Mark Edward Harris has traveled and photographed in 80 countries. His awards include a CLIO Award and an Aurora Gold Award for his photographic work and an ACE Award for television directing. His books include Faces of the Twentieth Century: Master Photographers and Their Work which won the prestigious New York Book Show Photography Book of the Year and Best of Show awards; The Way of the Japanese Bath, winner of a Premier Print Award; Wanderlust which led to him being named Photographer of the Year at the 2004 Black and White Spider Awards and the book itself being named the people/photography book of the year at the International Photography Awards and the Prix del la Photographie Paris; in 2007 Chronicle Books published Inside North Korea and in 2008 Inside Iran; in 2009 an expanded 2nd edition of The Way of the Japanese Bath was released.