Atsushi Nomura｜Biography
Born in Tokyo in 1963. In his childhood, Photographer Atsushi Nomura was surrounded by visual information overflowing from TV, and nurtured especially by “light and colors”. His grandfather was a Makieshi, a gold lacquer artist who inherits the technique of the Japanese traditional crafts in Kanazawa, a precious cultural city of crafts and fork arts in Japan. He might inherit the gene of the artistic talent from his grandfather. The world of creation was the sea Atsushi Nomura should swim in. Becoming a copywriter, he was a seeker of lingering and sympathetic words, and when he got a second -hand camera Leica, it opened another door. Impressed by the photographs of Japanese photographers Ihei Kimura and Daido Moriyama, he took a large number of snapshots. In 2010, after moving to Shodoshima, an island in Setouchi area which is famous for the beautiful scenery with a lot of islands, he learned for three years at the photography school of Naoki Ishikawa. He exhibited his works in two group exhibitions in Tokyo, and group exhibitions of photography school (“Double Home”2017, “firefly”2018, “Hello my casts”2019). He also published three photobooks(“Born in the industrial zone”2019, “During in my stay”2020, ‟Silent River”2021). He wants to record the fragments of the scene that flies away and quickly disappears as a proof that he is alive. He cuts out a scene in ordinary life, being conscious of light and shadow. His desire is to express in his photographs the world of a famous song of Bossa Nova “ Waters of March” recorded in New York in 1973.