/ 2025 / Special / Street Photography

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Chenyu Gu, China
• Studio
  Photography Dept, CUC

A Southern Chinese, I marvel at rapid urbanization—skyscrapers stir sublime awe, proving human power to reshape our world. Suzhou, Wu culture’s cradle and China’s key migrant hub, preserves low-rise water-town cores. Downtown thrives with living traditions.At Pingjiang Road, commercialization coexists with culture. Visitors merge with waterscapes: boatmen glide past lovers photographing bridges, etching an ink-wash tourism scene. I shot this in B&W to amplify its painterly texture."Concrete jungle or Wu whispers"? My lens bridges both, tracing cultural roots through coexistence.