About the Japanese photographer, Tamiko NISHIMURA (b. 1948, in Tokyo)
Tamiko NISHIMURA graduated from Tokyo Photography College (current Tokyo Visual Arts) in 1969. Her graduation work was a photography series of Jōkyō Gekijo (Situation Theatre), forefront of the underground theatre movement led by Jūrō Kara. After her graduation, she met Daido MORIYAMA, Kōji TAKI and Takuma NAKAHIRA, three highly influential members of the 'Provoke' movement. She assisted them in the darkroom from time to time up until 1972, while she continued her personal shooting on her travels. She also began to travel to Southeastern Asia and Europe in the 1980s. Tamiko NISHIMURA’s language of expression is poetic, spiritual and deeply personal. Looking back on her career, she describes it as a sequence of journeys, and she continued photographing with her nomadic lifestyle. Her photography, revealing what is beyond a journey, is a manifold portrait of life wherever she encounters.
Photo books by Tamiko NISHIMURA
'Shikishima' (1973, 2014), 'Vent calmoso' (2005), 'Existence 1968-69' (2011), 'Eternal Chase' (2012), 'Kittenish...' (2015), 'My Journey' (2018) and 'Voyage' (2019)