/ 2026 / Analog / People

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Makoto Inaba, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  November, 2025
• Studio
  Atelier d'Obélisque
• Website
  https://www.atelierdobelisque.com
• Instagram
  @querighampstead

Autumn deepens markedly in Paris, where preparations for Christmas are beginning.
Gentle sunlight filters through the afternoon on the Right Bank.

My gaze fell upon a man sitting on a bench, lost in deep thought.
Passing by, I had no way of knowing what occupied his mind.
As always, I simply pressed the shutter quietly.

Ten years will have passed in just a few days from 13th November 2015.

I worked as a photographer at a photography studio specializing in commercial advertising for a long time, but after retiring I moved away from colour photography using digital equipment and am now concentrating on creating works using analog photography, a method I have been familiar with since my youth.

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