{"id":630057,"date":"2026-10-14T05:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630057\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T05:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:32:13","slug":"so-many-different-mes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630057\/","title":{"rendered":"So Many Different Mes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/editor-1791886550-1e0a1bfe.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Japanese photographer and artist <a href=\"https:\/\/tomokosawada.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomoko Sawada<\/a> 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoweekender.com\/art_and_culture\/tomoko-sawada-photographer-interview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eugenie Shin of Tokyo Weekender calls<\/a> that 1998 project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/works\/94742\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ID 400<\/a>, \u201ca dizzying grid of strangers who are all actually the same woman\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/editor-1791886001-c3624924.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For subsequent projects, Sawada says she\u2019s continued to \u201cexamine the relationship between outer appearance and inner self through different concepts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/editor-1791886440-afb730c1.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoweekender.com\/art_and_culture\/tomoko-sawada-photographer-interview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tokyo weekender<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese photographer and artist Tomoko Sawada works primarily in self-portraiture. For her first project, she visited ID photo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-630057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}