In the late 1970s, England was in the grips of a recession. Endless trade-union strikes led to power cuts, a "three-day" working week and streets engulfed in uncollected rubbish. What transpired was a massive cultural shift, with history and politics colliding with a youth movement that would go on to aggressively shape the country.
England adopted a newly creative and motivated generation and at the same time, suffering similar adversity, Japan's youth became more opinionated, more adventurous and more expressive. Musicians and artists alike would inevitably collide. One such person caught up in this creative frenzy was a young Japanese photographer, Masayoshi Sukita.
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Sukita was 34 when he first photographed British musicians Marc Bolan and David Bowie, and he continued to photograph them and countless other artists for many years. "Sound and Vision" at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Syabi) provides a window onto Sukita's career, which stretches across more than 40 years, documenting his position as an important Japanese photographer while describing the width and breadth of his activities, both multifarious and international.