Yayoi Kusama X Botanic Garden of New York

• Prize
  Gold in Editorial/Fashion
• Photographer
  Frank Zhang
• Agency / Studio
  New York Dreamer
• Technical Info
  Camera: 5D Mark 4
• Photo Date
  2021

As a legend in contemporary artist, Yayoi Kusama has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan. The exhibition of Yayoi Kusama X Botanic Garden of New York (NYBG), titled as Cosmic Nature, “reveals her lifelong fascination with the natural world, beginning with her childhood spent in the greenhouses and fields of her family’s seed nursery.” (cited from the official website of NYBG) The ingenious marriage of Kusama’s installations at NYBG with fashion art leads to our fashion photography works.

• Biography
  Frank Zhang is a photographer, film producer, physicist, and entrepreneur based in New York. He directed, and shot photos and videos for many international brands and magazines, including Tiffany & Co., Oreo, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, L'Officiel. He works have won more than 65 awards and been collected and exhibited by many galleries all over the world, including Brazil online gallery-democrat.com.br, Vanities Gallery in Paris, Glasgow Gallery of Photography in UK, and artsy.net. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics. He is dedicated to commercial photography, optics, and cryptocurrency.
• Awards
  Nov 2022 Chromatic Awards 2022 One 1st Place and 5 “Honorable Mention” awards in Fashion / Beauty Category Nov 2022 Budapest International Foto Awards 2022, Budapest One “Gold” and one “Bronze” Awards in Editorial-Fashion category. Nov 2022 2022 ND Awards, New York One 2nd Place in People and 3 “Honorable Mention” awards Sept 2022 International Photography Awards 2022, Los Angeles One “Jury Top 5” award, two “Honorable Mention” and 5 “Official Selection” awards Aug 2022 The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2022, Paris One “Gold” award and one “Honorable Mention” award in Fashion Photography July 2022 International Photography Award (IPA) One Shot Contest themed “Color”, Los Angeles “Honorable Mention” Award at street photography category July 2022 International Photography Exhibition (IPE) 164 organized by the Royal Photographic Society, Bristol Shortlisted in IPE 164 June 2022 International Portrait Photographer of the Year 2022, New South Wales, Australia Awarded “Top 101” from 600+ portrait photographers from all over the world June 2022 Siena Creative Awards 2022, Siena Five finalists and one “Highly Commended (3rd class)” in beauty category April 2022 World Masters of Photography Award 2022, Vienna One “2nd place” award and One “Honorable Mention” in Fashion Editorial Category April 2022 No.8 Fine Art Photo Awards (FAPA), London One “3rd place” award in Fashion Editorial Category Dec 2021 2021’s Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA), Tokyo One “Gold Award” award and two “Honorable Mention” in Fashion