From her debut to a never-before-published new project, a chronicle of Tomoko Sawada’s quarter-century-long artistic journey.
In 2000, Tomoko Sawada’s ID400—a series of 400 self-portraits, all different, taken at a public ID photo booth—marked her debut as an exciting new force in the world of photography. She won the Kimura Ihei Award and the ICP (International Center of Photography) Infinity Young Photographer Award in 2004, and she has since achieved international distinction through exhibitions around the world and publications including Omiai, School Days, Kawaii, Facial Signature, and a picture book about faces for children. This official catalogue to Sawada’s first-ever retrospective, To Be Bewitched by a Fox, at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum covers the major works of an artist who focuses on self-portraiture to consistently explore the links between appearance and internality.
In 2000, Tomoko Sawada’s ID400—a series of 400 self-portraits, all different, taken at a public ID photo booth—marked her debut as an exciting new force in the world of photography. She won the Kimura Ihei Award and the ICP (International Center of Photography) Infinity Young Photographer Award in 2004, and she has since achieved international distinction through exhibitions around the world and publications including Omiai, School Days, Kawaii, Facial Signature, and a picture book about faces for children. This official catalogue to Sawada’s first-ever retrospective, To Be Bewitched by a Fox, at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum covers the major works of an artist who focuses on self-portraiture to consistently explore the links between appearance and internality.