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Naoki Ishikawa "Dhaulagiri / Kangchenjunga / Manaslu"
Gyre Gallery
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Naoki Ishikawa
From the spring to the autumn of 2022, photographer Naoki Ishikawa traveled many times to the Himalayan region straddling Nepal and Pakistan, almost as a physical reaction to the previous two years of being unable to journey abroad.
(8611m) and Broad Peak (8051m) in July; Nanga Parbat (8126m) in August, and Manaslu (8163m) in September. Having summited all but Nanga Parbat, where he was forced to withdraw due to avalanches, he returned to Japan in October.
Ishikawa explains that in pushing his body to the limit by climbing one 8,000m peak after another, a strong sensation that cannot be expressed in superficial terms like "a feeling of being alive" seemed to seep into his very being, drop by drop. He had the strange sense that his body was somehow being regenerated each day.
Under extremely demanding conditions, physically and mentally, he meticulously records each day of a climb from the base of a Himalayan mountain to its summit using an old medium format camera loaded with negative film. It is fair to say that these feats of photography venture far from the boundaries of conventional mountain photography, and they are physical endeavors that cannot be replicated. From among the photographs which Ishikawa literally risked his life to take, this exhibition presents photographs from the three mountains of Kanchenjunga, Dhaulagiri, and Manasur in the Himalayan region of Nepal.
(8611m) and Broad Peak (8051m) in July; Nanga Parbat (8126m) in August, and Manaslu (8163m) in September. Having summited all but Nanga Parbat, where he was forced to withdraw due to avalanches, he returned to Japan in October.
Ishikawa explains that in pushing his body to the limit by climbing one 8,000m peak after another, a strong sensation that cannot be expressed in superficial terms like "a feeling of being alive" seemed to seep into his very being, drop by drop. He had the strange sense that his body was somehow being regenerated each day.
Under extremely demanding conditions, physically and mentally, he meticulously records each day of a climb from the base of a Himalayan mountain to its summit using an old medium format camera loaded with negative film. It is fair to say that these feats of photography venture far from the boundaries of conventional mountain photography, and they are physical endeavors that cannot be replicated. From among the photographs which Ishikawa literally risked his life to take, this exhibition presents photographs from the three mountains of Kanchenjunga, Dhaulagiri, and Manasur in the Himalayan region of Nepal.
Schedule | Dec 17 (Sat) 2022-Feb 26 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://en.gyre-omotesando.com/artandgallery/naokiishikawa-photoexhibition/ | ||||
| Venue | Gyre Gallery https://en.gyre-omotesando.com/art/ | ||||
| Location | 3F Gyre, 5-10-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 | ||||
| Access | 4 minute walk from exit 5 at Meiji-jingumae Station on the Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines. 5 minute walk from exit A1 at Omotesando Station on the Hanzomon, Chiyoda and Ginza lines, 6 minute walk from the Omotesando exit of JR Harajuku Station. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3498-6990 | ||||
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