honorable mention
Ryoken Nishimura japan
title
The reality of the lake.
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entry description
These were taken this year in Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake.As it is the largest lake in Japan, there are many photographs of beautiful scenery of Lake Biwa in Japan. However, in the real world, trash is more noticeable than beautiful scenery.I put together as a series this time to convey the present of such Lake Biwa.The first photo is a crow gazing at Lake Biwa surrounded by abandoned empty cans. The crows are chased by humans and their homes are gone.The second picture is a refrigerator abandoned on the lake shore. There is a fallen tree that has fallen by the typhoon around the refrigerator. The refrigerator does not feel life, but from the fallen trees around it, you can see countless branches trying to live hard towards the sun even if it falls.The third photo is a sofa thrown away on a secluded lake shore. Now no one sits on the sofa that man made to sit.The fourth picture is the track of the excavator's caterpillar. A large scar was left on the quiet lake.The last photo is the footprints of birds and humans. The birds flee into the lake when humans came.We destroy the lives of nature and animals at our own convenience. Everyone should be able to see, but look away from that reality and only look at the beautiful parts. We should look more to reality and think again about coexistence with nature.back to gallery