Nobuko Oyabu  Contributor, Inthefray.com

Nobuko Oyabu is a staff photojournalist with the Omaha World-Herald in Omaha, NE, USA. She first came to the United States from Japan in 1990 and earned a B.A. degree in photojournalism from Columbia College Chicago in 1995. She has received awards from the National Press Photographers Association, the Nebraska News Photographers Association, the Illinois Press Photographers Association and also was named the University of Missouri's College Photographer of the Year. Her work has been published widely and she serves as a lecturer on photojournalism.

Photography is her way to communicate with others. After her own experience of being raped, she is now thankful for the gift of understanding the pain, which allows her to communicate with rape and sexual abuse survivors on a level she had never imagined.

E-mail
  fotogno@aol.com

Index
  Survivors of Sexual Assault
  Photographed by Nobuko Oyabu | Assembled by Dustin Ross | Image | September 7, 2001
  A photographic essay

Last updated: September 7, 2001