“My Journey III” is the third and final chapter in Tamiko Nishimura’s “My Journey” series.

Since her early days as a photography student capturing the works of the Jokyo Gekijo theater group, Nishimura has continued to see, confront and photograph people, scenes and objects in the world with her own emphatic, fascinating style. In “My Journey III”, Nishimura presents a series of black-and-white photographs taking during her journeys in and out of Japan between 1993 and 2022. In 2011, for example, one such journey took her to Prague, as she hunts the ghost of Josef Koudelka, one of her photographer idols.

Throughout the book, Nishimura weaves a deep and multilayered web of emotions, stories and impressions that lie decades and thousands of kilometers apart, driven by her relentless interest and compassion.

《あれから》是 西村多美子《旅人》系列的第三章，亦是最終章。

自從她早年作為東京視覺藝術專門學校的攝影學生，拍攝東京劇場劇團的作品以來，西村一直以她獨有個人的迷人風格，去觀察、面對和拍攝世界上的人、場景和物體。 在《あれから》中，西村展示了一系列黑白照片，這些照片是她在 1993 年至2022 年間進出日本的旅程中拍攝的。於2011 年，她為了追尋她的攝影師偶像之一 Josef Koudelka 的足跡，前往布拉格旅行，並拍攝一系列黑白照片向他致敬。

在整本書中，西村以她無窮的攝影興趣和同理心的驅使下，編織出深刻而富層次的情感和故事，儘管它們可能相距數十年及數千公里。

About the artist

Born in 1948 in Tokyo, Nishimura graduated from Tokyo Photography College (current Tokyo Visual Arts) in 1969. Her graduation work was a photography series of Jōkyō Gekijo (Situation Theatre), forefront of the underground theatre movement led by Jūrō Kara. After her graduation, she met Daido Moriyama, Kōji Taki and Takuma Nakahira, three highly influential members of the Provoke movement. She assisted them in the darkroom from time to time up until 1972, while she continued her personal shooting on her travels. Later in 1973, Nishimura made her debut through the first publication “Shikishima” published by Tokyo Photography College, showcasing her photographs taken from 1969 to 1972 on her journeys around Japan including Hokkaidō, Tōhoku, Hokuriku, Kantō, Kansai and Chūgoku regions. She also began to travel to Southeastern Asia and Europe in the 1980s. Nishimura’s language of expression is poetic, spiritual and deeply personal. Looking back on her career, Nishimura describes it as a sequence of journeys, and she continued photographing with her nomadic lifestyle. Her photography, revealing what is beyond a journey, is a manifold portrait of life wherever she encounters.

西村多美子，1948年出生於東京，1969年畢業於東京寫真專門學校（現為東京視覺藝術學院）。畢業後，她認識了三位《PROVOKE 挑釁》成員：森山大道、多木浩二和中平卓馬。直到 1972 年，她不時在黑房裡協助他們，同時她仍在旅途中繼續進行個人拍攝。1973年後期，西村透過東京攝影專門學校出版了第一本攝影集《敷島》，展示了她從1969年至1972年在日本各地拍攝的照片，包括北海道、東北、北陸、關東、關西和中國地區。 1980年代，她也開始前往東南亞和歐洲拍攝。西村的表達語言充滿詩意、精神和深刻的個人色彩。回顧她的職業生涯，西村將其描述為一系列旅程，並會繼續以游牧生活方式拍攝。