Together with the likes of Issei Suda, Masao Mochizuki belongs to the fourth generation of students of the Tokyo College of Photography, a school that has produced numerous prominent photographers. Even though he hadn’t made particularly noteworthy achievements in the 1970s-80s, a time when Japanese photographers were celebrated around the world, his one-man exhibition “Television” in 1998 received a lot of attention also in the West, and a book with the same title that was published in 2001 finally catapulted him to international fame.