Tokio En Tokio

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Lucas Urenda, Chile
• Date of Photograph
  2026
• Website
  http://www.lucasurenda.com
• Instagram
  @lucasurenda

"Tokio en Tokio" es una serie fotográfica en blanco y negro que adopta una estética negra para explorar la conexión entre los residentes de Tokio y el centro de la ciudad. La obra retrata un espacio oriental impregnado por una fuerte influencia cultural occidental. Las luces intensas, ambientadas en callejones sombríos y arquitectura estrecha, crean un contraste visual que refleja la dualidad de Japón: una nación con una tradición histórica profundamente arraigada que coexiste con la modernidad extrema y el desarrollo tecnológico.

freelance documentary photographer.

Author of the photobook "Ser Invisible" (Ocho libros editores, 2018).

Author of the photobook "Paracetamol e Ibuprofeno" (Ocho libros editores (2021, 2022).

His work is based on the relationship between humans and their environment.

Awards Awarded by "Nuestras Culturas" of the Redcultura area "Consejo Nacional de las Culturas y las Artes" Government of Chile (2014 -2015).

Finalist of the 22nd Latin American Documentary Photography Festival "Los Trabajos y Los Días" organized by ENS and the Ministry of Culture, Medellin, Colombia (2016).

"Honourable Mention" with the book series Being Invisible at the Monovisions Photography Awards 2018. (London -England).

"Honourable Mention" with the photograph "The Sea Oil Mine" in the Ikei Photo Contest 2019 (San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain).

Awarded by the Municipality of Puerto Natales with the photograph "El baile del ave" in the "Donde se cruzan los vientos" Contest 2019 (Puerto Natales, Chile).

6 "Honorable mentions" Monovisions Awards 2019, London, England.

7 finals and 6 honorable mentions at the International Photography Awards 2019 (New York, Usa, 2019).

1st place at the Fine Art Photography Awards 2020, London England, with the series "Social Crisis in Chile" in the category "Photojournalism".

"Honorable mention" at IPA 2020, NYC, with the series "Social Crisis in Chile".

"Honorable Mention" at IPA 2021, NYC, with the series "Noa Noa".

1 platinum, 13 golds and 7 silvers at Muse Photography Awards 2021 NYC

Silver and gold at New York Photography Festival 2022

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