Takeshi TAKEDA
竹田武史
Born in Kyoto in 1974, Takeshi Takeda graduated from the School of Theology at Doshisha University. During his studies, he took a year off to travel around the Australian continent with a single-lens reflex camera. After returning to Japan, he studied photography with Takao Inoue. In 1997, he participated in the Japan-China joint research project “The Search for the Yangtze River Civilization” as a documentary photographer, covering various parts of China over five years. In 2001, Takeda became an independent freelance photographer, continuing his travels in China and Asia in search of the roots of Japanese spiritual culture. He received the Konica Minolta Foto Premio Grand Prize in 2010 and the Kyoto Prefecture Culture Award Encouragement Prize in 2014. His publications include 6,300 Kilometers on the Yangtze (Tosei-sha, 2021), Memoirs of the Peach Blossom Land: Ten Years with the People of Basha Village in China (Shinchosha, 2015), Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse [Japanese Edition with Photographs] (Shinchosha, 2013), Journey Along the Ancient Tea Horse Road (Tankosha, 2010), and Chang Jiang (Mitsumura Suiko Shoin, 2005).