Press & Media
KAMENYA OMOTE is Japan's only mask specialty store. Our project "That Face" — hyper-realistic masks made from the faces of real, anonymous people — has been covered by news media around the world.
Selected coverage
- Reuters — Wearing someone else’s face: hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan
- Reuters (photo feature) — Hyper-realistic masks go on sale in Japan
- VICE — This man is ‘buying’ faces to make creepily realistic masks
- Hyperallergic — Japanese shop sells hyperrealistic 3D-printed face masks
- Mashable SE Asia — Japanese company will pay you to turn your face into a hyper-realistic mask
- grape Japan — Japanese company will “buy your face” for super realistic masks
Our work has also been featured by the BBC, the South China Morning Post, and numerous Japanese television programs and publications.
About the shop
KAMENYA OMOTE sells one-of-a-kind masks by contemporary Japanese artists, traditional kitsune (fox) masks as an authorized Komendo retailer, Noh-style pieces, and paper craft mask kits, and organizes TOKYO MASK FESTIVAL, Japan's largest mask exhibition. The physical shop is open weekends 13:00–18:00 in Kyojima, Sumida, Tokyo. We ship worldwide via this online store.
Press inquiries
For interviews, photos, or filming requests, please contact us.