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Kumano Cherry

A new cherry tree "Kuma no Sakura" was discovered in the small town of Kozagawa in Japan during 100 years. A new type of cherry tree in a small town with little industry is expected as a new tourism resource for the town. This project aims to make "Kuma no Sakura" a tourist attraction in the city. Many people take pictures of the beautiful "Kumano Sakura" and send it to many people.

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Mirage de Parc

The Project is a photography project that showing architectures. And also, it delivered each meaning through different spots such as structures and buildings. This work shows his wonder to the new island. When looking at the yellow lines shining by the light of the project, they are shaped into a mirage-like design in the middle of the desert. There is a spatial design that is wide enough to be divided into long curved line.

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Koepenick Waterfront

The pictures differ in that it is not a well-known photos of large cities such as New York, Shanghai and Singapore with their skylines on the water, but shows a smaller city that also offers interesting views even if it is unknown. The photos are intended to show the colors of the night which one usually discovers only when it is dark and one makes long-term recordings. The images were not heavily processed, just aligned, spots and noise removed and black and saturation adjusted.

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Fine Art Photography

Digital photographs created by stitching up to a hundred individual exposures together. Post-production using Adobe Photoshop gives the images a painterly, artistic feel. The detail and clarity of a photograph yet the feel of an old master painting gives the photographs an artistic conflict: a conflict between looking at a real subject with all the detail and clarity of a photograph, but the artistic treatment removes the literal feel to give an unreality to the scene. Printed 60 x 90 inches or larger reminds us of the grand scale of old master paintings, not photography.

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Bamboo Forest

Takeo Hirose was born in Kyoto, 1962. He started studying photography in earnest in 2011 when Japan suffered from the huge earthquake disaster. Through the earthquake he understood that the beautiful sceneries are not eternal but actually very fragile, and noticed the importance of taking photos of the Japanese beauty. His production concept is to express the world of traditional Japanese paintings and ink paintings with modern Japanese sensibility and the photo technology. For the past few years he has produced the works with a motif of bamboo, which can be associated with Japan.

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Behind Glory

This is a photographic documentary of Wugang, the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company. Supported by the Russian and built in 1958, the state-owned Wugang is one of the biggest steel factories in China and once signified the industrialization and modernization of the country. However, such industry causes severe environmental pollution. Through capturing the heavily polluted Wugang campus with somber images, this project reveals the price paid and the consequence behind the glory of modernization and economic prosperity, provoking the viewers into the search of a clean and healthy environment.

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