Seawall. Ofunato, Japan

• Photographer
  Ben Huang
• Agency / Studio
  Lassman Studios
• Prizes
  Bronze in Architecture/Industrial

Japanese Government has been building 400km seawalls in the Northeastern region since the 2011 tsunami. Questions, however, has been raised whether if it will fend off future tsunami effectively should it comes.

Pengkuei Ben Huang is a Taiwanese/Canadian photographer based in Toronto, Canada. He earned his BFA in San Francisco in 2004 and was selected as Finalist for the Scotiabank Prize in 2007 at Magnum Workshop in Toronto. He has been living in Toronto since 2009 where he continue to work today.