Juan Carlos Ortiz, Souls of Japan (Student (2019))

"Souls of Japan" is a project on which I am working whilst living in Tokyo. As a foreigner in this intensely private country I feel like a spectator of a very different culture. I am often amazed by the contrasts in this country; the different aspects of life here and the souls who live them. I observe their routines, their habits and their rituals. Each one so different to what I am used to as a westerner. But there are of course, some similarities: Life, work, love, searching for who we are and what our place is in the world. Because even though we are not all souls of Japan, we are souls of this world.

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