Honorable Mention / 2022 / Nature / Flowers

• Photographer
  Tomoki MORI, Japan

“A spring night’s dream” is a metaphor for fragile and short-term things.
The truth that all things in the world are impermanent and that all glories must fade still exists as a traditional sense of beauty in Japan.
In modern times, cherry blossoms express them most effectively.
Is the life of life as meaningless as a bubble? I believe that because life is ephemeral, the way life tries to pass it on from one generation to the next, like a river, radiates a luster that can be called eternal.

Comparison of transience: Bubbles (instantaneousness) > cherry blossoms > river (eternity)

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)