Ima Next - Anonymous

The juror for this month’s competition, photographer Shingo Wakagi has selected an extremely challenging theme, “ANONYMOUS.” Nowadays, with the spread of the internet and social media accelerating the diffusion of information, the voices of anonymous people and anonymous stories, in addition to those with power and fame, are attracting more and more attention by the second. In response to such a reaction, many photographic works counting the roots of people and history that are yet little known, or picturing personal topics yet dealing with universal themes are generated. Works employing found-photos often picked up from someone’s albums or postcards may also be considered “ANONYMOUS.” Considering the many perspectives “ANONYMOUS” can lead to, we are looking forward to seeing your photographs with your interpretation of what this theme could mean.