Bamboo Forest Fine Art Photography by Takeo Hirose is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Photography and Photo Manipulation Design Competition Category.
BronzePhotography· 2020
Bamboo Forest Fine Art Photography
by Takeo Hirose
Client: Takeo Hirose
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Photography Category
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About Bamboo Forest Fine Art Photography
Takeo Hirose was born in Kyoto, 1962. He started studying photography in earnest in 2011 when Japan suffered from the huge earthquake disaster. Through the earthquake he understood that the beautiful sceneries are not eternal but actually very fragile, and noticed the importance of taking photos of the Japanese beauty. His production concept is to express the world of traditional Japanese paintings and ink paintings with modern Japanese sensibility and the photo technology. For the past few years he has produced the works with a motif of bamboo, which can be associated with Japan.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Bamboo Forest Fine Art Photography is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Bamboo Forest Fine Art Photography is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Bamboo Forest Fine Art Photography splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
All my works are based on Japanese beauty. I aim to create works that are quiet, do not interfere with others, and make the surrounding air fresh.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
I created works in search of the beauty of bamboo forests. As a result, I found that the characteristic shape of bamboo is more important than color, and I pursued a style that can express it more strongly.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I plan to express the beauty of Japan that I feel in various ways with the bamboo forests as a motif.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- For the past few years the designer has produced the works in the motif of bamboo, which can be associated with Japan. In the project, he is trying to seize the reason why bamboo images strongly associates with Japan.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Print size / A3 (297mm X 420mm)
- Tags
- bamboo, B&W, japan, oriental, monochrome, kyoto, asia, zen, cool, relax, suibokuga
- Production Technology
- The designer thinks the distinctive characteristics of bamboo are even more attractive in monochrome images using the modern techniques of photography.
At first he takes color photos, and develops them to monochrome images with photoshop and other sophisticated tools.
For development he uses Dell 8K monitor to express delicate touch and light & shade. - Design Challenge
- Bamboo itself is very common in Japan, however it is not easy to extract the Japanese beauty from the common motif and create different types of works.
The designer has been trying to get close image to old Japanese paintings and Suibokuga (Japanese ink painting) by creative methods. - Research
- The shots from bottom to top is suitable for expression of dignitiy of baoboo forests, while the designer found that the position of each bamboo is very important for the beauty of works.
He found the cyanotype tone suits the atmosphere of the bamboo forests most, and they look like contemporary Suibokuga. - Inspiration
- Modern photo artists like Hiroshi Sugimoto and Andreas Gursky inspire the designer so much. However old Japanese artists like Hokusai, Hasegawa Tohaku, Zyakuchu, Ogata Korin etc. also inspire him a lot.
- Project Duration
- The project started in November 2016 in Kyoto and finished in December 2018 in Kamakura.
- Operation Flow
- The designer has visited many places of beautiful bamboo forests in Japan. He has also visited several night festivals at which bamboo forests are illuminated.
Actually, there are so many bamboos in Japan, however most are too dense or not trimmed by human, and such bamboo forests are not suitable for his works. - Image Credits
- All images by Takeo Hirose
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