Fashion 3rd place winner

As a legend in contemporary artist, Yayoi Kusama 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.

Frank Zhang is a photographer, film producer, physicist, and entrepreneur based in New York. He directed, and shot photos and videos for many international brands and magazines, including Tiffany & Co., Fashion Magazine Cosmopolitan, LOfficiel, Oreo, NBA Arena, the Korean Times, and Tmall.

His works was collected and exhibited by many galleries all over the world, including Brazil biggest online gallery-democrat.com.br, Vanities Gallery in Paris, Glasgow Gallery of Photography in Scotland, and the biggest online art platform-artsy.net.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics. In 2015 he founded Frank Zhang Media Lab at New York City, a lab to combine the cutting-edge digital media technology with art. He is dedicated to commercial photography, optics, and cryptocurrency technology. Before that, he worked for the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing at University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland on nano optics.