George Nobechi is a Tokyo-born, Canadian/Japanese photographer currently working in digital fine art photography.
He graduated from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver with a BA (Honors) in History/ International Relations in 2002.
When he was 19 his father suddenly passed away and Nobechi turned to a business career in Tokyo and New York to support himself and his family. In 2008 he embarked on a solo journey around the world in order to find peace with the death of his father. It was at this time that his interest in photography began.
In 2015, Nobechi left his career to study under former National Geographic photographer Sam Abell.
Nobechi’s work has recently been shown in magazines such as PDN, where he won the best landscape project for “The Curator” Awards in 2017 and Fraction Media, selected for the Critical Mass Top 200 for both 2016 and 2017, two silver awards at the 2017 Paris Photo Prize (Landscape Project and a gold award at the Tokyo Int'l Foto Awards.