Araki's pictures of trussed-up women in various states of undress – currently on show in London – explore the hidden eroticism beneath Japan's polite society.
In 1992, when the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki presented a series of loud, intermittently shocking images at a gallery in Austria, the institution's female guards walked out. Araki's photographs were sexist, degrading, oppressively fetishistic, they argued; if the work was installed, they wouldn't be coming back.
