I'm Josep Bautista, photographer and turistologist, and you’ll find in my bio the journey that made me who I am today.

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Born in Barcelona, raised in trilingual education in Catalan, English, and Spanish. Graduated from college in Tourism Management, specialized as travel and tour leader, and obtained a Master’s Degree in Travel Journalism. During the college years, lived in Finland, Catalunya, and Japan. Country that would become a second home between 2012 to 2021, where he continued developing his career as tour leader and studied fashion photography whilst working and combining tourism, as an assistant at Studio Ebis and working on events as photographer, such as the music festival Summersonic.  In 2021, due to the World pandemic, had to move back to Barcelona and start from scratch once again after 2022. Now working full time between Barcelona and Japan, both in travel photography and tour leader in Japan.

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• Travel, commercial and fashion photographer 

• Travel consultant, helping to create and design itineraries for travel agencies and tours in Japan, like Artisal Travel photography.

• Published his first travel book in 2018, 3 ways to Mount Fuji. A light travel novel and guide book to Japan (only in Spanish).

• Creator of the travel blog Hype in Tokyo, home for all travel articles from Japan, tips and life in Japan as an expat (Evolved into video content creating and Youtube channel)  

• Graduated in Tourism management (2011) and Master's degree in travel Journalism (2015)

• Graduated in Fashion Photography at Tokyo Visual Arts (2020) and master’s degree in Fashion and commercial photography (2022)