Choix des plus beaux fruits Fruit from my orchardMasumi Shiohara Photo ExibitionSony Imaging Gallery Ginza　Japan About Masumi ShioharaMasumi 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. He is printing ‘the works like botanical art with white back ground’ on vellum of genuine parchment, and ‘the works with a black background’ on glossy paper. From now on, he is keen to present works with the theme of the importance and value of food another line of work he is involved in.Exhibition 2018 Epson Imaging Gallery "epSITE". Awards 2019 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 PDN TASTE 2017 1st place * IPA 2017 - 1st Prize Winner - Food Category * IPA 2017 - 2nd Prize Winner - Food Category * IPA 2017 - 2nd Prize Winner - Other Category MIFA 2017 Non-Professional Category Winner Advertising　3rd Place Subcategory Winner Advertising-Food_AD [Gold] Subcategory Winner Advertising-Food_AD [Silver] Subcategory Winner Portfolio-Food [Bronze] * PX3 2017 - Bronze Winner - Fine Art Category * PX3 2017 - Silver Winner - Nature Category * PX3 2017 - Silver Winner - Monograph Category * PX3 2017 - Silver Winner - Other Category * PX3 2017 - Honorable Mention - Category 2016 ONAEBA Yumenokaki Project Grand prize TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) 1st Place Science

Professional roles: None of the above

Location: Japan