Generation
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Photographer
Tetsuo Kurita
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Prize
Honorable Mention
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Date of Photograph
2019
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Socials
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Website
The Tibetan boy lives in town with his parents. He visited his grandparents who lives in a small village in the mountains during summer vacation.
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Biography
Tetsuo Kurita from Nagoya, Aichi Japan, born in 1971, started his life in typical fashion. Obtaining MBA and on to a 17 year career as a chief executive for a Japanese company in China. However, Tetsuo Kurita was driven by his passions of photography and cultural anthropology.
Kurita left his business career and became a professional photographer capturing beautiful and poignant images of minority tribes and their traditions which are quickly disappearing in today’s modern world.