Hell on Wheels - Freak Japanese Motorcycles by Kyoichi Tsuzuki

This fascinating, voyeuristic look at modern life comes in a chunky, pocket-sized format-the perfect coffee table book for people with really small apartments. His captions to the hundreds of photographs capture the spirit and ingenuity required to live in such small quarters. Tsuzuki introduces each tiny crash pad with a brief text about who lives there, from artists and students to professionals and couples with children. Hundreds of photographs reveal the real Tokyo style: microapartments, mini and modular everything, rooms filled to the rafters with electronics, piles of books and clothes, clans of remote controls, collections of sundry objects all crammed into a space where every inch counts. Photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki rode his scooter all over Tokyo snapping shots of how urban Japanese really live. Tokyo: A Certain Style, the mini-sized decor book with a difference, shows how, for those living in one of the worlds most expensive and densely packed metropolises, closet-sized apartments stacked to the ceiling with gadgetry and CDs are the norm. She is like a magpie collecting pretty, shiny things, as long as they have an Anna Sui logo.Ah, think of the serene gardens, tatami mats, Zen-inspired decor, sliding doors, and shoji screens of the typical Japanese home. She has placed a frame decorated with iridescent hearts around her television. A girl lies on her couch like a sleeping beauty, surrounded by Anna Sui splendour.

Still others are in sharp focus - such as in the work Anna Sui. Others are blurred, emphasising the solidity of the material objects around them. Some are absent from their photograph, their apartment and clothing acting as a portrait. Through photography and writing, Tsuzuki explores the near-obsessional way fans of individual designers collect their pieces. This time, however, Tsuzuki has focused on 30 individuals who have turned fashion into a kind of religious experience. This show, Happy Victims, continues in a similar vein. He revealed cluttered rooms that would put the messiest teenager to shame. As his photographs showed, not everyone in Japan is into minimalism and hi-tech gadgets.

I n his bestselling book, Tokyo - A Certain Style, Kyoichi Tsuzuki photographed 100 Tokyo apartments.

Hell on Wheels - Freak Japanese Motorcycles by Kyoichi Tsuzuki