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Bronze 2026 Special Categories / Street Photography

Smartphones

  • Photographer
    Atsuyuki Watanabe
  • Prize
    Bronze in Special Categories / Street Photography

Two figures, two phones, two private worlds — and neither knows the other exists. The foreground man fills the frame like architecture, his silhouette so dense it becomes a wall within a wall. Between his legs, a second figure walks the same street in a completely different universe. The lamppost shadow bisects everything — a crooked diagonal that refuses to resolve into order. The city has arranged them with geometric precision, but each is alone inside a glowing rectangle, unreachable.

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