People nominee

Broadway Tavern, a bar in Astoria, Queens, attracts pool players of all ages, races and professions. Based in this bar, several pool sharks formed an 8-ball league team and once every two weeks they travel to the other bars in the Queens area to play a match. As a member of this team, I have spent several years drinking and shooting every day, participating in practices and games. Forgetting the hustle and bustle of everyday life and devoting themselves to billiards and drinking, they shined as if they were living only for that moment in seriousness and foolishness.

My photography explores a wide range of human experience—a working class New England community, Japanese family relations and social customs, landscape and urban development, a non-cliche essay about cherry blossoms—reflecting Japanese aesthetics and interaction with nature.

Collections:
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Danforth Museum of Art, Fidelity Corporation, The Worcester Museum of Art, in Massachusetts, USA, and the Shionoe Museum, Shionoe, Japan, among others.

Awards:
2023 Analog Sparks, Bronze in Culture