Honorable Mention TIFA 2025 Special Categories / Street Photography

Snowfall Silence, Shibuya

  • Photographer
    Sampo
  • Technical Info
    Ss1/125,iso2000,f2.8,full Frame
  • Photo Date
    February 5, 2024.

This photograph documents Spain-zaka in Shibuya, a street usually crowded with energy but here stilled by midnight snow. In a city defined by movement, such emptiness is rare. The snowfall softens the architecture and signage, while faint light traces the slope’s rhythm. What is normally a passage of constant flow becomes a stage of absence, where urban design and quiet coexist. The image records not only a place but a condition—how Tokyo, momentarily slowed, reveals the structures that guide its everyday life.

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