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The Japan Photo Project
The Japan Photo Project is a unique in-depth documentary photo project initiated by two photographers who plan to explore Japanese society through two different perspectives: the point of view of a Japanese native and the point of view of a Westerner. This collaboration between Toru Morimoto, documentary photographer from Kobe, and Tina Bagué, travel photographer from Barcelona, is an innovative approach that will result in an incredeible body of color and black and white images that will resonate with audiences world-wide. They want to show real Japan by ceating images that embody the true spirit of Japan, which foreigners often do not see and the natives often take for granted. They will travel all over Japan for one year, 2010, by a mortor home. Once the project is completed, the works will become a photography book, and the exhibition will travel as many cities as possible.
Authors

Tina Bagué (Barcelona, Spain 1974) www.tinabague.com

Since 1998 she works as a freelance photographer for various publications. Shortly thereafter, she also began to travel around the world with her camera. For the last nine years, she has traveled more than 20 countries, producing travel reportages that have appeared in many magazines such as El País Semanal, Condé Nast Traveler, Lonely Planet Magazine, etc. Since 2002 she is also the editor in chief of Digitalfoto published in Spain. Currently she works in color and digital.

Toru Morimoto (Akashi, Japan 1972)  www.torumorimoto.com 

He started working as a photographer for the Daily Nation, a Kenyan newspaper in Nairobi while he was a master student of the photojournalism department in the School of Journalism, University of Missouri. After doing internship in Magnum Photos and The New York Times in New York, he moved to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and started freelancing to cover the whole West Africa. Since 2004, he has been based in Barcelona, Spain, and has been working on photographic documentary projects. He won a prize from POYi in 2007, and Ueno Hikoma Award in 2009.