Bamboo Forest 艺术摄影 by Takeo Hirose is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 摄影与图片处理设计 Competition Category.

铜摄影· 2020

Bamboo Forest 艺术摄影

by Takeo Hirose

Client: Takeo Hirose

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 摄影 Category

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The Design

About Bamboo Forest 艺术摄影

广濑雄夫（Takeo Hirose）于1962年生于京都。2011年，日本遭受了巨大的地震灾难，他开始认真学习摄影。在地震中，他了解到美丽的场景并不是永恒的，但实际上却非常脆弱，并注意到为日本美女拍照的重要性。他的创作理念是用现代的日本感性和摄影技术来表达传统的日本画和水墨画的世界。在过去的几年中，他制作了带有竹子图案的作品，这可能与日本有关。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Bamboo Forest 艺术摄影是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Bamboo Forest 艺术摄影将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Bamboo Forest 艺术摄影出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

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