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In the streets and transit corridors of urban Japan, constructed images of people compete for space with real ones. Smiling models, aspirational faces, and mythical monsters tower over commuters, guards, and passersby — who remain largely indifferent, absorbed in their own private worlds.

This series explores the quiet tension between the image and the real, the manufactured and the human. In a society where advertising and visual culture are woven into the very fabric of public space, we are never truly alone — we share our streets with faces we never invited, identities we never chose, and ideals we never agreed to.

Shot entirely in black and white across Japan, Uninvited Faces asks who owns the urban gaze — and whether, surrounded by so many images of people, we have become harder to see.