Bronze / 2024 / Portraiture / Self-Portrait

• Prize
  Bronze in Portraiture/Self-Portrait
• Photographer
  Tomohiko Funai, Japan

This is a self-portrait, non-photoshopped levitation photo taken at Senbon Torii in Kyoto Japan. The Shot was taken using a tripod and a remote, with fast shutter speed to freeze my jump motion. I attempted to create an atmosphere where gravity has no effect on the subject (myself). Unusually quiet atmosphere of Senbon Torii, where it is usually overly crowded with tourists, further accentuate a strange environment that the subject is in.

I am a self-portrait, non-photoshopped levitation photographer. I was influenced by a contemporary artist, Natsumi Hayashi, and her "Today's Levitation" ser