THEME #13Winners2020JUL
LANDSCAPE
SHORT LIST
Statement
EXPLORER
With the snow in Hokkaido, my place of origin, as the theme, I attempt new discoveries and synchronicity by sharing stories with the explorers in the photographs.
Profile
Ena Yanai
Born in 1977 in Sapporo
Selected exhibitions
2018 ""EXPLORER"", Hokkaido
2018 ""Head On Photo Festival : Displaced"" Sidney
2016 ""YOU ARE HERE"" Tokyo
After publishing 2 books, partiticpated to the artist resigency ""Mt.Rokko International Photo Festival"" in 2019
Jury selection
Ena Yanai’s images have a surreal sense of surveillance to them. But at the same time have this wonderful feeling that the humans in the pictures are discovering one of the joys of life for the first time.