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 an award-winning 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 Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, L’Officiel, Oreo, NBA Arena, the Korean Times, and more.

His works have been collected and exhibited by many galleries all over the world and won more than 50 international photography awards, including International Photography Awards (IPA), The Prix de la Photographie, Paris Award (PX3), Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA), Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA), Siena Awards, and more.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics. Currently, he is dedicated to commercial photography, optics, and cryptocurrency technology. Before that, he worked as a scientist for University of Massachusetts Amherst and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland on nano optics. He has achieved course certificates about fashion design and styling from Parsons School of Design and Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design (London).