/ 2024 / Architecture / Cityscape

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Shintaro Ueyama, United States
• Date of Photograph
  Dec 22 2011
• Studio
  Self-Employment
• Website
  https://www.triangleny.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/triangle_ny/

It was the largest Christmas tree in New York City. One World Trade Center has been ten years since it opened on November 3, 2014. In the winter of 2011, this large building was transformed into a giant Christmas tree during the construction. It was hard work to put Christmas-colored light bulbs on a 100-story building, and it was also hard work to return the normal light bulbs once the Christmas season was over. Constructors strived to celebrate Christmas by showing the biggest Christmas tree to the New Yorker. I felt the feeling of "You Only Live Once" by that celebration.

I am a New York–based photographer originally from Nara, Japan. Since 2010, I have pursued photography independently, using the city as a stage to explore the relationship between urban landscapes and natural light.

My work balances stillness and movement, shaped by a Japanese sense of aesthetics and an intuitive response to New York’s energy. In portraiture, I avoid excessive direction, focusing on the moment when a subject naturally blends into their surroundings.

Through light, shadow, and space, I create images that feel both immediate and timeless.

Thank you,

Shintaro Ueyama

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