‘Turn Back’ is a global photography contest curated by cizucu, open to all creators. Through cizucu’s contests, outstanding works are curated from submissions, with the aim of discovering new talent as a platform and supporting the community as a whole.
This time, we present a selection of submissions and award-winning works from the ‘Turn Back’ contest, held under the theme ‘A Place You Wish to Return To’. Each participant has shared a place they long to revisit, accompanied by their captions. Please explore the photographs and enjoy them together with the artists’ words.
Featured Works
Image by lylayaki
lylayaki
📷 Apple | iPhone 15 Pro
cizucu Editorial Team
This image captures vibrant vegetables in Kyoto, a city renowned for its strict landscape ordinances. Sometimes, a city’s colors imprint themselves vividly in our minds. Color brings rhythm to a city, and that rhythm becomes intertwined with memory.
Image by dsuke087
dsuke087
“There was a time when just grass growing on the dirt was enough for a playground.”
📷 NIKON CORPORATION | NIKON 1 J5
cizucu Editorial Team
This work depicts an ordinary park. Yet, ‘ordinary’ is a word that holds no meaning for children. It reminds us of a time when everything we saw was endlessly fascinating.
Image by akdl
akdl
📷 SONY | ILCE-6300
cizucu Editorial Team
This photograph, submitted with thoughts of home, appears to show young people chatting under a cold sky. The accumulation of small memories etches unforgettable places into our hearts. How many places in a lifetime can we truly say we ‘love beyond words’?
Image by はくらく
はくらく
cizucu Editorial Team
This image captures a shop that was lost to fire. The people and places close to us quietly become a part of ourselves. When they are suddenly gone, it feels as if a piece of us has been torn away. Yet, no matter what happens, the fact that they existed and were part of us never disappears. Perhaps we take photographs to remember that truth.
Awarded Work
Image by morissy
morissy
📷 NIKON CORPORATION | NIKON D90
cizucu Editorial Team
“The place I want to return to always exists in my heart and in the record of photographs.” This phrase encapsulates the essential truth discovered through the ‘Turn Back’ contest. When the human capacity to forget collides with the desire not to lose something, we reach for our cameras. Even if it is a place we can never physically return to, photography will always take us on a journey through memory. For revealing this truth, we have selected this work as the awarded piece.
In Closing
We hope you enjoyed this feature.
Behind every work, even those we could not introduce, there is a reason for the shutter’s release—a story. This contest was a wonderful reminder of the importance of photography in our lives. We sincerely thank everyone for sharing their cherished memories.
We look forward to the next contest!