Entangled
Maude ARSENAULT
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Born in Hyogo in Japan, Nomura graduated from Visual Arts College Osaka and studied photography in Los Angeles and Santa Fe. Her first photo book Deep South (1999) captures her roots of Okinawa and attracted much attention for its unique colors and rich emotionality. Since then, women and water have been the motifs in her overarching theme of ‘life’. Her work explores life’s infinite cycle beyond time and space and her pieces have been published in 8 photo books and shown in over 40 exhibitions. She received the Newcomer’s Award from the Photographic Society of Japan in 1999 and New Photographer Prize at the 16th Higashikawa International Photography Festival in 2000. Hayashi Tadahiko Photograhy Prize 2018. The collection has kept in Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum and some more. She currently lives and works in Okinawa
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In “Otari – Pristine Peaks”, Keiko Nomura photographed life in accordance with the seasonal tune of nature.
Otari, one of many small villages somewhere in the peaks of Japan’s Northern Alps. It is winter, and Nomura tells us of nature’s harsher sides. Hunters traverse the white mountains, shoot and skin boars, disembowel dears and birds. Once spring comes along, greeted by the villagers with traditional festivities, Nomura changes the theme from death to (re)birth: we find the woman protagonist of the book pregnant, kid goats and butterflies make an appearance, and the villagers.
“Why do I live here? Because the man I love and decided to raise a family with was a villager from here. We can work and bring up our children here, live as a family and see each other’s faces everyday. It is wonderful to grow the food that we eat. This is how I wanted to live.”
All texts in the book are in English (Japanese translations provided via leaflet).
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