Dignity 攝影 by Satoru Nakahara is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 攝影設計 Competition Category.

鐵攝影· 2021

Dignity 攝影

by Satoru Nakahara

Client: Satoru Nakahara

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 攝影 Category

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The Design

About Dignity 攝影

佢透過攝影,設計出一種「尊嚴」嘅意象。呢啲拍攝對象係喺日本各地隨處可見、樹齡超過100年嘅松樹同梅樹。呢類題材自古以來就常見於「墨繪」、水墨畫同屏風畫之中。佢喺影完相之後,調整咗曝光,並將呢啲物件配置喺白色方框之內。透過佢嘅作品,觀者可以想像背景嘅存在,並感受到一種「尊嚴」嘅氣息。因此可以講,佢嘅設計嘗試,係要打破繪畫同攝影之間嘅界線。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

Dignity 攝影是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Dignity 攝影將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Dignity 攝影因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

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.