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Nobuo Onishi

おおにし　のぶお

Onishi Nobuo

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1968-06-12 （Tokyo, Japan）
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Tokyo, Japan → Ikeda, Ibi District, Gifu, Japan

経歴

職業
photographer, film director, author, educator
活動期間
1992年〜
所属
Graduate School of Information Science and Arts (IAMAS) - faculty, Borderless Art Museum NO-MA (director)

学歴

Tokyo Sogo Photographic School
国: Japan

受賞歴

EARTH VISION — Best Work (16th)
2007
対象作品: The Village That Became Water
主催: EARTH VISION International Environmental Film Festival
結果: winner
Japan Picture Book Award (8th)
対象作品: Grandma Became a Tree
主催: Japan Picture Book Award Committee
結果: winner
Sankei Children's Publishing Culture Prize (58th) — Grand Prize
対象作品: Buta Niku
主催: Sankei Shimbun
結果: grand prize
Shogakukan Children's Publishing Prize (59th)
対象作品: Buta Niku
主催: Shogakukan
結果: winner
Sankei Children's Publishing Culture Prize (72nd) — Grand Prize
2025
対象作品: Hikiishi and 24 Tofu Shops
主催: Sankei Shimbun
結果: grand prize
Agricultural Journalist Award (36th)
2021
対象作品: Hohare Pass — One Hundred Years of Tokuyama Village Sunk by a Dam
主催: Agricultural Journalists Association
結果: winner
Gifu Prefecture Arts and Culture Award
2019
主催: Gifu Prefectural Government
結果: recipient
Japan Photographic Society Award — Cultural Promotion Prize
2025
主催: Japan Photographic Society (Public Interest Foundation)
結果: recipient

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Village That Became Water

2007年 Documentary (film) / Photobook

A documentary following residents who remained in Tokuyama Village as it was flooded by a dam. Also published as a photo book documenting the village's memory.

dams and submerged villagesmemory and lossmarginal communities
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] The Village That Became Water / 大西 暢夫 (2007)

Grandma Became a Tree

2002年 photo picture book

A picture book told in photographs, portraying nature, human life and generational continuity with a gentle viewpoint.

naturegenerational continuityeveryday life documentation

Buta Niku

2010年 children's book / photo picture book

A photo-based picture book for children with themes of farming and food.

agriculturefood educationlocal culture

Hikiishi and 24 Tofu Shops

2024年 children's book

A children's book using photographs to convey the lives of tofu makers and craftsmen, introducing local skills and culture.

craftspeoplelocal industryeveryday skills

Hohare Pass — One Hundred Years of Tokuyama Village Sunk by a Dam

2020年 documentary photo book / reportage

A photographic and written account of Tokuyama Village's century-long history, following the lives of people in a village submerged by a dam.

local historydam issueslife histories

全著作

  • Grandma Became a Tree
  • Each and Every Person — Psychiatric Ward I Photographed
  • The Night of the Tsunami — Memories of 3.11
  • With the Honeybees — Beekeeper Koji Kakuta
  • Becoming Soil Here
  • From Silkworms to Thread and Cotton
  • With Shiitake — Mushroom Farmer Kiyoharu Nakamoto
  • Buta Niku
  • The Village That Became Water — The Story of Elders Who Lived in a Village Sunk by a Dam
  • Living in Tokuyama Village — Seasonal Memories
  • Hohare Pass — One Hundred Years of Tokuyama Village Sunk by a Dam
  • The Flame Connects
  • Gentle Shapes

翻案

  • The Village That Became Water (film)
  • Traces of Family: Memories of 3.11 (film)
  • The Flame Connects (film)

作風・主題

文体
documentary-oriented photographic expressionempathetic, human-centered perspectivequiet, observational depiction
頻出モチーフ
submerged villages and damslife at the marginscraftspeople and traditional industriesdocumenting psychiatric closed wardsportraits of outsider artists (art brut)

評価・遺産

Over decades he has produced documentary photography and films addressing marginal communities and social issues across Japan, while also earning recognition for children's photo picture books. He has contributed to supporting artists with disabilities and regional cultural preservation.

記念館・博物館

  • Borderless Art Museum NO-MA Omihachiman, Shiga, Japan

関連学会

  • Japan Photographic Society

引用

  • I believe that the record of having watched this place for a long time is what matters most.
    出典: NHK Heart-Net (interview) (2018年)

豆知識

  • He commuted to Tokuyama Village from Tokyo by off-road bike, a roughly 10-hour (one-way) journey.
  • In 2023 he became director of the Borderless Art Museum NO-MA.
  • Active both as a photographer and as a documentary film director.