From Beijing, I travelled with my family on short trips, very often to Tokyo. It is the nearest foreign city after Seoul, but it has a completely different identity and character. Beijing was about to become modern, while Tokyo was already the city of the future. At the same time, photographic technology was changing very fast. The arrival of digital was a key moment: Kodak filed for bankruptcy while Instagram was bought by Facebook for a billion dollars. I photographed with both film and digital cameras.

After each stay in Tokyo, I came back with dozens of shots. The same realisation always came: each photo brought back a memory and many questions. Do you remember what was next to that spot? Tokyo does not let itself be easily captured. That is where the idea of In Tokyo came from: collages of the memory of a day in the Japanese capital. I believe anyone who has seen this iconic city will recognise themselves in a collage.

The series was published as a book in 2012. The In Tokyo collages were exhibited in Spain at the very first international photography festival in Alicante (PhotoALC, 2014) and received good coverage in the newspapers El Mundo and Información. However, to this day I have not yet been able to show all the photos and collages in a single exhibition.

Exhibitions

• 2013 – Launch of the book “In Tokyo”, Fnac, Alicante

• 2013 – Outdoor screening of “In Tokyo”, El Claustro, Alicante

• 2014 – Group exhibition, “In Tokyo”, PhotoALC, Alicante

• 2015 – Group exhibition, “In Tokyo”, Spotuart, l'Ancienne Quincaillerie, Brussels

• 2022 – Solo exhibition, “Itinéraires Chromatiques'“, dojo Rōgetsudō, Brussels