White Wounds

• Prize
  Gold in Editorial/Environmental
• Photographer
  Yukio Nodo
• Technical Info
  270sec, ISO 100, F2.8, 38mm, Full Frame
• Photo Date
  20th March 2025

This is a nightscape of Mt. Bukō and a cement factory in Chichibu, Japan, taken the night after snowfall. The summit of the mountain, exposed by decades of limestone mining, reflects the snow clearly without being hidden by trees. In this single frame, the coexistence of human industry — carving and transforming the mountain — and the quiet presence of Mt. Bukō, which has watched over this land through generations, is captured. It is a dialogue between nature and livelihood, between permanence and transformation.

I am a Japan-based landscape and nightscape photographer. My work explores landscapes not simply as scenery, but as places shaped by the quiet interplay of light, time, and the broader rhythms of nature. I am drawn to moments where the movements of the Earth and the sky intersect with traces of human presence. Rather than seeking dramatic spectacle, I focus on subtle transitions: how light shifts and how time settles into the land. Photography, for me, is a way of tracing these invisible layers and preserving fleeting relationships between the Earth, the sky, and the places we inhabit.