I WILL TELL YOU A TALE OF THE BOTTOMLESS BLUE
Keiko Nomura
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'I Will Tell you a Tale of the Bottomless Blue' is the 3rd and final book of Keiko Nomura's trilogy. After 'Drop of Light to Rushing Water' and 'Okinawa', the Japanese photographer continues to delve into the world of water and women, in her overarching exploration of life’s infinite cycle, beyond time and space.

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Book starts shipping in late June 2025

龍宮 - Ryugu

いま私がいる沖縄の渚に佇むと、自分の中の自然を感じる。
この島のどこにいても目にする水平線。その向こうにあるという天国"ニライカナイ"を想う。沖縄の先人たちがあの世を想うとき、そこは闇ではなく、深く青い光りの世界であった。そしてイノー(サンゴ礁に囲まれた浅い海)はあの世とこの間にある世界なのだ。
満ちては引く　潮のざわめき　生と死の彼方　ニライカナイへ

When Okinawa's ancestors thought of the afterlife, it was not a world of darkness, but a deep blue light. Beyond the ino-o (the shallow sea surrounded by coral reefs), they envisioned a bright place with an hollow sky. A world of blue.
Standing here on the shore of Okinawa, where I live, I feel the nature within me. And, as I look out at the horizon every day, I think of "Nirai Kanai," the heaven that is said to exist beyond it and I am not afraid of going there. 
I imagine what lies beyond, a world of mermaids and dragons.
I see this dream in my photographs as well.

Special thanks to the spirits of nature in Okinawa and to my models Mimi Yamasaki, Kozue, Misa, and to my friends.
Keiko Nomura

Keiko Nomura (1970, Kobe, Japan) graduated from Visual Arts College Osaka and studied photography in Los Angeles. She has  published several books, mostly with Japanese publishers. Nomura received the Newcomer’s Award from the Photographic Society of Japan in 1999 and New Photographer Prize at the 16th Higashikawa International Photography Festival in 2000 and has been exhibiting regularly in Japan in the last years.

龍宮 - Ryugu
I will tell you a tale of the bottomless blue
Softcover with flaps, 21x29cm, 32 pages
400 copies
Pierre von Kleist editions 2025