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Ai Mizobuchi

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2017Excellence Award

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I sought out women who looked cute on Instagram. When I met them in real life, they were different from the characters they depict on Instagram. That’s natural, of course, for Instagram.
These women use real society and the Internet world for different purposes and are successful in both. I stripped away the social fabrications (cosmetics and fashion) the women use to compartmentalize real and online worlds and photographed their in-between point, which is neither real nor virtual.

Entries form: Book with twenty 254 × 305mm prints on inkjet prints

Selecting judge: Tomoko Sawada

More and more works today touch on social media. But this work impressed me because instead of using social media itself, it deftly subverts social media’s concealed faces and anonymity.

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PROFILE

Ai Mizobuchi

1989: Born in Kyoto
2014: Attended the Faculty of Modern Sociology, Kyoto Women’s University
2014: Studied under Tetsuya Sakida
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2017Excellence Award

Ai Mizobuchi

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