"11th Hokkaido Expressway Four Seasons Photo Contest" Winners Decided!
-The largest number of entries and award-winning works in the "Landscape with Expressway
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- "11th Hokkaido Expressway Four Seasons Photo Contest" Winners Decided!
February 26, 3rd year of Reiwa
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Hokkaido Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Hokkaido Regional Head Office (Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo) asked Ryusuke Ito of Hokkaido Kyoiku University Expressway Four Seasons Photo Contest", which solicited works from April to December 2020 After a rigorous examination by the professor, 13 award-winning works (attached sheet [PDF: 2.7MB]) were selected from 181 people and 671 entries. Doto Expressway" was selected as the highest award in the "Landscape with Expressway" category, which received 118 entries, the highest number ever.
(Received the highest award in the "Landscape with a Expressway
(Received the highest award in the "Four Seasons of Hokkaido" category)
This contest is the province of the Expressway for the purpose of compelling outgoing landscape familiarity of the building and of Hokkaido to an event that has been held since 2008 (2008). Province of Expressway work that has become part of the landscape "of the target Expressway work that expresses a landscape" sector and the Hokkaido four seasons is looking for work in two categories of "Hokkaido four seasons" department of the subject, the "a landscape of Takamichi road" department, "the highest level of work in the history of this department," were received.
Winning works, April 22 (Thursday) from 3 days, in addition to the exhibition at the exhibition to be held in Sapporo Bahnhofstrasse underground pedestrian space (Chi Ka e) event space, NEXCO EAST website" DraPla" in a dedicated page It will be posted to. In addition, entries will only be posted on the service area parking area of the province around, NEXCO EAST Hokkaido Regional Head Office of the Twitter official account (Attoe_nexco_kita will introduce, for example).
[Outline of the exhibition]
- Date and time April 22nd (Thursday) to 24th (Saturday) 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Place "Chi Ka Ho" North 1 East Event Space
Commentary by the judge, Professor Ryusuke Ito
In 2020, the number of applicants for this contest was slightly reduced, reflecting the sharp decrease in tourists from Japan and overseas to Hokkaido due to the global epidemic of the new coronavirus and the refraining from going out. On the other hand, the number of works that are technically superior compared to the average year was collected, that is, there were many entries for works with a high degree of "seriousness", and it was more difficult to judge.
In particular, the "Expressway" section has the highest level of work in the history of this section. Among them, Sachiko Miura's "Golden Doto Expressway", which won the highest award, was a work that beautifully packed the beauty of autumn Hokkaido into one frame.
We received many beautiful night scenes that made full use of long exposures, correction of brightness and color tones with development software and image processing software, and emotional productions that used backlight. Speaking of works that make use of photography and development technology, it can be said that "Yotei no Yoru" by Yoshikazu Jimbo, who won the highest award in the "Four Seasons of Hokkaido" category, is the first.
It was a year when I was forced to refrain from traveling and going out, but it was a contest that made me feel a great attraction for the four seasons I met in the photos.
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Ryusuke Ito
Born in Sapporo in 1963. Videographer. In the field of art film and video art, he makes presentations at film festivals and museums in Japan and overseas. Currently, he is involved in the education of video and media art including photography at Hokkaido Kyoiku University. There are also many manga reviews under the name of "Kenji Murasame". Professor, Imaging Laboratory, Department of Arts and Sports Culture, Hokkaido Kyoiku University. Completed the Graduate School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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