23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
Silence
“It was summer—tourists passing, cicadas crying—yet this 200-year-old tree spoke only of silence. I made silence my theme: erasing all background but tiles and stone, lifting the tree above the ground. Only later did I learn it had fallen in winter snow.”
Photo Detail
| Date Taken: | 10.2023 |
| Date Uploaded: | 11.2025 |
| Photo Location: | Kyoto, Japan |
| Copyright: | © NAOKO TOSA |