
The Inside of Life
- Publisher
- Akaaka Art Publishing
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 978-4-86541-133-1
- Specifications
- Portfolio of 51 large-format prints
340 x 340 mm
Board cover with rubber-band closure
Limited edition of 700 copies, signed
Art direction by Hikari Machiguchi
A portfolio-style book of 51 large-format prints made since 2015 in a mountain that the Okinawa-born photographer Ryuichi Ishikawa has repeatedly visited. After the snapshots and portraits of A Grand Polyphony and okinawan portraits, which accept what stands before him without bias and look for life, he stands before nature and finds death and life in equal measure, feels his own existence dissolving, and keeps photographing. The pictures blur the borders between human and nature, nullify individuality, reverse inside and outside, and show the transience and connectedness of lives, asking what it means to exist. Each picture is presented as a large print, stacked in the form of a portfolio so that every image can be seen on its own.