Transient Landscapes from Japan train windows. An abstract study. Vol I.

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Ria Solari, Spain
• Date of Photograph
  May 2025

In Japan, I learned the concept of Wabi-sabi: the beauty of the imperfect, the impermanent, and the incomplete. That nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect. These abstract photographs are my way of honoring the passage of time and how to find beauty in what we usually ignore by moving too fast.  
While the train speeds at 300 km/h, most people just see fields and cities rushing past. For me, that speed turns into stillness capturing the trace of color and light, transforming an everyday journey into abstract photos showing the art of finding calm in the middle of movement.