The Best Days (2026)

Yang Seungwoo’s photographs leave viewers wondering how he gets so close. For almost three decades, he has turned his lens on homeless people, yakuza, and others society has forgotten. Shot from startlingly intimate distances, his images are built through hours and days spent beside his subjects rather than through conventional reporting. He supports himself by cooking okonomiyaki on a festival street on Tokyo’s outskirts, and he became the first foreign photographer to receive the prestigious Domon Ken