2. Incredible photographic odyssey which takes you around the world in 1,000 days.
Uruma Takezawa, a Japanese photographer, has just won the third annual Nikkei National
Geographic photo prize
They are the images that capture the faces and dramatic landscapes one
photographer encountered during a 1000-day journey around the world.
Award-winning photographer Uruma Takezawa has made a living discovering and
documenting communities in the most remote areas around the globe.
For his latest book, the Japanese adventurer spent 1,021 days on the road, to capture
amazing images on an odyssey that took him to 103 countries on four continents.

3. Guatemala

4. Niger

6. Niger

7. Sunset in Akatama, Chile

8. Trinidad, Cuba

10. Lalung Gal Gompa,
East Tibet, exists a
dense collection of
monk quarters laid out
on top of each other
on a hillside

11. A woman dances in the streets of Havana in Cuba, which the photographer said were filled with rhythm and dancing

12. Cuba

13. Africa

14. Egypt

15. Brazil

16. Uyuni, Bolivia

17. Standing stones tower against a
background of clouds in Isla de Pascua,
Chile, otherwise known as Easter Island

19. Mali
Mali

20. Hungary

21. The Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan

22. Myanmar

23. Mali

24. India

25. Peru

26. Mali

28. Ethiopia

29. The Wodaabe Tribe , Niger

30. Ethiopia

32. Hallstatt, Austria, is home to
one of the world's largest
collections of hand-painted
human skulls, known as the
Beinhaus

33. Maras, Peru

35. Nepal

36. Peru

37. Goreme, Turkey

38. India

39. Ethiopia

40. Bolivia

41. Lalung Gal Gompa, East Tibet

42. Niger

43. Cuba

44. Georgia

45. Blue Hole, Belize

46. Okinawa

47. India

48. Brazil

49. India

51. Chile

52. Tajikistan

53. Labanon

55. In Budapest, Hungary, Takezawa captured several travellers waiting at a local train station through a marked pane of glass

56. In Tobilisi, Georgia, two little girls sit on a window ledge, which is protected by metal bars, which they peer through

57. Ethiopia

58. Chile

59. Tazara Railways, in east Africa, is a 1,860 km single-track railway, which links Tanzania and Zambia

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