This Thursday, the most comprehensive exhibition of the 65-year-old Japanese photographer's work to be held in Britain opens at the Barbican in London, filling both floors of the main gallery. Subtitled Self. Life. Death, the show covers the entirety of Araki's career, from the early 1960s onwards. Coinciding with the exhibition, Phaidon Press is publishing a major monograph, and the Barbican is screening Arakimentari, a funny and often moving documentary about his life and work.