/ 2026 / Portraiture / Family

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Yutaka Kurahashi, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  17 Nov. 2024
• Website
  https://whale385.hatenablog.com/
• Instagram
  kurapon2

This monochrome group portrait captures three generations of women—a grandmother, a mother, and her three daughters—sitting side by side. Beyond a simple family record, this image subtly explores the silent, psychological anxiety of aging and physical transformation shared among them. Looking at the mother, the daughters see their imminent future; looking at the grandmother, the mother sees her own. This visual progression serves as an unavoidable mirror of genetic destiny, where individual concerns about weight and changing bodies become a shared, inescapable reality. Through its stark black-