Peace Photo Collage by Masaki Hirokawa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Golden A' Design Award in Photography and Photo Manipulation Design Competition Category.
GoldPhotography· 2023
Peace Photo Collage
Client: Dolice
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Photography Category
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About Peace Photo Collage
The design concepts conveyed by this collage are balance and harmony. Each of the hands around the woman reinforces the presence of the others, and the design falls apart if any of the hands are missing or placed out of balance. The woman and the multiple hands around her were conceived as an integrated design. Because each source material differs in size, brightness, and color from the others, each hand was manipulated individually to create a sense of coherence. This work gives form to a design hierarchy based on equality, as its title suggests.
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About the Golden A' Design Award
Peace Photo Collage is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Peace Photo Collage is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Peace Photo Collage creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Your innovative approach to balance and harmony in Peace Photo Collage beautifully addresses global unity during the pandemic - could you elaborate on how your personal experiences during this challenging time influenced the symbolic placement of hands around the central figure?
During the creation of “Peace Photo Collage” in June 2020, the world was grappling with unprecedented challenges brought about by the pandemic. The pervasive sense of isolation and fragmentation deeply affected me. Personally, I felt a profound need to convey a message of unity and collective resilience. The placement of multiple hands encircling the central female figure symbolizes the interconnectedness of humanity. Each hand represents different individuals coming together, transcending barriers of culture, race, and geography. My personal experience of witnessing global solidarity amidst adversity inspired me to depict this harmonious embrace, emphasizing that despite our physical separations, our spirits remain entwined.
The gold accents and precise pixel placement in Peace Photo Collage create a striking visual hierarchy - what inspired your decision to incorporate these specific aesthetic elements to convey your message of universal equality?
The use of gold accents in the collage serves as a universal symbol of value, purity, and enlightenment across various cultures. By integrating gold into the piece, I aimed to elevate the subjects, imbuing them with a sense of sacredness and worth. The meticulous pixel placement reflects my commitment to precision and harmony, ensuring that each element contributes meaningfully to the whole. This attention to detail was inspired by the concept of equality—every pixel, like every individual, holds significance in creating the complete image. The aesthetic choices were deliberate, intending to visually communicate that all lives are precious and interconnected, reinforcing the message of universal equality.
Peace Photo Collage demonstrates remarkable technical precision in blending multiple source materials - could you walk us through your meticulous process of adjusting brightness and color for each individual hand to achieve such seamless coherence?
The creation process involved carefully selecting and integrating various photographic elements, each with its unique lighting and coloration. I began by individually editing each hand in Adobe Lightroom, adjusting brightness, contrast, and color balance to establish a uniform visual tone. This was followed by precise placement in Adobe Photoshop, where I paid close attention to the angle, position, and scale to ensure natural interaction with the central figure. Layer masks and blending modes were utilized to harmonize shadows and highlights, creating a cohesive look. The challenge was to make disparate elements appear as if they were originally part of the same scene, requiring iterative refinements and a keen eye for subtle nuances in light and color.
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- Unique Properties
- The Japanese title of this work is "Peace," and as the title suggests, it was created with a wish for peace. The woman and the multiple hands around her have been conceived as an integrated design that signifies the manifestation of a higher being who will bring peace to the world. Drawing inspiration from the hope for love, harmony, and peace among humankind, this work gives form to a design hierarchy based on equality, as its title suggests.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 840 mm x Height 600 mm / Digital Media / Photo Collage
- Tags
- Photo Collage, Photo Manipulation, Graphic Design, Graphic Art, Fine Art
- Production Technology
- First, I edited each of the source materials separately and made a collage. Next, I added and corrected glow effects and brought everything together into a single image. Most processes were carried out using brushes, and there was a particular attention to detail with regard to adjustments to the brightness and colors also. Each of the source materials in this collage are placed with precision down to the pixel and edited elaborately so that they come together and form a single person.
- Design Challenge
- Since this collage features many source materials, I carefully edited each material individually by adjusting their brightness and colors to create a sense of coherence. I endlessly repeated the process of trial and error to make these adjustments, because even the slightest error in placement or the angle of the arm would throw everything off. I had a desire to put my heart and soul into this collage so that it would provide peace of mind to the viewer.
- Research
- My research falls under the category of visual representation and aims to nourish the minds of people, not only through material enrichment, but through peace of mind also. The number one objective of this collage is to provide peace of mind to the viewer. This collage comprehensively represents all core systems that allow human existence to prosper, including business, society, ideologies, and culture. It was created with the purpose of manifesting a god that brings peace to this world.
- Inspiration
- This piece was created with a heart of sorrow for the phenomenon that occurred during the spread of infectious diseases. All people are equal and all people have value. Regardless of their country of birth, language, color, wealth, or poverty, all living things have precious souls and irreplaceable lives. Great scholars and sinners, good people and bad people are all equally blessed by God and born.
- Project Duration
- This collage was created over the period of a week in June 2020 in a workshop in Tokyo, Japan.
- Operation Flow
- This is a collage of five hands placed around a woman. Given that each source material differs in size, brightness, and color from the others, each hand has been edited individually to create a sense of coherence. Furthermore, gold makeup has been applied, while each of the accessories has also been edited elaborately.
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