ingredients to make it: corn starch, baking soda, coconut oil and essential oil. Preparing cosmetics at home is one way to live pursuing the "zero waste" prin... © Laura Larmo/shotbywomen

Ronnie Goldfarb poses in her log cabin darkroom in Wisbech, UK May 8, 2018 Photographers across the country have found interesting spaces in their homes to carve out as darkrooms. Garages, log cabins,... © Suzanne Plunkett/shotbywomen