Born in Tokyo in 1970, Norifumi graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Hosei University. After working in the editorial department of Magazine House BRUTUS and as a part-time cameraman for Asahi Shimbun’s AERA, he turned freelance. Beginning with China’s Silk Road, he has visited over 50 countries and regions, including Antarctica and the equator. Norifumi’s publications include a collection of photos, Tairiku Rōnin (“Wanderer of the Continents”), and his recent work Tabi, Tokidoki Leica (“Travel, and Sometimes Leica”), a collection of photo essays published by Ei-Publishing Co. Ltd.