One century later, in 2007, Ethan Levitas was given the opportunity to photograph a "maiko" (apprentice) and a "geiko" (professional), and created a series of portraits by inverting this old process. He photographed in color and transferred them to black and white or inversed the colors to make them appear as negatives.

Ethan Levitas plays with references between past and present in order to manifest the passage of time in photography, suggesting an unchanging status of these living symbols.

Geisha Studies is a series of 8 photographs.