If there is an enfant terriblé of Japan, it is none other than the celebrated photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki. Born in 1940 in Tokyo, Araki graduated in ‘63 with photography and filmmaking and worked at the Dentsu Advertising Agency. Quitting the agency in 1972, he bought a 6 x 7 Asahi Pentax with his savings and began a new journey that would nullify hitherto tested interventions to blaze his own trail of photographic metaphors across more than four hundred books.