L’Officiel X Yayoi Kusama X NYBG

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L’Officiel X Yayoi Kusama X Botanical Garden of New York (NYBG)

As a legend in contemporary artist, Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生) has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan. The exhibition of Yayoi Kusama X Botanic Garden of New York (NYBG), titled as Cosmic Nature, “reveals her lifelong fascination with the natural world, beginning with her childhood spent in the greenhouses and fields of her family’s seed nursery. Her artistic concepts of obliteration, infinity, and eternity are inspired by her intimate engagement with the colors, patterns, and life cycles of plants and flowers.” (cited from the official website of NYBG)

The ingenious marriage of Kusama’s installations at NYBG with fashion art leads to our fashion photography works. We are aimed to extend Kusama's art and passion on fashion. Some of this set were first featured in August Issue of L’officiel India @lofficielindia. Moreover, this set of photos have won many international photography awards and exhibited in several art exhibitions all over the world.

We are very glad to see this success and are still working hard in order to present more excellent artistic works in the near future.

Credit:

Photographer: Frank Zhang @frankzhangny

Stylist: Jeffrey Ampratwum @che__dior

Model: Mirjeta Shala @mirjetashala

Make-up and Hair Artist: Besjana Hoti @besjana05_

Jewelry and Accessories Artist: Maggie Wang @maggie_wang540

Lighting Assistant: Anthony Boateng @tonecorlyone

Stylist Assistant: Newt Hinds @xo.vinci

Retoucher: Darya Zagornaya @darya_dariart_retoucher

Awards:

This set of photos have won multi international photography awards as follows.

Sept 2022 reFocus Awards-One Shot Contest 2022, New York
1 “Honorable Mention” award in fashion category

Sept 2022 International Photography Awards 2022, Los Angeles
One “Jury Top 5” & 1 “Honorable Mention” awards in the category

of Advertising / Fashion

Aug 2022 The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2022, Paris
One “Honorable Mention” award in Fashion Photography

May 2022 2022 London Photography Awards, London
One “Gold Winner” award in Fashion Category

May 2022 2022 MUSE Photography Awards, New York City
One “Platinum Winner” in Editorial Photography - Editorial / Other

Category (professional division)

April 2022 World Masters of Photography Award 2022, Vienna
One “Honorable Mention” award in Fashion Photography
One “2nd place” award in Fashion Editorial Category

April 2022 No.8 Fine Art Photo Awards (FAPA), London
One “3rd place” award in Fashion Editorial Category (professional division)

March 2022 The 15th International Color Awards
Two “Honorable Mention” awards and two “Nominated” awards in

Fashion Category

Dec 2021 2021’s Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA), Tokyo
One “Gold Award” award in Fashion Editorial Category

(professional division)

Exhibitions:

Oct 2022 Group exhibition at Competa Photo Days, Spain

July 2022 Group exhibition at Tokyo International Photo Awards 2021, Tokyo

July 2022 Group exhibition at Tokyo International Photo Awards 2021,

Budapest House of Lucie

July 2022 Group exhibition at Tokyo International Photo Awards 2021,

Kashan House of Lucie