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Bronze 2026 Fine Art / Collage

Architectures of the Self

  • Photographer
    Tomohiko Funai
  • Prize
    Bronze in Fine Art / Collage

This series uses levitation and repetition to explore how identity is shaped by structure. A single figure appears multiple times within rigid architectural systems, occupying the same space in parallel. Through precise spatial alignment and constructed multiplicity, the work examines how the self is organized, multiplied, and constrained by the environments it inhabits. Suspended between control and weightlessness, individuality exists within order, and presence becomes architectural.

I am a self-portrait, non-photoshopped levitation photographer. I was influenced by a contemporary artist, Natsumi Hayashi, and her "Today's Levitation" series in 2011. Under a concept named "Zero Gravity", I create the world of zero gravity and the life of the "levitator", who have been freed from the force of the gravity, through self-portrait photography. I have been awarded by over 70 photography competitions held in and out of Japan, and were featured in various media such as national televisions, radio, YouTube, magazines, and online articles.

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