{"id":2125,"date":"2022-05-12T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T08:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre.art-kumi.com\/?page_id=2125"},"modified":"2025-10-25T18:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:14:52","slug":"profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/art-kumi.com\/en\/profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"philosophy\">\n<h2>\uff0bAbout my work<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/art-kumi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/top_img_classical02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kumiko Wakabayashi is a Japanese photographer based in Osaka, specialized in classical printing methods such as van dyke brown print and collodion wet plate process. She received the Grand Prix Award from Ashiya Photo Association in 2014, and MI Gallery Award in 2019 and other various awards. Also, her unique work was selected for SALOND&#8217;AUTOMNE in 2018 and 2021. She has participated in many solo and group exhibitions and held workshops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSilver Wedding Anniversary\u201d 2018<\/strong><br \/>\nThis presents a couple celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, toasting each other but talking with a mask on; their true natures concealed. All the fruits and flowers are in a state of decay, except for a fresh lemon \u2013 it tastes bitter when you bite. This still life represents the evanescent or fragility of a couple married for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Old and new technique: \u201cClassical photograph\u201d She specializes both in van dyke brown print and wet collodion process; printing on Japanese &#8216;washi&#8217; paper, then applying pure \u2018gold leaf\u2019 \u2013 which is her original method. The work is always one-off and handmade, so the results are unpredictable, unique and original.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\uff0bAbout my work Kumiko Wakabayashi is a Japanese photographer based in Osaka, specialized in classical printing methods such as van dyke brown print and collodion wet plate process. She received the Grand Prix Award from Ashiya Photo Association in 2014, and MI Gallery Award in 2019 and other various awards. Also, her unique work was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-profile.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"http:\/\/art-kumi.ciao.jp\/wp\/?page_id=203","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2125","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-kumi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-kumi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-kumi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-kumi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-kumi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/art-kumi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"https:\/\/art-kumi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2125\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-kumi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}