Wildlife/Animals nominee

"Take Ni Tora" (Bamboo and Tiger) is a metaphor for a picture-perfect combination in Japan, and it is a well-known motif drawn by many old Japanese painters.
I created the works with such traditional motifs by combining the advantages of photography and painting, that is, precision and omission.

Takeo Hirose was born in Kyoto, 1962. After graduate of Hitotsubashi University, he has been working for several famous food companies.
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.