This is Tomoko Sawada. She's a Japanese artist who likes to dress up in different Japanese female roles and take pictures of herself. Pretty awesome stuff—it's super creative, yet it evokes the spirit of the PuriKura culture—the majority of young Japanese girls who document every single moment in their lives with sticker pictures. Here's how she explains her work:
I was bound by an inferiority complex. When I started to take pictures, I loved my image taken in photos, which looked attractive and cute. I could make myself look like a model or an actress in pictures. As I looked at my pictures again and again, the gap between my real image and my image in a picture widened. In other words, my appearance could be changed easily, but my personality did not change.
Tomoko Sawada via PingMag
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