“The Tokyo International Photography Competition” Exhibition

“The Tokyo International Photography Competition” Exhibition

United Photo Industries

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The Tokyo International Photography Competition 6th Edition winners are a part of an international traveling exhibition in Taipei (Taiwan), New York (USA), Dublin (Ireland), and Tokyo (Japan).
This year TIPC invited photographers to explore the urgent push-pull relationship between “need” and “want” through their photographic lens.

Grand Prix Winner
Seunggu Kim (Korea)

Better Days

Korea has been developed rapidly over 40 years, which caused a lot of social ironies. One of the ironies is long working hours with a very short period of break. During holidays, Koreans try their best to enjoy it, but due to lack of time to travel, they spend time mostly around the city…

Lebohang Kganye
(South Africa)

Reconstruction of a Family

Reconstruction of a Family confronts the conflicting stories, which are told in multiple ways, even by the same person — a combination of memory and fantasy. The work does not attest to being documentation of a people but presents their personal narratives, which they share over a cup of tea, homemade ginger ale or the locally brewed beer. (Read more…)

Diambra Mariani (Italy)

Don’t Think of an Elephant

The number of crimes is decreasing in Italy. From 1st of August 2017 to 31st of July 2018 there was a decline of 9.5% compared to the previous twelve months. Nevertheless, one Italian out of four is afraid to be alone on the street in the evening and one in ten is terrified of staying home alone. This photographic research aims to investigate why Italy is so scared (what they NEED to feel safer) and how people react to this fear (what they WANT to feel safer).

Noritaka Minami (USA)

California City, California

My project examines California City, a master-planned community in the Mojave Desert conceived by sociologist turned real estate developer Nathan Mendelsohn in the 1950s. The city was envisioned as the next major metropolis in California in response to the population and economic growths the state experienced after World War II. Today, California City exists as a place that has yet to meet the original ambition of its developer and the idyllic image that was promoted to the public.

Rhulani Anthony Bila (South Africa)

ZITYHILELO ZIKA NDZIMANI
(Revelations from the Children of God)

Izambulo zabantwana benkholo is the introduction to the story which means Revelations from the children of religion in isiZulu. Iziythilelo is the Xhosa word relating to the book of Revelations of the Christian Bible. In the Book of Revelations, it speaks about the ‘End Times’ or ‘Last Days’ and condemns many actions prophesied to manifest in that time. This photo series seeks to explore how these young people feel a conflict between their need for spirituality and the desire to navigate their place and identity in an evolving, complex world.

Jaakko Kahilaniemi (Finland)

100 Hectares of Understanding

It’s impossible to overstate the significance of forests for Finland, both historically and economically. 71,6 % of the total area of the country is covered by forests — that’s over 26 million hectares. I own 100 hectares.100 Hectares of Understanding is my attempt to understand the forest area I inherited 1997.

Maria Sturm (Romania)

You don‘t look Native to me

You don‘t look Native to me is a quote and the title of a body of work, that shows excerpts from the lives of young Native Americans from around Pembroke, Robeson County, North Carolina, where 89% of the city’s population identifies as Native American. The town is the tribal seat of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina, the largest state-recognized Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River, which means they are federally unrecognized and therefore have no reservation nor any monetary benefits. (Read more…)

Jiang Nan: Changing Traditions in Western China

Xinjiang, a vast land located in the northwest of China, is where I was born. It used to known as the Western Regions for hundreds and thousands of years and is now a place where dozens of ethnic groups inhabit. While I was in the middle of terms of my abroad study, my homesick object was Xinjiang. I need a hometown to avoid my rootlessness. Drove along the river through the deserted land, from one city to another, I tried to reach to more people and establish the connection with them via photography.

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