/ 2025 / Fine Art / Abstract

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Hideo Hayashi, Japan

This series explores the overlooked surfaces of the city — walls that hold memories in shadow and form.
Light becomes ink; architecture becomes a silent language.
Each frame isolates a moment where geometry and stillness converge, creating a visual poem shaped by contrast, decay, and line.
In monochrome, color gives way to texture and form.
These are not simply images of places, but portraits of what remains: quiet layers of time etched into forgotten facades.
By photographing what is often passed by, I seek to honor the presence of urban spaces that speak not through action, but through form.

Awards Two works have been selected for the IPA (International Photography Awards) 2025 Official Selection.
One of the works was selected as an honorable mention.