From Patrick's Facebook: "Kimiko Yoshida is a Paris-based Japanese artist who does not believe that any self-portrait tells the real truth about a person. To subvert this idea, she has produced "self-portraits" of herself that cover her real self with unbelievably gorgeous images and costumes--many inspired by traditional and tribal costumes from around the world. Her creativity and images leave me speechless. Have a look and lets go see her in Paris."

400 self-portraits by Kimiko Yoshida, shot between 2001 and 2010, edited by Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (Paris, France). The artist's statement: Art is above all the experience of transformation. My Self-portraits, or what go by that name, are only the place and the formula of the mutation. The only raison d’être of art is to transform what art alone can transform. All that’s not me, that’s what interests me. To be there where I think I am not, to disappear where I think I am, that is what matters. Listen to the first verse of "I Am the Walrus" by John Lennon: "I am he as you are he as you are me"...