Photojournalism: Honorable Mention 2019 (amateur)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The boss of a century-old tea house in Chengdu, China poured freshly boiled tea into multiple pots for distribution. Facing the pressures of societal transformation towards modernity and urbanization, old places upholding indigenous traditions such as this are an increasingly rare sight.
AUTHOR
One day, it stung like a violent wind that our memories depended on a faulty camera in our minds. That was when I decided to pick up a real camera, to immobilize the relentless passage of time, and sustain cathartic instances well into forever.
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