Imaginary Portraits of The Nonexistent

• Prize
  Silver in Special Categories/AI-Generated Images
• Photographer
  Hiromi Habuto
• Technical Info
  Portrait Photography Series,b&wphoto,ai-generated Images
• Photo Date
  2024/8

These monochrome portraits are built around imaginary sitters yet designed to trigger a lingering sense of déjà vu. Women stand in staged, exaggerated scenes and subtly humorous costumes, composed with quiet light and restrained gesture. The intent is to let photographic plausibility and fabricated detail inhabit the same frame: an image that reads as authentic because it obeys light, shadow, and surface, while remaining strange in its invented identity. Each picture holds that tension—calm on the surface, quietly unstable underneath.

Born in Yokohama in 1969, graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University in 1996 with a degree in Sculpture in the Fine Arts Course of the Faculty of Education. A media art artist, he has been involved in the production of TV commercials, music videos, and concert videos as a CG designer and director.