Farmer Improvisation

• Prize
  Gold in Advertising/Self-Promotion
• Photographer
  Masumi Shiohara
• Website
  https://www.lensculture.com/masumi-shiohara

I am a fruit farmer. I'm also a breeder. Every day I fantasize about the fruits of my labor. During this time, I created five objects using fruits that came to me. For the grapes, I tried to create a variety that is impossible to breed. As for Buddha's Hand, I made a portrait of three of them side by side. For the pears, I cut two pears in half, one horizontally and one vertically, and put them together to create a work that was in focus from front to back.

• Biography
  Masumi Shiohara was born in 1974 in Nagano, Japan. He worked at a micro-machining company as a development engineer. After leaving the company, he took over the management of the family orchard from his parents and is now running a farm. While growing fruit here he became interested in capturing them into works of photographic art, a skill which he picked up by himself. The inspiration to capture these photographically originally came when he was requested to supply fruit on a branch to a botanical artist
• Awards
  Solo Exhibition: SONY IMAGING GALLERY, Tokyo, 2020 Solo Exhibition: 72 gallery, Tokyo, 2019 Solo Exhibition: Epson Imaging Gallery, Tokyo, 2018 2020 Monochrome Awards Fine Art-Category Non-Professional Honorable Mention 2019 SONY World Photography Awards 2019 Open Shortlist Still Life CHROMATIC AWARDS Still Life-Category Non-Professional 2nd Place ND Awards Nature-Macro-Category Non-Professional Honorable Mention International Garden Photographer of the Year(IGPOTY) competition13 Still Life Commended International Photography Awards(IPA)2019 Nature-Other-Category Non-Professional 2nd Place Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2019 Advertising/Catalogues Non-Professional Gold Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA)2019Advertising-Category Non-Professional 1st Place Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2019 Fine Art-Still Life Non-Professional Honorable Mention PDN TASTE Personal Work Amateur 1st place