I am a fruit farmer, breeder, and photographer. This grape was growing in the vineyard in this state. It is not an image composition. I made this object in the vineyard. This is a delicate work that requires the experience and intuition of a farmer. The reason why I made this is just an improvisation that I want to do something different in my daily farming work. I think it was because I wanted to make grapes that were impossible to breed as a breeder.
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.
