Figures in a Landscape: The Art of Kazuyoshi Nomachi (Rediscover)

Arakus, Libya
Japanese photographer Kazuyoshi Nomachi shares with his contemporaries Sebastião
Salgado and and Steve McCurry an ability to turn photojournalism - the art of capturing the
immediate - into something epic and monumental, as seemingly timeless as myth. Nomachi
has been photographing since the early 1970s, and has worked extensively in the remotest
regions of the Sahara desert, the Himalayas, the Andes and the Arabian Peninsula, and
although his twelve photographic anthologies have been published around the world, outside
of Japan his work has only rarely been publicly exhibited, and unlike the American McCurry or
the Brazilian Salgado, no award-winning international documentary or single image that has
burned itself into public consciousness has touched his career. Slowly however, the west is
beginning to celebrate this singular photographic voice.

In 2013 and 2014 a comprehensive retrospective was staged in Rome. Titled “Kazuyoshi
Nomachi: Le Vie del Sacro (The Ways of t...