Through the death of her immediate family and two earthquakes, the photographer has been staring "a place where the departed souls would some day returned"As someone living in the present, I feel compelled as if by instinct to want to remember and record in my photographs as traces of light the disappearing present and the light I thought I detected there.
Keiko Nomura
The image Nomura captures, thought by no means depressing, are tinged with anair of melancholy, and I for one can relate to them.
Daido Moriyama