Hiromix: Tokyo

Edited by Patrick Remy. Göttingen 1998. 17,1 x 23,5 cm. 150 pp. toroughly col. ills. Hardcover. In engl. & jap. language. ISBN 978-3882435757

was: 28,– now: € 10,–

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Hiromix is a photographer who was born in Tokyo in 1976. After leaving school in 1995, she was awarded the Nobuyoshi Araki Prize and the New Cosmos of Photography Prize, sponsored by Canon, with her book entitled School Days containing a series of colour prints captured with an automatic compact camera.

The book covers a cult trend in Tokyo — the trading of photographic self-portraits. It is a new way of communicating among young Japanese women. Their nickname is kubi kara camera zoku (the crowd with a camera around their neck). Their spokeswoman is Hiromix, the spiritual daughter of Nobuyoshi Araki, who knows that her youth will not last forever; she therefore pins it down through her camera lens. Her world is made of self-portraits, friends, fashion and visions of Tokyo. It's a world of colours and innocence. It's her world of today.