Greetings reader,
Last year, I made the decision to start entering my image into various contests and award competitions. I’m happy to announce that a series of my images, collectively known as “United We Stand”, has won a “gold” award for the non-professional architecture/building photography category at the 2019 Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA). The “gold” award basically means I received an high honorable mention, and to the best of my knowledge I finished in the top 10 of the “Architecture” category. On top of this, it seems I also finished second in the “Buildings” category, as only the second place winner for the “Architecture” category is above mine, but it’s also entirely possible they don’t rank them quite like that. Anyway, mine was only one of two images to finish with a “gold” award in the “buildings” category, which is nice, considering I’ve only been doing this style of photography for just over a year.
As I reside in Japan, I’m considered a “Japanese” photographer, which appears to mean one of my images will be exhibited at the Shibuya Cultural Center Owada between March 22-26, 2020, alongside the first and second place winners, and the gold/silver/bronze winners residing in Japan. I believe this means they will be printing my image and displaying it in the gallery, and not just projecting it on a screen, but I can’t be entirely sure, right now, as I was just informed, on Thursday. If you live in, around, or are planning to visit the Tokyo area, I encourage everyone to check out this exhibition and support both professional and non-professional photographers. I’m planning to go, but I haven’t decided exactly when, for how long, or how many times, so I’ll update that on my Facebook page, when I make a decision. I don’t image anyone cares about meeting me, so I’ll probably only hang around as long as I need to take in everyone’s award winning work. If you happen to be there, and see me, come say hi.
The image I’ve chose to have displayed is one of my personal favourites “Land of the Giants”, which is among the first of my abstract architecture shots.
You can see the entire collection of my images here: United We Stand - with “Land of the Giants” as the lead image.
I have entered a few more contests/award competitions, but there are a lot of skilled hobbyists out there, so I don’t expect to win anything else, this year, but here’s to hoping this is the first of many!
Thanks for reading.
Exhibition information:
Date: March 22-26, 2020
Address: 23-21 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya City, Tokyo 150-0031
〒150-0031 東京都渋谷区桜丘町２３−21