Reach for the Summit
Award: Graphite Pencil
Graphite Pencil / Photography / Creative Use of Budget / 2024
The Kanazawa High School Sumo Tournament is the ultimate stage for high school sumo in Japan. In its first post-COVID edition with spectators, it became essential to convey the allure of on-site spectating to the local residents.
As it is a summit showdown, we symbolically likened the pairing of wrestlers to "grand mountains." Monochrome photographs capturing swirling dust were used to create a sense of tension, and close-up shots, looking up at the wrestlers, authentically reproduced the unique sense of presence and the grandeur of the mountains, characteristic of on-site viewing.
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