Changing Bhutan

• Prize
  Bronze in Press/Other
• Photographer
  Yuki Iwanami, Japan
• Studio
  The Yomiuri Shimbun

Bhutan is the only country in the world that has a "GNH (Gross National Happiness)". However, western culture is gradually beginning to spread. Even young monk watches TV between studying.

Yuki Iwanami was born in Nagano, Japan in 1977, and started his career as a photographer and journalist in 2001. He covered stories in Cambodia, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Then he has joined staff photographer of the Japanese newspaper from 2003. He was based in Tokyo and Sendai, is now in Osaka temporally, covering domestic and world’s news and stories. He keeps covering the stories about the disaster of Tsunami and nuclear power plant occurred in Japan in 2011.