Dignity Fotografie by Satoru Nakahara is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Eisen in Fotografiedesign Competition Category.

EisenFotografie· 2021

Dignity Fotografie

by Satoru Nakahara

Client: Satoru Nakahara

A' Design Award in Eisen Winner in Fotografie Category

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The Design

About Dignity Fotografie

Er gestaltete durch Fotografie ein Werk mit dem Titel „Dignity". Die Objekte sind Kiefern und Pflaumenbäume, die überall in Japan zu finden sind und über 100 Jahre alt sind. Diese wurden seit alten Zeiten in „Sumi-e" und Tuschmalerei sowie auf Stellschirmen dargestellt. Nach der Aufnahme passte er die Belichtung an und komponierte die Bilder in weißen Quadraten. Durch seine Arbeiten kann der Betrachter den Hintergrund imaginieren und die Präsenz als „Würde" empfinden. Daher lässt sich sagen, dass sein gestalterischer Ansatz darauf abzielt, die Grenzen zwischen Malerei und Fotografie aufzulösen.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Eisen

Dignity Fotografie ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Eisen, einer prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für gute Designs, die die beruflichen und industriellen Anforderungen erfüllen, die an gut gestaltete Schöpfungen gestellt werden. Eisen-Gewinner zeigen großes Können, hohe Spezialisierung, fachkundiges Verständnis und die kreative Kapazität ihrer Schöpfer. Von Dignity Fotografie wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgeschätzte, bewunderte und geliebte Schöpfung ist, die praktisch und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Eisen prämierte Design integriert bewährte Branchenverfahren und weist kompetente technische Merkmale in Verbindung mit Know-how und Talent auf. Dignity Fotografie wird für seine Gründlichkeit geschätzt und ist darauf ausgelegt, Verbesserungen der Lebensqualität zu liefern, die dazu beitragen, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This project is to design a "Dignity" by photography. The subjects are trees that are trying to live and survive everywhere unnoticed by anyone in the city now. They have not said anything and made their appearance for a long time. So this project tried to design by photography for expressing these natural appearance in the white square framework as the most beautiful composition.
Dimensions & Packaging: These photographs were taken with fine mode and size are 6016×4016 by Nikon Z5. And all are digitized and JPG files. These original sizes are from 6 to 12 Mega-bytes. For this project, these were changed to the square framework and black and white. These were changed by using Adobe photoshop.
Tags: Photography, Nature Photo, Black and white, Pine tree, Japanese Nature
Production Technology: These photographs were taken by Nikon's digital camera. These were considered the most beautiful position and form inside the square framework. And in the home studio, these photos have changed the exposure by using photoshop to be shaped more lively and most beautiful appearance.
Design Challenge: The most difficult is to find objects in the city and to compose the best position to get the empty white background. To delete eliminate waste and discomfort, its appearance stands out more. This makes it possible to express of photography the abstract concepts of "Yugen" and "looseness" in traditional Japanese art culture. This is challenging for new design's possibilities to fuse with Art and photography, the Western and Eastern concept.
Research: This project has the background of ink paintings and "Sumi-e," folding screen painting. That objects are natural things that show the beauty in the four seasons, such as pine, bamboo, plum, flowers in the mountains and river. This project tried to express these forms by black and white photography as the most beautiful appearance in the square.
Inspiration: This project's idea came up suddenly at one time in the city. It is the moment when appears the beautiful appearance in the trees and plants. These were the existence casually that seen everywhere but have not been noticed. It is meaningful for design to clarify the beautiful appearance of life that has been created over a long period. In addition that this project concept is from ink paintings and "Sumi-e," folding screen painting in Japanese and Chinese art and culture.
Project Duration: This project started in May 2020 in Numazu, Japan, and finished in February 2021.
Operation Flow: This project by photography was being able to create a beautiful appearance from the trees that usually and casually were seen. In these photos to create a more beautiful appearance, it selected the black and white photography and square framework.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Satoru Nakahara, 2020_2021
Image Credits: Image #1:Photographer Satoru Nakahra,2020,Numazu.
Optional Image #1:Photographer Satoru Nakahra,2020,Numazu. Optional Image #2:Photographer Satoru Nakahra,2020,Numazu. Optional Image #3:Photographer Satoru Nakahra,2021,Shimizu.
Optional Image #4:Photographer Satoru Nakahra,2021,Numazu.