About

PHOTOGRAPHER :: ENTREPRENEUR :: MOMMY :: GODDESS

Photography came as a great risk personally and professionally. Blessed by my parents extraordinary gifts (Mom is a clothing designer and Dad has been a professional photographer for over 40 years), after almost twenty years of stints in the cosmetic and luxury brand retail and corporate world, my creative heart finally chose to come home. In 2008 I quit my ‘stable’ corporate job and joined my Father in his photography studio. As a result of my dramatic leap off the corporate bandwagon, I dyed my hair red and blonde, then got my nose pierced. In the first year working beside my Father, I created ‘Nomura Photography Group’, a series of workshops and classes for the novice to the aspiring pro photographer. My Dad loves to teach and this gave him the structure and opportunity to share his love for photography with others who share the same drive and longing to be technically and artistically self-expresed. Hundreds of students, most of whom we now call our friends, now know how to use their camera via ‘manual’ mode and can compose striking and evocative images. The following four years included desperate attempts to find my niche in the photography market; I photographed EVERYTHING I could lay my eyes on—landscape, portraits, weddings, street, maternity, newborn, architecture, engagement… You name it, I shot it. Then in 2012, I took a gigantic step forward in to briging to life a deeply personal photography project – ‘BREAKDOWN’. Debuting at the HATAKEYAMA Gallery in the downtown Los Angeles Artist’s District in the summer of 2012, I discovered a renewed sense of confidence, power and purpose from my gallery show. I found that my heart, my passion and focus led me to exactly where I want to be—photographing women—beautiful, raw, uninhibited and REAL… Women.

I chose to rewrite my past. Instead of regretting the hours spent standing and performing hundred of makeovers, instead of resenting a client for keeping me over time while trying on every single outfit in the boutique, instead of complaining about rewriting training after training for executives to understand the particulars of marketing the newest beauty treatment… I took all those years of listening and being with women – and am transforming the way women view themselves by way of my photography.

Ultimately, what I got from listening to women for 20 years working in the cosmetic and beauty industries, was that they were living in a world of never truly seeing themselves as what OTHERS PERCEIVED them as—which is truly beautiful.

As an artist, my goal is to unleash and reveal who women are—as perceived by others. I’m committed that they have an experience of themselves so profound and so breathtaking, that it knocks them off of their own feet. For so many women it becomes to accept and acknowledge a compliment given to them with out making up excuses or reasons (i.e. “You look gorgeous today”, her response, “Oh thanks, but it’s probably because I actually slept last night.”) Women are very skilled at invalidating compliments. I aim to reverse this phenomenon. If I can create something that has a woman look at herself and genuinely exclaim, “Wow, I look absolutely beautiful!”, then I have fulfilled my purpose.