Bronze in Press/Nature/Environmental / 2025 / Press / Nature/Environmental

• Prize
  Bronze in Press/Nature/Environmental
• Photographer
  Yukio Nodo, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  20/03/2025
• Website
  https://www.yukionodo.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/negiasatsuki/

This is a nightscape of Mt. Bukō and a cement factory in Chichibu, Japan, taken the night after snowfall. The summit of the mountain, exposed by decades of limestone mining, reflects the snow clearly without being hidden by trees. In this single frame, the coexistence of human industry — carving and transforming the mountain — and the quiet presence of Mt. Bukō, which has watched over this land through generations, is captured. It is a dialogue between nature and livelihood, between permanence and transformation.

I am a Japan-based landscape and nightscape photographer. My work explores landscapes not simply as scenery, but as places shaped by the quiet interplay of light, time, and the broader rhythms of nature. I am drawn to moments where the movements of the Earth and the sky intersect with traces of human presence. Rather than seeking dramatic spectacle, I focus on subtle transitions: how light shifts and how time settles into the land. Photography, for me, is a way of tracing these invisible layers and preserving fleeting relationships between the Earth, the sky, and the places we inhabit.

Awards Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) 2025
- Finalist, Best Single Images in a Portfolio (Landscape, Weather & Climate)

Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2025
- Gold Winner, Editorial / Environmental - "White Wounds"
- Gold Winner, Nature / Trees - "Ephemeral Dialogues"
- Silver Winner, Nature / Astrophotography - "Rocks on Earth Dream of Stars"

Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2025
- Silver Winner, Nature / Astrophotography - "Arch of The Ancients"
- Bronze Winner, Nature / Astrophotography - "Where Time Sleeps"
- Bronze Winner, Architecture / Industrial - "White Wounds"

Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) 2025
- Bronze Winner, Nature / Water - "The Passage of Trials"
- Bronze Winner, Press / Nature & Environmental - "White Wounds"

Vixen 6th Starry Sky Photo Contest 2025
- Award of Excellence - "Orion Lands on the Snowy Peaks"