/ 2025 / Special / Street Photography

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Chetna Bhaskar, India
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/missbhaskar/

At Namba Station, the world slows. Stillness settles over the platform — not frozen, but soft, observational. People wait without urgency, their quiet gestures stitched into the silence. At Shinagawa, the mood sharpens: a yellow train rushes past — all blur and light — while the figures remain motionless, unmoved by speed. In both, it’s as if time split for a moment and let the city breathe outside itself. Osaka and Tokyo, each in their own rhythm, reveal the same quiet paradox: movement everywhere, but no sense of hurry. The stillness isn’t resistance, it’s grace. Life wraps around it, but do

Chetna is a storyteller drawn to the quiet poetry of the world — a traveller who gathers fragments of feeling through her lens. Her photography lives in the in-betweens: the pause before a smile, the softness of dusk on a worn street, the silent ache of departure.

Each frame is an attempt to hold the ephemeral — to preserve not just how something looked, but how it felt. Rooted in emotion and moved by movement, Chetna’s work drifts across landscapes and lives, capturing the invisible threads that tie us to a moment, a place, a memory.

She doesn’t just take photographs. She listens, observes,