Touch The Moon

• Prize
  Silver in Special/Night Photography
• Photographer
  Pamela Chiang
• Technical Info
  1/8s, ISO1600, f8, full frame
• Photo Date
  09/06/2024
• Socials

The photo was taken during a crescent moon phase in Chiba, Japan. It captured a special moment of Tokyo Skytree and the crescent moon overlapping each other. It’s a single shot (not a composite image).

• Biography
  Pamela Chiang is a Taiwan-born photographer, shaped by a multicultural upbringing across Canada and the UK, and now based in Japan. Her work explores the quiet tension between nature and human presence, as well as the fragile boundary between memory and time. Moving between cities and remote landscapes, she seeks moments where the past and future seem to overlap—where stillness carries movement, and absence suggests presence. Through a restrained yet evocative visual language, her images invite viewers to pause, reflect, and reconsider the way we inhabit the world.
• Awards
  Prix de la Photographie de Paris (Px3) 2026, Non-professional, Gold, Bronze, Honorable Mention Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2025, Non-professional, Editorial - Environmental and Architecture - Interiors categories, Silver Award The JMPA 6th Internet Photo Contest, organized by the Japan Modern Photographers Association, the President of the Photographic Society of Japan Award International Photography Awards (IPA) 2025, Non-professional, Nature - Landscape, Honorable Mention The 85th International Photographic Salon, sponsored by the All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies (AJAPS) and the Asahi Shimbun, Honorable Mention Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2024, Non-professional, Special - Night Photography, Silver Award Prix de la Photographie de Paris (Px3) 2024, Non-professional, Special - Night Photography, Honorable Mention The 52nd All Japan Photography Exhibition 2024, sponsored by the All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies (AJAPS) and the Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo Award International Photography Awards (IPA) 2023, Non-professional, Special - Travel/Wanderlust, Honorable Mention Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2023, Non-professional, People/Life Style, Honorable Mention; Special/Night Photography, Honorable Mention; Special/Street Photography, Honorable Mention Sony World Photography Awards 2023, Open Competition, Travel, Shortlist Kitamura Camera Photo Contest 2023 Spring/Summer, Shortlist Kitamura Camera Photo Contest 2022 Autumn/Winter, Honorable Mention Shinjuku Tourism Photo Contest 2022, Shortlist