Profile
Education
- Academy of Art University - Fine Art Photography
Professional Background
| 2000 | Founding Yoshimi Sugiyama Photography and Yoshiphoto.com |
| 2012 | Founding Rin Photo Arts LLC |
Award & Exhibition
| 1999 | AWARD: Medium Format Photo Contest at Kodak & Popular Photo Magazine (USA) |
| 2013 | EXHIBITION: “Japanese Garden” at The Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco. The Japan Information Center (USA) |
| 2013 | EXHIBITION & AWARD: “The Human Impact New Directions in Landscape” Photography WINNER(USA) |
| 2015 | AWARD: City of Okayama Korakuen 5th Photo contest WINNER (Japan) |
| 2016 | EXHIBITION & AWARD: 21st Artavita Art Exhibition Contest WINNER (USA) |
| 2017 | AWARD: A Design Award & Competition GOLD WINNER (Italy) |
| 2017 | ONE EYELAND World's Top 10 Landscape Photographers Photo Contest Finalist |
Yoshimi Sugiyama
As a fine art photographer, my work is about nature. However, it is creating a new dimension by showing the conflict between contrasting concepts such as Reality (tree) and Unreality (animistic spirit), Light and Shadow, Stillness (night / photograph) and Motion (emitting light), and Past and Present. The work itself is a unique hybrid of painting and photography. It is created by shining flashlights in the darkness.
My work also takes a form that challenges accepted ideas of what art should look like. The style of my work is expressive fine art, but my work can also be seen as mythology or cultural symbols. It appears artificially colored, but the balanced composition of nature and artifact is obviously intentional to show a mystical spiritual beauty in these photographs.