Reflex: Contemporary Japanese Self-Portraiture

Mark Sanders was a founding member and acting Arts Editor for the popular style and arts magazine Dazed & Confused throughout the 1990s graduating to the Senior Editor of the Dazed Publishing Groups flagship title Another Magazine from 2000 until 2006. In the late 1990s he was active in other areas of publishing in Europe and the United States. Amongst other roles, he edited a number of books on art and fashion as the Commissioning Editor for Contemporary Culture for Phaidon Press. In 2001 he formed the arts commissioning agency RS&A Ltd. launching internationally renowned arts project The Art of Chess in 2003, followed by specially commissioned projects by a number of the world’s leading contemporary artists including Yayoi Kusama, Damien Hirst, Barbara Kruger and Maurizio Cattelan. Mark is also a recognised curator and historian in reportage photography and has built museum quality collections on the Cuban Revolution, Apartheid South Africa and the Student Protest Movements of the 1960s – exhibiting in leading institutions including the International Centre of Photography, New York and the Garage Centre of Contemporary Culture, Moscow. Kyoichi Tsuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1956. From 1976 to 1986, he was a freelance editor for the influential men’s fashion and lifestyle magazines Popeye and Brutus, where he wrote on contemporary art, design, urban living, and related topics. From 1989 to 1992, he published Art Random (Kyoto Shoin), a 102-volume series covering 1980s trends in global contemporary art. He continues to write and edit works on contemporary art, architecture, photography, design, and more. In 1993, he released the photobook Tokyo Style (Kyoto Shoin), which depicts the living spaces of Tokyoites in a raw, unfiltered context; in 1997, he received the Kimura Ihei Award for his photobook Roadside Japan (Aspect, 1997), which marked the start of a still-ongoing project to document roadside subjects both in Japan and abroad.