/ 2026 / Fine Art / Digitally Enhanced

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  MINGYU CHEN, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  2026.01.07

White Night began with a simple question: is night really black?

I photographed urban spaces after dark and inverted their colors, turning familiar streets and artificial lights into pale, unfamiliar scenes. Through color inversion, long exposure, and blur, I wanted to show how ordinary places can become difficult to recognize at night.

The images remain connected to real places, but they also begin to resemble fragments of memory. For me, night is not simply darkness, but a space where perception becomes uncertain.