Portrait of Fruit

• Photographer
  Masumi Shiohara
• Prize
  Silver in Advertising / Food
• Socials
• Website
  https://www.lensculture.com/masumi-shiohara

I am a fruit farmer. I make photographic works of the fruits I grow. I believe that growing crops is the same as raising your own children. In my case, it is fruit. In the shadow of the fruit that is being harvested, there are many thinned branches, flowers, and young fruit. In these works, the fruits that have reached adulthood are represented as if they were human figures.

• Biography
  Masumi Shiohara was born in 1974 in Nagano, Japan. He worked at a micro-machining company as a development engineer. After leaving the company, he took over the management of the family orchard from his parents and is now running a farm. While growing fruit here he became interested in capturing them into works of photographic art, a skill which he picked up by himself. The inspiration to capture these photographically originally came when he was requested to supply fruit on a branch to a botanical artist - since then he has continued producing photographic art works of fruit on a branch.
• Awards
  2020 Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Award Shortlist FAPA(FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ) HONORABLE MENTION ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2019 Bronze×3 2019 SONY World Photography Awards 2019 Open Shortlist Still Life FAPA(FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ) HONORABLE MENTION IGPOTY competition12 Portfolio Shortlist Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Award Shortlist ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2018 Silver×7 Bronze×2 Monochrome Awards HONORABLE MENTION TIFA2018(TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS2018) Gold 2018 CHROMATIC AWARDS 3rd Place ND Awards HONORABLE MENTIONS Spider Awards Nominee PDN Perspectives - PhotoPlus Expo 2018 Contest 1st Place IPA(INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS) 1st Place IPA Philippines 3rd Place PDN TASTE Personal Work 1st place MONOVISIONS PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, 2018 HONORABLE MENTIONS Photographer’s Forum Magazine Best of Photography Contest HONORABLE MENTIONS The FENCE 2018 Food winner PDN Exposure Photography Award Winner MIFA(MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS)New Talent of the Year Award TIFA2017(TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS2017) 1st place SONY World Photography Awards 2018 Open Shortlist Still Life FAPA(FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ) Nominee ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2017 Silver×7 Bronze×1 IGPOTY competition11 Portfolio : Highly Commended IPOTY 2017 Honorable Mentions*3 2017 ND AWARDS 2017 3rd place IPA One-Shot:Harmony Honorable Mention PDN TASTE 2017 1st place IPA 2017 - 1st Prize Winner - Food Category MIFA 2017 Non-Professional 3rd Place PX3 2017 - Silver Winner -Monograph Category 2016 ONAEBA Yumenokaki Project Grand prize TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) 1st Place Science