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.

Guatemala

Niger

Niger

 Sunset in Akatama, Chile

Trinidad, Cuba

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

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

Cuba

Africa

Egypt

Brazil

Uyuni, Bolivia

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

Mali

 Mali

Hungary

The Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan

Myanmar

Mali

India

Peru

Mali

Ethiopia

The Wodaabe Tribe , Niger

Ethiopia

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

Maras, Peru

Bali

Nepal

Peru

 Goreme, Turkey

India

Ethiopia

Bolivia

Lalung Gal Gompa, East Tibet

Niger

Cuba

Georgia

　 Blue Hole, Belize

Okinawa

India

Brazil

India

Chile

Tajikistan

Labanon

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

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

Ethiopia

Chile

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

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