Tsutomu Endo was born in Omachi, Nagano Prefecture. He is expert in snowboarding culture and specializes in shooting around snow-covered mountains. From the 1990s, Endo visited snowy mountains around the world, operating at the forefront of snowboarding culture while presenting many works. From the early days, Endo has embraced “inner focus” as his attitude towards photography, following a journey in search of harmony between a dynamic planet and the life thereon through art photography, nature, culture and so on. A collection of his works can be found in Inner Focus (2015, Shogakukan).