STILL ALIVE

• Prize
  Bronze in Nature/Flowers
• Photographer
  Miwako Iwamoto, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  2017/06
• Studio
  freelance photographer
• Socials
• Website
  https://miwakoiwamoto.com/

At the end of it’s life, a flower takes many appearances. Falling, deflating, dancing, spilling …The lighted flowers, embossed in shadow.Sometimes, as they approach the boundary of life and death, flowers have a grotesque beauty.Such beauty, only witnessed at the end of the flower’s life, is due to the nobility that exists as, courageously holding onto life, its form collapses closer to death, when, in a final expression of dignity, it succumbs to the ultimate dying moment.

• Biography
  Based in Tokyo, Japan. Completed Rochester Institute of Technology Fine Art Photography in the United States. With the theme of capturing beautiful moments in daily life, she continues to take photographs as a means of freeing herself from her own thoughts. She is interested in the relative emotional swings and atmospheric distortions that are created by the combination of photographs, and explores their effect on the viewer. In addition to expressing her introspective view of the world through a variety of subjects, she also combines "photography and words" in her creative work.
• Awards
  Exhibitions 2023 “When she gets butterflies in her stomach”solo exhibition maruseB1gallery Tokyo 2023 “ELECTRICAL NOSTALGIA”　group show maruseB1gallery Tokyo 2023 　”Open Call Exhibition 2023″ at glasgow gallery Scotland 2021　” Being | 4PM” solo exhibition NADAR TOKYO 2019　9th Discover the one Japanese Art 2019 in AbuDhabi 2019 　PHOTO CAMP 2019 PHOTO MARKET 2019 　Art Photograph group show vol.46, group show, RECTO VERSO GALLERY TOKYO 2019　 “STILL ALIVE“ PICTORICO Gallery TOKYO 2014　 “Untitle mole” Yellow Unicorn TOKYO Awards 2023　Official Selection Professional Fine Art-OtherIPA2023 2023　Official Selection Professional Book-Fine Art IPA2023 2022　Honorable Mention One Shot Photo Contest Refocus Awards2022 2021　Official SelectionProfessional Fine Art-Other TIFA 2021 2021　Official Selection Professional Fine Art-Other TIFA 2021 2021　Honorable Mention Special-Other Professional IPA 2020　ONAEBA vol.27 Julia Durkin Nominate 2020　Honorable Mention Fine Art-Portrait Professional IPA 2020　PX3 Bronze Nature/Flowers-Professional 2017　accepted CENTRAL PHOTO CONTEST accepted Nagoya 2014　accepted JPVAA WEB PHOTO CONTEST