Sumiko Kiyooka Petit Tomato

A diverse range of colors, from ruby red to golden yellow and deep purple.

However, Kiyooka is best known for her work from the late 1970s onward, when she became the "doyenne" of a genre of erotic photography featuring pubescent and adolescent girls. It was in this period that she created the series that would define her legacy, the monthly magazine Petit Tomato . sumiko kiyooka petit tomato

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Kiyooka turned her camera toward female relationships and identity. Between 1968 and 1973, she published a series of pioneering books—such as Natsuko and Sylvia (1970) and Woman and Woman Lesbian World (1969)—which combined photography, fiction, and poetry to document lesbian lives in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. A diverse range of colors, from ruby red