MUSE Photography Awards Winner Interviews

At the MUSE Photography Awards, we celebrate creativity, diverse perspectives, and excellence in photography. Explore our winner interviews to discover inspiring stories, insights, and achievements from award-winning photographers around the world.

Interview with Masahiro Okumura - MUSE Photography Awards Winner

Masahiro Okumura, from syukoc.foodphoto, is a food photographer based in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, in central Japan. His photography journey began while working at a facility for the disabled tha...

Interview with Kazutoshi Kawakami - MUSE Photography Awards Winner

Kazutoshi Kawakami began his journey into photography influenced by a friend who is an accomplished photographer. He pursued the art of photography entirely through self-study, immersing himself in ex...

Interview with Mateusz Brejnak - MUSE Photography Awards Winner

Mateusz Brejnak has been captivated by the world through his lens since 2021, with an earlier chapter in his photographic journey from 2012 to 2014. His passion lies in the heartbeat of city life and ...

Interview with Tim Tsao - MUSE Photography Awards Winner
Japan

During his time in the US, Tim Tsao embarked on a transformative journey that began with a Thanksgiving purchase of his first camera, a Nikon D5300. Since then, his passion for photography has flouris...

Interview with Eetane Yong - MUSE Photography Awards Winner
Australia

Eetane Yong, based in Melbourne, Australia, embarked on a photography journey 15 years ago, with a primary passion for children's portraiture. Since her early years, she has been attracted to beauty t...

Interview with Danielle Giguère - MUSE Photography Awards Winner

Danielle Giguère, a photographer hailing from Donnacona, a small town near Québec, Canada, identifies as a full-time artist. The allure of photography captured her at a tender age, and it wasn't unt...

Interview with Mariko Okubo - MUSE Photography Awards Winner
Japan

Mariko Okubo is a curious Tokyo-based Portrait/Street photographer that is inspired by her love for movies, books and the ordinary but mostly her love for her wonderful daughters....

Interview with Alessandro Carboni - MUSE Photography Awards Winner

An aspiring landscape and nature photographer, Alessandro Carboni escapes urbanized areas in search for untouched and uncontaminated places to photograph wondrous sceneries....

Interview with Rosa Gómez - MUSE Photography Awards Winner
Spain

Rosa Gomez allows her motto of ‘a gaze with soul’ to guide her photography as it is an intrinsic part of herself that she has been invested in since her early childhood....

Interview with RU Fang Dong - MUSE Photography Awards Winner
Taiwan

Ru Fang Dong is an individual that is engaged in visual design work work that cemented her passion in creating wondrous photography!...

Interview with Didi Hsu - MUSE Photography Awards Winner
Taiwan

Didi Hsu has always had a close relationship with photography and is constantly in a learning state to sharpen her skills as a photographer in hopes to produce more masterpieces....

Interview with Vinci Weng - MUSE Photography Awards Winner
Taiwan

A talented artist and a professor of digital fine art as well as a gallery artist for YellowKorner Art Photography in Paris, Vinci Weng has over 35 years’ worth of experience and predominantly works...

Interview with Ines Leong - MUSE Photography Awards Winner
United States

Ines Leong is an aspiring architectural photographer based in New York City and is inspired when she gets to know the project process and the effort involved helps shapes her vision of the image inclu...

Interview with Aitor del Arco - MUSE Photography Awards Winner

Aitor del Arco is a visual artist from Calphe and it was during film class where he was captivated by photography which led him to purchase his first second-hand professional camera....

Interview with Masaaki Toyoyoshi - MUSE Photography Awards Winner

Due to the progression of glaucoma, Masaaki Toyoyoshi realized that this will be how he perceives the world and is accepting of the situation. He is currently working on a series called ‘MONOCLE VIS...