This Photographer Spent 1,021 Days Traveling the World. Here’s What He Saw.

By Jordan G. Teicher

Larung Gar Gompa, East Tibet. A dense collection of monk quarters sprawled out over a hill.*                                                                                                                                                                                         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.

Takezawa thought it would take 18 months, but his travels ended up lasting 1,021 days, taking him to 103 countries on four continents. Photos from those travels are on display in the exhibition, “Land,” at Foto-Care Gallery in Manhattan until May 5.

“I realized that one year was not nearly long enough to complete my project. What I wanted to see and experience were places and people that I had never witnessed before and that moved me in some way emotionally or spiritually,” he said by email...Read more, photos...