Japan

As a tourist, Japan offers everything that can make a trip interesting: an ancient culture overlaid with a new contemporary identity; a rich, modern, orderly and safe country; some of the best food in the world in countless restaurants; enough iconic sights to ensure beautiful memories; a culture of beauty and design; and a cocktail of technology, modernity and respect for the past that is woven together with an almost seamless thread. As a person, once you get over the charm of this country, one realizes its tremendous contradictions, with the city of Tokyo being its clearest example: a mix of respect and transgression, crowds and loneliness, money and spirit, technology and craftsmanship, past and future. As a photographer, one first focuses on the scenic side, so beautiful and different from that of my country, but in the end, if you look closely, the contradictions appear in the images.