Masumi Shiohara was born in 1974 in Nagano, Japan. Graduated from the department of physics at the faculty of science in Toyama University. He worked at a micro-machining company as a development engineer. After leaving the company, he took over the management of the family orchard from his parents and is now running a farm. While growing fruit here he became interested in capturing them into works of photographic art, a skill which he picked up by himself. The inspiration to capture these photographically originally came when he was requested to supply fruit on a branch to a botanical artist - since then he has continued producing photographic art works of fruit on a branch. He is printing ‘the works like botanical art with white back ground’ on vellum of genuine parchment, and ‘the works with a black background’ on glossy paper. From now on, he is keen to present works with the theme of the importance and value of food another line of work he is involved in.

Exhibition
2018 Epson Imaging Gallery "epSITE".
Awards
2018
PDN Perspectives - PhotoPlus Expo 2018 Contest 1st Place
IPA(INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS) 1st Place
IPA Philippines 3rd Place
PDN TASTE Personal Work 1st place
MONOVISIONS PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, 2018 HONORABLE MENTIONS
Photographer’s Forum Magazine Best of Photography Contest HONORABLE MENTIONS
The FENCE 2018 Food winner
PDN Exposure Photography Award Winner
MIFA(MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS)New Talent of the Year Award
TIFA(TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS) 1st place
SONY World Photography Awards 2018 Open Shortlist Still Life
FAPA(FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ) Nominee
ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2017 Silver×7 Bronze×1
IGPOTY competition11 Portfolio : Highly Commended
IPOTY 2017 Honorable Mentions*3
2017
ND AWARDS 2017 3rd place
PDN TASTE 2017 1st place
* IPA 2017 - 1st Prize Winner - Food Category
* IPA 2017 - 2nd Prize Winner - Food Category
* IPA 2017 - 2nd Prize Winner - Other Category
MIFA 2017 Non-Professional
Category Winner Advertising　3rd Place
Subcategory Winner Advertising-Food_AD [Gold]
Subcategory Winner Advertising-Food_AD [Silver]
Subcategory Winner Portfolio-Food [Bronze]
* PX3 2017 - Bronze Winner - Fine Art Category
* PX3 2017 - Silver Winner - Nature Category
* PX3 2017 - Silver Winner - Monograph Category
* PX3 2017 - Silver Winner - Other Category
* PX3 2017 - Honorable Mention - Category
2016
ONAEBA Yumenokaki Project Grand prize
TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) 1st Place Science