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So Many Different Mes

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Japanese photographer and artist Tomoko Sawada works primarily in self-portraiture. For her first project, she visited ID photo booths to take hundreds of photos of herself, dressed, posed, and presented differently. Eugenie Shin of Tokyo Weekender calls that 1998 project, ID 400 , “a dizzying grid of strangers who are all actually the same woman”. For subsequent projects, Sawada says she’s continued to “examine the relationship between outer appearance and inner self through different concepts”

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