ABOUT

2021-12-07

​Kanta Nomura / 野村 幹太

京都府南丹市生まれ。東京・高円寺在住。写真家。同志社大学法学部卒業。

商社、スタジオ勤務ののちノーベル賞作家ガルシア・マルケスの物語の舞台になった土地や生誕の地、コロンビア・アラカタカを拠点に南米北部を放浪。帰国後、同志社小劇場在籍時に知った京都大学吉田寮の記録を始める。
2020年、写真集「吉田寮学生寄宿舎史」が完成。

写真集はParis-Photo Aperture photobook AwardやLes Rencontres d’Arlesなど海外のbook awardsで高い評価を得ている。

Kanta Nomura

Born in Nantan City, Kyoto. Lives and works in Koenji, Tokyo. Photographer. Graduated from Doshisha University, Faculty of Law.
He got to know Yoshida Dormitory when he attended a play at the Kyoto University Yoshida Dormitory cafeteria while a student at Doshisha Little Theatre.

After working for a trading company, he wandered around northern South America, using Aracataca, Colombia, as a base, where the Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born and where his stories were set. After returning to Japan, he began documenting the Yoshida dormitory around 2008.
In 2020, he completed a photo book entitled “The Yoshida Dormitory Students’ History.

The book has been highly acclaimed in book awards abroad, including the Paris-Photo Aperture photobook award and Les Rencontres d’Arles.

AWARDS/受賞

“PHOTOMETRIA ” 2024 , Finalist

Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award 2023 ,Finalist

KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2022,2nd Prize /2023 ,Finalist

ANDY ROCCHELLI GRANT 2021 ,Grand Prix

Encontros da Imagem 2021 ,2nd prize winner 2023 ,Finalist

Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards – the First PhotoBook Category 2021 ,Finalist

photobook week Aarhus 2021 ,Finalist

Les Rencontres d’Arles – Historical book award 2020 ,Finalist

JUNA21 , NIKON SALON 2015

PUBLICATIONS/掲載

FARE MAGAGINE (UK) , TRANSIT (Japna), NEUTRAL COLOR (Japan), NOT YET-ALREADY (Japan)

BRUTUS (Japan) , Gakken (Japan) , Yahoo ( Japan )

Solo Exhibition/個展

“Yoshida Dormitory Students’ History”Publication Commemorative Exhibition RPS, Tokyo Kyoto/2023

“The Yoshida Dormitory Students’ History and An old darkroom”SI Fest – Savignano Immagini Festival,Italy/2022

“Yoshida Dormitory Old Darkroom” RPS, Kyoto.Tokyo,Japan/2022


“Yoshida Dormitory has come Ogikubo! “NEUTRAL COLOR,Tokyo,Japan/2021

“Yoshida Dormitory Students’ History” RPS, Tokyo/2019

“Yoshida Dormitory”Yoshida Dormitory (KYOTOGRAPHIE) ,Kyoto /2017

“Buenos Dias!” TOTEMPOLE PHOTO GARRELLY , Tokyo/2016

JUNA21 NIKON SALON,Tokyo Osaka /2015

2010EL DORADO Greenbazaar,Tokyo/2010

FUJI PHOTO SALON,Osaka/2008


Selected exhibition/展示

Photometria International Photography Festival ,Athens,Greece/2024

The 2nd Hong Kong Photobook Festival,Hong Kong/2023

Center For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia/2023

Format Festival, Derby, England/2023

Internationale Photoszene Köln – Festival, Cologne, Germany/2023

Istituto Italiano di Fotografia, Milano, Italy/2023

Jakarta International Photofestival (JIPFest), Jakarta, Indonesia/2023

Reminders Project & Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo, Japan/2023

RAW Fototriennale, Worpswede, Germany,/2022

Offsettprojects, New Delhi, India/2022.2023

Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops, Siem Reap, Cambodia/2022.2023

The PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne, Germany/2022

Lumenvisum, Hong Kong/2022.2023

Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF), Singapore/2022.2023

Wiesbadener Fototage, Wiesbaden, Germany/2022

ZOETROPE, Athens, Greece/2022.2023.2024

Organ Vida, Zagreb, Croatia/2022.2023

Fotofestiwal, Łódź, Poland/2022.2023

PHOTO2022, Melbourne, Australia/2022

Grisart, Barcelona, Spain/2022.2023

Officine Fotografiche, Rome, Italy/2022.2023

PhotoIreland, Dublin, Ireland/2022.2023

Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark/2021.2023

NOKS Art Space Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey/2021.2023

space for visual culture and artistic thinking, Ankara, Turkey/2021.2023

Photobook Market, Encontros da Imagem, Braga ,Portugal /2021

Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards 2021, Grand Palais, Paris France /2021

“Yohida Dormitory” PHOTO BANGKOK , Bangkok , Thailand /2018