In March 2010, photographer Uruma Takezawa left Japan with two backpacks—one on his front and one on his back. More than a thousand days later he returned. Carrying only his clothes, cameras, a ...

Award-winning Japanese photographer Uruma Takezawa's work documents the depth of the human spirit.

Uruma Takezawa was in his 10 th year as a professional marine photographer when he started to yearn for a change of scenery. In 2010, he decided to come ashore for a journey.

In 2010, Japanese photographer Uruma Takezawa embarked on an ambitious journey to explore and document people and places in the world's more remote corners–where people live off the land and in ...