If what strikes one first about Araki is his frightening energy, it is matched by his inventiveness and generosity as an image-maker. He is equally creative in the way he recontextualises his past, and reworks images in order to bring them to life in new ways: making enlarged, ghostly prints from old transparencies whose colour has degraded; creating, in the series Dead Reality, images of everyday scenes ruined by developing the prints in boiling fixative, a conscious echo of the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just about every technical expedient possible is played out here, with the exception of digital photography, whose truthfulness Araki mistrusts. He is much concerned with authenticity, yet his work is also full of plays on what is real and what is not, what is staged and what has been discovered.