Silver in Special/Special Effects / 2025 / Special / Special Effects

• Prize
  Silver in Special/Special Effects
• Photographer
  Hiroshi Kutomi, Japan
• Studio
  Roots Ltd
• Instagram
  hiroshikutomi

This series uses mirrors as symbolic portals between reality and illusion. By capturing reflections that are fragmented, distorted, or incomplete, the photographs explore the instability of identity and perception. The mirror does not reflect truth but a constructed, reversed self. Figures appear obscured or multiplied, suggesting the impossibility of a single, authentic identity. Through visual ambiguity, the work questions how we see ourselves and how we are shaped by context, expectation, and gaze.

Currently active across a wide range of fields, including advertising and magazines, specializing in
beauty, fashion, and portrait photography.

Career Overview

2007 Returned to Japan and established my base in Tokyo.

1999 Began working as a fashion photographer in London, UK.

1997 Worked as first assistant to Master Nick Knight, Fashion Photographer, in London.

1996 Moved to London, UK.

1994 Worked as an assistant to Master Kei Ogata, Fashion Photographer.

1991 Joined Sasaki Studio, a commercial photography company, in Tokyo.

Awards ipa ( International Photography Awards) 2025