Honorable Mention / 2022 / Special / Special Effects

The PASSION

  • Photographer
    Tomoki Mori, Japan

It is a symbolic, modern expression of the Passion, reminiscent of the crucifixion of Christ, but here it refers to personal agony.
About 60% of an adult is composed of water. The glass represents the skeleton. So, they stand for the human body. The lemon, its yellow hazard color, expresses an incident. The overflowing red shows struggle, unable to cope with it. However, lemon is a vitamin-rich fruit. Vitamins are essential nutrients that the human body cannot produce.
Thus, it is also a metaphor for the positive possibilities that cannot be created by the inside alone but by external stimuli.

1985 born in Kyoto, Japan
My method is capturing an object more culturally, physiologically, or symbolically as a posteriori signifié by using me and the camera as a code to enhance the appealing performance of the message.

Intuitively, when the x-axis is time, and the y-axis is experiencing, the integral of experience is life, and the derivative is reaction. If the reaction changes, the experience will change, and the life will change.
I hope my emotional semiotic photography leads to viewers’ new sensibilities, powers of reaction, and a better future by working as a functional inspiration.

Awards [Awards]
2019| Best New Talent in Kyoto Present Age Photographic Contest 2019 (Organized by Kyoto Prefecture)
2022| NOMINEE in the 8th edition of Fine Art Photography Awards Professional Panoramic category
2022| Official Selection in IPA One Shot - Color, Abstract
2022| Honorable Mention PX3 Professional Nature Flowers
2022| Honorable Mention PX3 Professional Nature Seasons
2022| Honorable Mention PX3 Professional Special Special Effects
2022| Official Selection in IPA 2022, Professional Nature, Seasons×2
2022| Official Selection in IPA 2022, Professional Special-Panorama / Panoramic
2022| Official Selection in IPA 2022, Professional Architecture-Historic

[Exhibitions]
2019| Permanent exhibition Suzuki Art Gallery (Tokyo Ginza)
2020| Kyoto Present Age Photographic Contest Winners Memorial Exhibition (The Museum of Kyoto)
2021| Art Fair Tokyo 2021 (Tokyo International Forum)