Tomohide Ikeya's photostream  

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1974 Born in Kanagawa,Japan
1992-1999 Work as a chef in an Italian restaurant
2000 Assistant to CARATS(Katsuji Tkasaki etc..)
2002 Start working as a freelance

Awards

International Photography Awards 2007 1st place in Advertising (self promotion) for "WAVE”
PX3 PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS "WATER" Competition 2008 Honorable Mentions for "WAVE"&"BREATH"
International Photography Awards 2009 1st place in People (other) for "BREATH”
International Photography Awards 2009 2nd place in Special (moving images) for "BREATH”
International Photography Awards 2009 2nd place in Advertising (catalogue) for "Nude Jewelry”
Xto image award 2010 1st place in Body in Nature for “BREATH”
PX3 PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS 2010 2nd place in Fine art (nudes) for "BREATH"

Exhibition & Art Fair

Mar-Apr.2007 ”水宇 SUIU“ at CAMARADA(Tokyo)
Oct.2007-2008 IPA ”Best of show”(Global 8 Places)
May.2008 IPA ”Best of show Portrait Edition” at Farmani Gallery (NY)
July.2008 “BREATH” at epSITE (Tokyo)
Dec.2008 “BREATH” at Nagaoka Institute of Design Gallery (Niigata)
Feb.2009 “y-generation -six rising photographers Exhibition” at SEIBU Shibuya (Tokyo)
Dec.2009 contemporary art fair “Shibuya Style Vol.3” at SEIBU Shibuya (Tokyo)
Dec.2009 “PHOTO TAIPEI” at Tha Westin Taipei (Taipei/GALLERY KOGURE)
Mar.2010 “BREATH” at LOWER AKIHABARA.(Tokyo)
July.2010 “BREATH” at Micheko Galerie (Munich)
Nov.2010 “ULTRA003 Art Fair” at Spiral Garden (Tokyo/GALLERY KOGURE)
Nov.2010 “Five people, for whatever reason, we are...” at Kanagawa Support Center (Yokohama)
Feb.2011 “AHAF HK” at Mandarin Oriental (Hong Kong/GALLERY KOGURE)
Nov.2011 “nofound PHOTOFAIR” (Paris/Micheko Galerie)

Artist’s statement

I'm a photographer who has a concept of "Control" for my work.
Water is one of "uncontrolled" things which the human being never can to do.
I had a lot of opportunities to think about ‘water’ with doing scuba diving in several countries as a hobby.
The beauty of sunshine viewed from under water, daily life of aquatics and me as human just be able to see their world for a moment...
We thought human could control water if we had lots of equipments and cared for risks in water, but human never be able to live in water. And we also never be able to live without water.
Water doesn’t only give a life, but also takes a life. On the other hand, water is not the Mother of Creation or the Master of Destruction, it’s just be there as ‘water’.
Water is a philosophical existence very much even be as ’just water’. I had been fascinated with water more and more and I had gotten a zeal for expression it.
It is one of reasons which I became a photographer, so I have been creating my works which has a relation with water.
I'm expressing "enthusiasm for life" by photography throughout the figure of Water and Human.