Honorable Mention / 2019 / Book / Documentary

• Photographer
  Nicola Tanzini, Italy
• Studio
  Nicola Tanzini
• Website
  http://www.nicolatanzini.com
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/nicolatanzini

Over the past two years, the photographer's gaze has wandered around Tokyo, focusing on Tsukiji, the largest fish market in the world, located in the district bearing the same name, in the city centre since 1935.
Considered a sacred place, it has now lost its identity: on 6th October 2018 it was definetely closed and relocated in the Toyosu district for the upcoming 2020 Olympics.
In Tokyo Tsukiji, the place is exhibited in an as yet unknown role, during the slowing down of the activity and the necessary preparation phase to face the portion of time in which the world is closed out.

I was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1964.
My work is inspired mostly by the movement of Humanist photography, focusing on the behaviors and the everyday situations of human nature in which the author himself describes as his natural environment: the street.
I founded Street Diaries, an itinerant project, in constant evolution, whose aim is to explore the relationship between human and metropoli
Tokyo.Tsukiji is his first book edit by Contrasto publisher.
It was exhibited at Leica Store Milan, Photolux Biennal Festival in Lucca, and from march 21th until may 5th 2019 at Oriental Museum of Genoa.