Sakiko Nomura is a Japanese photographer born in Shimonoseki in 1967. A graduate of Kyushu Sangyo University, she worked as a privileged assistant to the master of Japanese photography Nobuyoshi Araki for thirty years, learning at his side while developing her own practice. After her first exhibition ‘Uhr ohne Zeiger’ in 1993, Sakiko Nomura took part in several group and solo exhibitions in Europe, Tokyo and Asia. Her 2013 photobook Nude/A Room/Flowers won the Sagamihara New Professionals Award. In 2015, she represented Japan at the ‘Another Language’ exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles festival. In 2017, she won the New Photographer Award at the Higashikawa International Festival with her book Another Black Darkness. A prolific artist, she has already published around twenty monographs and is considered one of the most promising active Japanese photographers. Her work is included in the collection of the Tate Modern, London.
