Home or Homeless
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PrizeHonorable Mention
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PhotographerTea Chen, Canada
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Date of Photograph2025-11-22
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Website
“Home or Homeless” reflects the fragile line between survival and belonging in New Delhi. Amid cracked walls, crowded streets, and precarious shelters, families and children persist with quiet resilience—many surviving by scavenging and excluded from schooling. The series questions what safety and permanence mean, showing how life endures between traffic, fragility, and the struggle to simply exist. For those with nowhere else to go, these harsh improvised spaces are not just shelters—they are home.
Tea Chen is a photographer, videographer, English instructor, and Buddhist monk of GEBIS. Ordained in 2008 and arriving on Prince Edward Island in 2010, he has spent over a decade creating visual works for Buddhist monasteries across PEI and Asia. Originally from Taiwan, he grew up and worked on PEI — often regarded as a “come‑from‑away,” yet still calls the Island home. Integrating Tibetan Buddhist analytical training into both teaching and art, he invites viewers to slow down, observe, and reconnect with the outer world and their inner values.
Awards In 2025, Tea Chen was awarded Category Winner in the Celebrate PEI Agriculture Photo Contest, organized by the Government of Prince Edward Island. His photograph Tractor on the Milky Way received first place in the Modern Technology in Agriculture category, recognizing a creative intersection between contemporary farming, landscape, and night photography. It was also featured in the Island Farmer newspaper in Spring 2026.
MUSE Photography Awards | Platinum Winner
London Photography Awards | Platinum Winner
International Photography Awards (IPA) | Official Selection
