/ 2024 / Special / Night Photography

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Asako Naruto , Spain
• Date of Photograph
  08/12/2023
• Website
  https://asakonaruto.myportfolio.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/asako_fotografa/

A person standing while puffing on a cigarette. The cool December night air and neon lights are depicted as if they were illustrations for a story.

Asako Naruto is a Japanese photographer based in Madrid. She studied design at Musashino Art University and completed doctoral studies in art history at Nagoya University.
Her work explores traces of absence and the echoes of untold stories embedded within urban spaces. She is also known for her Madrid train-station series and for visually playful bodies of work employing prisms and split diopters.
In 2025, her first photobook, All the Fading Words, was published by Snap Collective (Denmark).

Awards [ BOOK ]

• All The Fading Words (SNAP Collective, Denmark, 2025)

[ SELECTED AWARDS ]

• Paris International Street Photo Awards (2023, 2024, 2025) – 1st Place
• B&W International Awards (2024, 2025) – 1st Place; 2026 – 2nd Place
• ND Awards 2025 – 1st Place
• Fine Art Photography Awards 2025 – 1st Place
• PX3 – Prix de la Photographie Paris 2024 – Gold
• 35 Awards 2025 – Best Photographer of the Year (Street), 1st Place (Street Series)
• Life Framer Black & White Award 2026 – Winner
• All About Photo Awards 2026 – Winner (Juror: Steve McCurry)
• BBA Photography Prize 2026 – Shortlisted

[ PUBLICATIONS ]

• AAP Magazine #39: *Shadows* (2024)
• AAP Magazine #41: *B&W* (2024)
• AAP Magazine #52: *Street* (2025)
• *Deep Streets #21*, Eyeshot (2026)

[ SELECTED EXHIBITIONS ]

• ART-ICON, *Corporeality* — Bastille Design Center, Paris (2024)
• House of Lucie, *TIFA 2024 Winners Exhibition* — Budapest (2025)
• ART-ICON, *Faces* — Arles (2025)
• B&W International Awards 2025 Winners Exhibition — Kiff & Marais, Paris (2025)
• Treviso Photographic Festival — Treviso (2025)
• Paris International Street Photo Awards 2025 Winners Exhibition — Magazzini Fotografici, Naples (2025)
• BBA Photography Prize 2026 Exhibition — BBA Gallery, Berlin (2026)

[ JURY ]

• 35 Awards (10th Edition) — Jury Member, Representing Spain
• Mobgraphia Mobile Photo Festival 2025 — Jury Member, São Paulo, Brazil