Keizo Kitajima is an award-winning artist whose photography has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums throughout Japan and Europe since 1979. His series, "Portraits + Places" has been on-going since 1989 and explores the simultaneous connection and disconnection between humans and the places they inhabit. Originally a street photographer, shooting people interacting within daily life in cities, the "Portraits + Places" project began when Kitajima decided to look closely at the dependence of people upon place, and place upon people. To delve deeply and carefully at the local--and thus global--relevance of this, Kitajima separated the two from one another, and the resulting two bodies of work speak independently, as well as collectively about individual humanness, landscape, memory, history, and globalization.