Tomoko Kikuchi is a Japanese-born photographer. Kikuchi has investigated the impact of rapid social change of mainland China on notions of gender, family, and social development as a photographer over fifteen years. Kikuchi visualizes the energy that crashes out of conflicts, and the human power to overcome contradiction and complexity in the world. Kikuchi's photography, video, and video installation works closely observe the social realities of marginalized communities. They examine themes such as gender, life and death, war and history as accumulation of individual memory, focusing on the people who live in the cracks of a dynamically transforming society. I and I (2005-2013) and Lost Boundaries (2012) are a series of photographs and video works about young Chinese LGBTQI+ people who wander about the unclear boundaries separating men and women, where big changes are occurring in the sexuality of urban youth. Kikuchi's work often highlights underrepresented Chinese queer communities.