Street Photography nominee

Often the western eye is dominated by the ethnocentric and orientalist idea that the Japanese are a fundamentally homogenous society. How many times have we heard that all Japanese are the same, a statement that implies an underlying comparison with a diverse and autonomous 'we'? This series aims to break with these kinds of stereotypes through a look at the day to day of Japan, the result not of a tourist trip but of a period of living together in that country. It pretends to be a simple and unpretentious portrait of Japanese people. The main characters are anonymous people that have crossed with the camera and have told it about their world through their different ways of dressing, their relationship with what surrounds them and their gestures. In order to highlight the expressive force of their anonymity, they are portraits without faces. This simplicity wants to be transmitted both in the renunciation of a narrative or a specific message to which subordinate the people portrayed, as well as in the renunciation of colors. It is a work in which the everyday, what often scapes the eye being replaced or ignored by great stories, is located in the center.

Ph.D. Candidate in Intercultural Studies at Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, specialized in Japanese Studies. Research stay at Kobe University, Japan.