/ 2025 / Special / Street Photography

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Shunya Takabayashi, Japan
• Instagram
  @shun___cha

Captured during Yokohama‘s evening rush hour, this image freezes a single moment within a sea of motion. The long exposure blurs the movements of commuters into translucent streaks — echoes of presence, urgency, and routine. Among them, a still figure stands grounded, untouched by the chaos.

In this fleeting intersection of motion and pause, the platform becomes a stage for a quiet resistance to the rhythm of the city. Street photography not only documents, but reveals — and here, it reveals a solitary moment of awareness amid a crowd that never stops.