Tokyo, 1980

George Nobechi is a Tokyo-born, Japanese/Canadian photographer. He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in History/International Relations. His bicultural upbringing has influenced his gaze, that simultaneously makes him an insider and outsider to both Western and Eastern cultures. His contemplative work is often described as depicting a warm feeling of humanity.

Nobechi sharpened his photographic training attending a Work Study for the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, learning from artists such as Amy Toensing, Eddie Soloway, Brett L. Erickson and Arno Rafael Minkkinen. Nobechi also studied overseas with Sam Abell, Newsha Tavakolian, Keith Carter, Greg Gorman and Kate Breakey.

His work has been exhibited around the United States, Japan and Mexico. Selected solo exhibitions include "Moments of Serenity" at the Walls of the World Gallery in Penne, Italy, "Unmoored" at the Jackson Dinsdale Art Center at Hastings College, as well as the Workspace Gallery in Lincoln, both of them in Nebraska. Group exhibition highlights include "Exposure" at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, PDN’s "The Curator" at the Milk Gallery in New York City, the 50th Anniversary Exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, and at the Tokyo Institute of Photography.

Collections · His multi-award-winning series "Here. Still. (Unmoored)" is in the collections of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography and the Australian Museum for Contemporary Photography.

Awards · Critical Mass Top 50 award in 2017, 2nd Prizes in the Paris Photo Prize of 2017 for Fine Art and Monograph categories, first and third prizes in the Tokyo International Foto Awards, Best Landscape Series in PDN "The Curator" in 2017, as well as 3rd Prize in the International Photography Awards in 2018 for Fine Art Landscape Series.

Publications · Nobechi’s work has appeared internationally in publications such as PDN, Asahi Camera, Fraction, RFotofolio and Edge of Humanity.