Publisher/青幻舎

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Facial Signature is a collection of works by Tomoko Sawada (1977-), a Japanese female artist/photographer. Her debut work, ID400, released in 1999, became a hot topic and won the New Cosmos of Photography Special Award in 2000. When her collection was published in 2004, she won the 29th Kimura Ihei Photography Award in the same year, and the Twentieth Annual ICP Infinity Award for Young Photographer at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her talent began to attract international attention, and she expanded her stage of activity by exhibiting her work all over the world. ID400 is a self-portrait work using "passport photos," in which she develops various identities by changing her hairstyle, makeup, and fashion. It was a work that questions the perception of others (the judgment of appearance) and explores the nature of her identity, which is at the mercy of her appearance. This work introduces portraits of her disguised as 300 Asian selves, from her Japanese self across borders. We can see the fluctuation of identity beyond nationality and race. Obi and text by Hitoto Yo.