Honorable Mention
Forest of Impermanence
DESCRIPTION
The image captures the changing light patterns covering the vertical wooden columns of The Grand Ring of World Expo Osaka 2025 and the fleeting strangers from all walks of life under the gigantic forest-like architecture. It demonstrates the beauty of impermanence and life from Japanese culture through the interplay of light and shadow, geometric composition and interactions between humans and architecture of enormous scale. AUTHOR
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Gary Ng is an architecture photographer who travels the world searching for geometric perspectives and poetic interpretations of human interactions with space. In 2025, he became the first Hong Kong photographer to win in the Architecture Photography Awards, and his work has been internationally featured by Vogue, Tatler, Esquire, Domus, Designboom etc. Gary has been sharing architectural and travel photography content via Instagram since 2017, and has over 50,000 followers to date. 