Kazuyoshi Nomachi / Studio Equis
Pilgrimages
Ever since the age of 25, when Kazuyoshi Nomachi first worked as a freelance photojournalist in the Sahara Desert, religious pilgrimages have been the focus of his career. After two years in the Sahara, he traveled the Nile from the source to the delta, and onwards through Ethiopia. For several years he was fascinated by Africa, before turning towards Asia in the late 1980s. But the greatest pilgrimage of all, the hajj in Mecca and Medina (Saudi Arabia), had eluded him; until 1994. Nomachi converted to Islam so that he could photograph the hajj, and spent the next five years documenting this most sacred of Islamic rituals. Nomachi’s spiritual and profoundly human work shows the deep respect he has for religious faith of all kinds. The present exhibition is the first Nomachi retrospective to be shown in Europe and is a unique opportunity to discover the work of this Japanese master of color.
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