Photographer Shinya Arimoto was born in Osaka and has been living in Tokyo since 2006. One of his projects, Ariphoto, documents the inhabitants of Tokyo. The series, which was five years in the making, focuses on the eccentricities of the people of Tokyo as they go about their daily lives. Arimoto moves around the city like a voyeur, “seeking out an unrefined or rudimentary, even primitive, kind of life, always in transition,” as he says of these photographs.
Shinya Arimoto’s Ariphoto series will be on display at the coming Goa Photo festival (www.goaphoto.in).