Honorable Mention / 2024 / Fine Art / People

• Photographer
  Hajime Hirano, Japan
• Studio
  2525link
• Website
  https://2525link.net/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/2525link/

A ray of hope for something that is fading away. The word "FLY" suddenly came to mind, with its opposing meanings of "fly" and "flight," which are also evocative of death.

My hometown, Saga Prefecture, is hidden famous production area of wheat in Japan. I have taken 70,000 photos of wheat fields for the past 7 years. By fascination of those vitality, I obtained a trademark registration for "mugigrapher®︎," means "a photographer specializing in wheat and barley" in Japanese.
"Unusual always exists with usual days. Decay also exists with beauty." This perspective is connected to all of my photographic stances, including street snaps.

Awards I won "Sony World Photography Awards" 2023 Japan National Awards 1st Place and 2nd Place in the same category in 2024.