Michael S. Yamashita

Michael Yamashita is an American photographer who was born in 1949 in San Francisco, California, but grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. In 1971 he graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Asian studies. He traveled to Japan to teach English as a second language after college. He began working for the National Geographic in 1979 and since then traveled to places as diverse as Somalia, Sudan, England, Ireland, and Papua New Guinea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran. For the past thirty years he has specialized in Asia, including Japan, China and Tibet (Wikipedia).