Taizo Nomura

002 PH • Singapore, Republic of Singapore

AK: Please introduce yourself: What is your name, where are you from, what do you do?

TN: My name is Taizo Nomura, born in 1968 and raised in Japan. I am an ordinary Japanese man who has been working in Singapore for two years, doing sales man seriously. So I always have my compact camera in my business bag and shoot whenever beauty strikes me. 

AK: What is your relationship with photography? How did you get into it and what keeps you interested or motivated?

TN: After high school graduation in Japan, I went to US to study English and find what I want to do. Being in a new place gave me a new view to my eyes and it lead me to the filed of photography.

I first studied it in Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska, then I transferred to Rochester Institute of Technology major in Fine Art Photography and graduated in 1994.

In 1995, I went back to Japan and started to work. and photography gradually faded out of me. In 2015, I had an opportunity to work in Singapore. I left my family and moved to Singapore. Being in a new place gave me a new view to my eyes again and made me buy my first digital camera in Dec 2016.

Ordinary places/things are beautiful. Even though boring places and things you see everyday, there is a day or time it makes them extraordinary. Believe or not, my heartbeat gets faster through the lens. Is it just a magic of light or something in our mind?

AK: What are you currently working on, and—if there is—what is your next project or journey?

TN: What I am doing now will probably be my lifetime work. I will try photograph as long as I can.

AK: Thank you, Taizo!

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Photography: Taizo Nomura (2018)
Location: Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Links: Instagram