"It was 1997 and the new millennium was imminent; one could feel the tense anticipation about what was to come next. I was alone in Japan, a place I had never been before. During the day I would go out looking for my own sense of the place, photographing, exploring notions of centre, a place of convergence, as the world expanded before me in its uncertain course. Many years have passed and I felt a need to go back to these pictures. The millennium is long gone but the vertigo of uncertainty is yet to disappear." (António Júlio Duarte)