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Almost 20 years ago, my mother, Ana Anes, took a trip to Japan, documented in photographs taken by her and her friend Teresa Alves. These photographs, together with the Japanese souvenirs and toys I received when I was 4 years old, sparked a fascination in me and a desire to visit Japan.

This year, I was able to spend three months in Tokyo and visit other cities in the country, where I tried to make a photographic documentation parallel to that of my mother. I tried to reproduce some of the photographs, locating the exact places, but I also created less immediate links between the photographs from 2005 and those from 2024.