/ 2025 / Fine Art / Digitally Enhanced

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Izumi Osaragi, Japan
• Studio
  Atelier Allegria

Where the God Dwells

Behind the torii, it waits.
It does not move.
It does not speak.
But it sees.
I did not believe.
I only wandered.

The foxes are not stone.
They breathe through silence.
The paper charms do not tremble with wind,
but with memory.
I stepped across the rope.
I looked into the shrine.
I thought I was alone.

Then came the gaze.
Not from eyes. Not from form.
But from stillness.
It watched me as I turned away.
This is not belief.
Not myth.
This is a record of having been seen.

This is where the god dwells.

Born in Saitama, Japan in the 1990s, he began photography in junior high with his father's PENTAX. After a pause due to illness, he resumed in 2017 and now works across genres—landscape, macro, documentary, and cosplay. His cyanotype works began in 2018. He published L'Orvieto (2020) and Zassō Yūgi (2021). In 2023–24, he documented slums and tea plantations in Bangladesh. His cinematic style in cosplay photography earned him the Grand Prize (Photographer) at COTY2025. He is a member of the Saitama Prefectural Artists Association.

Awards 2017: Selected, Fujifilm 50,000-Person Photo Exhibition (Japan)
2019: Awarded, Pictorico Photo Contest (Japan)
2019: Selected, The 69th Saitama Prefectural Art Exhibition (Japan)
2019: Exhibited, Meishiban (Business Card-sized) Photo Exhibition (Japan)
2022: Selected, The 70th Saitama Prefectural Art Exhibition (Japan)
2023: Selected, The 71st Saitama Prefectural Art Exhibition (Japan)
2023: Selected, The 107th Nika Exhibition, Art Photo Division (Japan)
2024: Selected, The 108th Nika Exhibition, Art Photo Division (Japan)
2024: 2nd Prize, IPA (International Photography Awards, USA), Professional – Macro Category
2024: Official Selection, IPA (International Photography Awards, USA), Professional Division
2024: Silver Winner, New York Photography Awards, Professional*5
(People Category//Macro Category//Minimalist Category//Street Category//Minimalist Category )
2024: Honorable Mention, New York Photography Awards, Professional*5
(Fine Art Category*2//Macro Category//Architecture*2)
2024: Gold Winner, TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards), Professional*2
(Portrait Category//Macro Category)
2024: Honorable Mention, TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards), Professional*2
(Architecture Category//Street Category)
2025: Gold Winner, MUSE Photography Awards, Professional*6
2025: Silver Winner, MUSE Photography Awards, Professional*4