KEIKO NOMURA: Drop of Light to Rushing Water

手に掬えばこぼれ落ちていく光

鼓動するこの赤い水はいつか海へ、そして天へと

それは、刹那という永遠の光景

Light escaping from my hands as I try to scoop it

Stormy red water will circulate around the sea and sky someday

An eternal scene lies within a moment.

Keiko Nomura (1970, Kobe, Japan) graduated from Visual Arts College Osaka and studied photography in Los Angeles. She has already published 6 books, mostly with Japanese publishers. Nomura 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 and has been exhibiting regularly in Japan in the last years.

In her work, women and water have been the motifs in her overarching theme of life’s infinite cycle beyond time and space. 

Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Contemporary Japanese Photography, vol.13' held at TOP Museum Tokyo (Tokyo Photography Art Museum) in November 2016.