Sawako Fukai is an independent editor/curator and art project coordinator based in Tokyo.
Graduated from Sophia University, Japan in 2005. After working as a director of contemporary photography gallery/art book publishers for over ten years, she became independent. Now she is working in various branding and editorial projects mainly in the field of photography, art and design. She lived 5 years in Europe including London and Amsterdam. She also works as a translator for publications including Japanese edition of Photography Is Magic by Charlotte Cotton (Originally published by Aperture, US in 2015) . Now she runs her own editorial agency SW_ working with clients including Shiseido, SIRI SIRI, MMA Inc., IMA magazine, OUTSET Nederland, University of Pennsylvania and Tokyo Art Book Fair. She is also a producer of Tokyo Photographic Research, a Tokyo-based artist collective’s project on contemporary photography and runs her own project A NEW SCALE.