Owara Bon Customs

• Prize
  Bronze in Advertising/Travel/Tourism
• Photographer
  Shunsuke Kanamori
• Technical Info
  ILCE-7M4, f7.1, shutter speed 1/1250, ISO640, focal length 97mm, EV-0.3, Apps Photoshop.
• Photo Date
  2025-09-02

Owara Bon Festival in Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. This is a festival where people dance while hiding their faces with woven straw umbrellas. The reason for hiding one's face is said to be a remnant of the time when people used to hide their faces with hand towels to hide their status or to hide their embarrassment. This photograph, characterized by light and shadow, conveys the historical background of the Owara Bon Festival in a more impressive way.

Based in Toyama, Japan, he is a photographic artist who dedicated himself to studying photography step by step through a prolonged period of medical recovery. Channeling his background in pharmaceutical research and design into conceptual photography, his work captures the profound stillness embedded in shifting landscapes and traditions through the contrast of light and shadow.