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たかさご じゅんじ。写真家。1962年、宮城県石巻市生まれ。
ダイビング専門誌の専属カメラマンを経て1989年に独立。世界中の国々を訪れ、海の中から生き物、虹、風景、星空まで、地球全体をフィールドに撮影活動を続けている。
著書は、「光と虹と神話」（山と渓谷社）、「PLANET of WATER」(National Geographic)、「night rainbow 〜祝福の虹」「ASTRA」「虹の星」「夜の虹の向こうへ」「Children of the Rainbow」「LIGHT on LIFE」「free」「BLUE」「life」（以上小学館）、「Dear Earth」「そら色の夢」「南の夢の海へ」（以上パイインターナショナル）、「クジラの見る夢 〜ジャックマイヨールとの海の日々〜」（共著・七賢出版）ほか多数。
ザルツブルグ博物館、Nikon THE GALLERY、東京ミッドタウンフジフイルムスクエア、渋谷パルコ、阪急百貨店、大丸百貨店、コニカミノルタプラザなど写真展多数開催。2008年には、外務省主催・太平洋島サミット記念写真展「Pacific Islands」を担当。
自然のこと、自然と人間の関係、人間の役割などを、トークショーや、テレビ、ラジオ、雑誌などを通して幅広く伝え続けている。
みやぎ絆大使。海の環境NPO法人“Oceanic Wildlife Society”理事。

Photographer. Born in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture.
After photographing exclusively for a diving magazine, he becomes independent in 1989. With the entire globe as his work field, he shoots his way around the world capturing moments in nature from underwater to animals, to rainbows, landscapes and stars.His published work include “hikari to niji to shinwa”(yama to keikokusha), “PLANET of WATER”(National Geographic),“night rainbow”, “LIGHT on LIFE”, “free”, “BLUE”, “life” (published from Shogakukan), “Dear Earth”, “Sora Iro no Yume” (published from Pie International), “The Days with Jacques” (coauthor, published by Shichiken Shuppan), and many more. Exhibitions of his work have been held at Nikon THE GALLERY, Tokyo Midtown Fuji Film Square, Shibuya Parco, Hankyu Hyakkaten, Konica Minolta Plaza, Salzburg Museum, to name a few. In 2008, he was appointed to the Pacific Islands Summit commemoration photo exhibition “Pacific Islands”, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Takasago makes appearances on a wide range of media including talk shows and TV shows, radio programs and magazines, in which he continues to communicate his thoughts on topics such as nature, and the relationship between nature and humans.
Takasago was appointed as a Kizuna Ambassador for Miyagi prefecture in 2018.
He serves as a director at “Oceanic Wildlife Society”, an NPO organization for marine conservation.