Keiko Nomura is a Japanese photographer. She was born in 1970 in Kobe, in Hyogo Prefecture. She graduated from the Visual Arts College Osaka and studied photography in Los Angeles and Santa Fe. She lives and works in Okinawa.
Her maternal grandparents came from Okinawa. Her first photobook, Deep South (1999), explored Okinawa. It drew attention for its colors and emotion. In 1999 she received the Newcomer's Award of the Photographic Society of Japan. Women and water are motifs in her work. She has published eight photobooks and shown her work in more than forty exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and the Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum.
Her book Bloody Moon was published by Tosei-sha in 2006. It has 80 pages. She made it after a long period of travel, from Okinawa to Taiwan and India, and back to Tokyo. The book brings together portraits, landscapes and symbolic scenes. She shot it entirely on film.
