Through a selection of pictures drawn from different series, this volume is a fine introduction to the work of a great photographer still little known outside his country. Celebrated in Japan, Issei Suda's work remains relatively unknown in Europe despite his immense talent and the prolific body of work he left behind. A collaborator of Shūji Terayama and the photographer of his theatre company, Suda found in the medium a way of documenting the ordinary while revealing the extraordinary. He is known for the technical perfection of his monochrome prints and for a unique, surrealist visual style — country festivals or crowded Tokyo streets alike.