Faces can give us so many clues about a person, such as their character and the kind of life they have led. Footwear on the other hand, doesn’t.
Or there again, does it?
Photographed in an old part of Tokyo, in the doorway of a rather rickety wooden house, these tattered tatami sandals somehow seem to offer slight hints — or at the very least tantalising tidbits — of not only what their owner might be like, but what they may have been through.