"....with its frontal assault on the medium of photography itself, could more easily be read through a modernist lens, Suda was also a precise formalist who carefully constructed photographic spaces to reveal subtle distortions and teasing visual cul-de-sacs. The atmosphere is austere with a deep undercurrent of dislocation and alienation, the result of rapid socioeconomic changes engulfing Japan. But one would not mistake this work for documentary."
