3 Lemons Gallery

Issei Suda was an eminent Japanese photographer who captured characters and customs from a distinctive perspective that was both shrewd and playful. He spent several years working as a stage and publicity photographer for the experimental theatrical troupe Tenjo Sajiki, after which he became a freelance photographer in 1971. His photographs seek extraordinary moments in seemingly banal situations, revealing dramatic narratives and profound insight in scenes from daily life.

 

Suda was born in 1940 in Tokyo, Japan, and passed away in 2019. A large scale retrospective was held in 2013 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. His work is included in the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, among others.