Tokyo, 2025

Tokyo, 2025 unfolds as a deliberate walk. Apparent similarities reveal radical differences, unsettling the gaze. Interiors, surfaces, and controlled light compose a precise series in which walking becomes a method of observation and position.

Tokyo, 2025 unfolds as a slow walk through a meta-place defined by concentration and restraint. The series takes shape through movement, through a measured wandering in which the observer becomes progressively unsettled by forms that appear familiar yet reveal themselves as radically different.

In Tokyo, thresholds, interiors, surfaces, and light initially seem recognizable. The city presents readable signs, almost universal in appearance. This familiarity operates as a perceptual trap. Each resemblance opens onto a decisive gap. What looks close turns distant. The walk becomes an experience of continuous displacement, where orientation falters while attention sharpens.

Photography accompanies this movement. The frame tightens, the gaze pauses, recalibrates, accepts imbalance. Photographing Tokyo activates a discipline of detail and restraint, where each image emerges from a fragile adjustment between what appears and what withdraws. The city compresses time, producing a condition of constant renewal in which disappearance occurs instantly, without accumulation.

In Tokyo, 2025, the images function as mental rooms generated by the walk itself. They register an active disorientation, where similarity transforms into distance and walking becomes a method for reading the world. Photography operates as a way of holding this instability, inhabiting the gap revealed by resemblance.

This project is a candidate for PhMuseum 2026 Photography Grant

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