Masumi Shiohara was born in Nagano Prefecture. He worked as a development engineer at a microfabrication manufacturer. After leaving the company, he took over his family's orchard from his parents, and is now running the farm. He is also involved in breeding and has developed a number of varieties. Awards, Nominations 2022 Shortlist: Sony World Photography Awards 2022, Open Competition, Object Category Finalist, International Garden Photographer of the Year, Competition15, Portfolio Shortlist: Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Award 2022, Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year - Produce Category Gold: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA), Professional, 2021 Advertising / Self-Promotion Honorable Mention: Monochrome Awards 2021, Fine Art Category Nominee: Fine Art photography Awards FAPA 8th, Conceptual 2021 Top 50 Photographers: Critical Mass 2021 https://www.photolucida.org/critical-mass/top-50/ Top10: Lens Culture, Critics' Choice 2021, Critics' Pick https://www.lensculture.com/2021-lensculture-critics-choice-award-winners Finalist: Critical Mass 2021 FIRST SELECTION: ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE 15, Photographic Art https://artelaguna.world/arte-laguna-prize-15-1st-selection-results/ Highly Commended: RHS Royal Horticultural Society ,Photographic Competition2021, Creative Shortlist: Sony World Photography Awards 2021, Open Competition, Object Category 2020 Jury top 5 Selection: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2020, Professional https://www.tokyofotoawards.jp/jury-top-5/?comp=tokyo&comp_year=2020 1st Place: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Professional, Still Life Gold: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2020, Professional, Fine Art-Still Life Silver: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2020, Professional, Advertising-Food Gold: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2020, Professional, Portfolio-Advertising Silver: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2020, Professional, Portfolio-Food Silver: Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2021, Professional, Advertising / Food Bronze: Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2021, Professional, Advertising / Calendar Official Selection: London International creative competition 2020, Professional, Shoot(Photo/Video) Honorable Mention: Monochrome Awards 2020, Conceptual Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2020, Professional, Advertising/Catalogues Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2020, Professional, Advertising/Calendar Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2020, Professional, Advertising/Conceptual Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2020, Professional, Nature/Other Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2020, Professional, Nature/Flowers Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2020, Professional, Fine Art/Still life Bronze: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2020, Professional, Fine Art/Other Bronze: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2020, Professional, Advertising/Food Bronze: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2020, Professional, Advertising/Other Honorable Mention: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Professional, Still Life Honorable Mention: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Professional, Fine Art Honorable Mention: Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2021, Professional, Advertising-Food Honorable Mention: MONOVISIONS AWARDS 2021, Fine Art Category Honorable Mention: SpiderAwards16th, Professional/Still life Honorable Mention: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Professional, Fine Art Honorable Mention: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Professional, Still Life Nominee: SpiderAwards16th, Professional/Still life 2020 Shortlist: Sony World Photography Awards 2020/Japan Awards, Open Competition, Still Life Category Gold: Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2020, Professional, Portfolio-Food Silver: Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2020, Professional, Portfolio-Advertising Silver: Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2020, Professional, Advertising-Food Bronze: Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2020, Professional, Nature-Flowers 2nd Place: International Photography Awards 2020：Professional/Fine Art-Still life 2nd Place: International Photography Awards 2020：Professional/ Advertising-Conceptual Gold: Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2020, Professional, Advertising/Catalogues Silver: Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2020, Professional, Advertising / Food Finalist: Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Award 2020, Pink Lady® Apple a Day Category Honorable Mention: MONOVISIONS AWARDS 2020, Fine Art Category Nominee: Fine Art photography Awards FAPA 2019/2020, Open Theme Nominee: Fine Art photography Awards FAPA 2019/2020, Open Theme Nominee: SpiderAwards15th, Amateur/Still life Honorable Mention: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Professional, Still Life Honorable Mention: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Professional, Fine Art Honorable Mention: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Professional, Conceptual Honorable Mention: ND AWARDS 2020, Professional, Nature–Other Honorable Mention: Monochrome Awards 2020, Conceptual Category Gold: Moscow International Foto Awards2020, Non-Professional, Advertising-Food Gold: Moscow International Foto Awards2020, Non-Professional, Portfolio-Food Bronze: Moscow International Foto Awards2020, Non-Professional, Science-Other Bronze: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2019, Non-Professional, Advertising/Catalogues Bronze: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2019, Non-Professional, Advertising/Food Bronze: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2019, Non-Professional, Fine Art/Still life Official Selection: London International creative competition 2019, Non-Professional, Photography 2019 Shortlist: Sony World Photography Awards 2019, Open Competition, Still Life Category 2nd Place: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Non-Professional, Still Life-Category 3rd Place: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Non-Professional, Conceptual Honorable Mention: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Non-Professional, Nature Honorable Mention: CHROMATIC AWARDS, Non-Professional, Fine Art Commended: Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Award 2019, Food Stylist Category Commended: International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY), Competition 13 Still Life 2nd Place: International Photography Awards (IPA) 2019, Non-Professional, Nature-Other-Category Gold: Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2019, Non-Professional, Advertising/Catalogues Gold: Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2019, Non-Professional, Book Cover Silver: Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2019, Non-Professional, Fine Art / Still Life 1st Place: Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2019, Non-Professional, Advertising-Category Gold: Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2019, Non-Professional, Portfolio-Category 1st place: PDN TASTE, Amateur, Personal Work Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2018, Non-Professional, Advertising/Calendar Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2018, Non-Professional, Advertising/Catalogues Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2018, Non-Professional, Advertising/Conceptual Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2018, Non-Professional, Advertising/Food Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2018, Non-Professional, Product/Still life Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2018, Non-Professional, Fine Art/Other Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2018, Non-Professional, Fine Art/Still Life Bronze: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2018, Non-Professional, Nature/Other Bronze: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2018, Non-Professional, Advertising/Other 2018 Shortlist: Sony World Photography Awards 2018, Open Competition, Still Life Category Winner: The FENCE 2018, Food-Category https://fence.photoville.com/the-holy-fruition/ Highly Commended: International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY), Competition 11 Portfolio 1st Place: International Photography Awards (IPA) 2018, Non-Professional, Advertising-Food New Talent of the Year Award: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2018, Non-Professional Advertising https://www.moscowfotoawards.com/winners/moscow/2018 1st Place: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2018, Non-Professional Advertising Gold: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2018, Non-Professional, Advertising-Food Gold: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2018, Non-Professional, Fine Art-Still Life Gold: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2018, Non-Professional, Science-Other Gold: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2018, Non-Professional, Portfolio-Food Bronze: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2018, Non-Professional, Advertising-Food Bronze: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2018, Non-Professional, Fine Art-Still Life 3rd Place: CHROMATIC AWARDS Non-Professional, Still Life-Category Honorable Mention: CHROMATIC AWARDS Non-Professional, Fine Art-Category 1st Place: PDN Perspectives – Photo Plus Expo 2018 Contest 1st place: PDN TASTE, Amateur, Personal Work-Category Winner: PDN Exposure Photography Award Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2017, Non-Professional, Advertising/Calendar Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2017, Non-Professional, Advertising/Catalogues Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2017, Non-Professional, Advertising/Conceptual Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2017, Non-Professional, Advertising/Food Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2017, Non-Professional, Fine Art/Other Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2017, Non-Professional, Nature/Other Silver: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2017, Non-Professional, Fine Art/Still Life Bronze: ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2017, Non-Professional, Advertising/Other Honorable Mention: MONOVISIONS AWARDS 2018, Fine Art Category Honorable Mention: International Photography Awards (IPA) 2018, Non-Professional, Advertising-Food Honorable Mention: Monochrome Awards 2018, Abstract Category Nominee: Fine Art photography Awards FAPA 2017/2018, Conceptual Nominee: BLACK & WHITE Spider Awards 13th, Amateur, Still Life Nominee: BLACK & WHITE Spider Awards 13th, Amateur, Fine Art Honorable Mention: ND AWARDS 2018, Non-Professional, Fine Art-Conceptual 2017 1st place: PDN TASTE 2017 Commercial-Category Amateur 3rd place: ND AWARDS 2017, Non-Professional, Nature-Other-Category 1st place: International Photography Awards (IPA) 2017 Food-Category Professional 3rd Place: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2017 Advertising-Category Non-Professional 1st place: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2017 Advertising Non-Professional Gold: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2017, Non-Professional, Advertising-Food Gold: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2017, Non-Professional, Portfolio-Food Silver: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2017, Non-Professional, Advertising-Food Bronze: Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2017, Non-Professional, Portfolio-Food Gold: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA), Non-Professional, 2017 Science-Other Gold: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA), Non-Professional, 2017 Advertising-Food Silver: Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2017, Professional, Nature-Category Silver: Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2017, Professional, Book Silver: Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2017, Professional, Monograph Bronze: Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2017, Professional, Fine Art Honorable Mention1: ND AWARDS 2017, Non-Professional, Fine Art-Conceptual Honorable Mention2: ND AWARDS 2017, Non-Professional, Fine Art-Conceptual Honorable Mention: International Photography Awards (IPA) 2017, Professional, One-Shot: Harmony 2016 1st Place: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2016, Non-Professional, Science Gold: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2016, Non-Professional, Science-Other Gold: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2016, Non-Professional, Advertising-Food Grand Prix: Onaeba YUMENOSAKI Project Honorable Mention: MONOVISIONS AWARDS 2019, Fine Art Category Honorable Mention: Monochrome Awards 2019, Abstract Category Honorable Mention: Monochrome Awards 2019, Fine Art Category Nominee: Fine Art photography Awards FAPA 2018/2019, Nature, Abstract Nominee: BLACK & WHITE Spider Awards 2019, Amateur, Still Life Honorable Mention: ND AWARDS 2019, Non-Professional, Nature-Macro Honorable Mention: Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2019, Non-Professional, Fine Art-Still Life Official Selection: London International creative competition 2018, Professional, Photography 150 And many others in Japan