Blasting into the scene with his Kimurai Ihei photo award wining okinawan portraits 2010-2012,  Akaaka has released a throwback to Ryuichi Ishikawa's not-too-far off past with Adrenamix, an intense photographic record that the photographer made of his blazing twenties. The book echoes the best parts of a zine- its handheld sized is barely able to contain its content; the trappings of a wild Okinawan youth- an intense period of hot tropical nights surrounded by friends as screaming motorcycles blast past, blurs of indifference to society- and parties and women, with fire and noise- a book of an endless night full of outbursts sloshed by a crazed drunkenness- a night punctuated with graphic sexual encounters of all kinds. Adrenamix vividly protests against anything less than a hunger to roar out the "cry of life" Ishikawa lusts for in the poem with which he brings the book to a close.



Ryuichi Ishikawa

1984　Born in Okinawa Prefecture.
2006　Begins photography. Graduates from Okinawa International University.
2008　Studies avant-garde dance with Seiryu Shiba.
2010　Studies photography with Tetsushi Yuzaki.
Holds the Brain Portraits exhibition at Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum.
Self-publishes a photo book titled Shiba Dancing Planet. Holds the exhibition Mei at Gallery oMac.
2011　Participates in the group show Fragments 2 at Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum.
Takes part in 3rd Shomei Tomatsu Digital Photography Workshop.
Participates in the group show Open Okinawa at Space Tropical.
2012　Participates in the group show Okinawa 0 Point:
Exhibition Marking 40th Anniversary of Okinawa's Return to Japan.
Receives award in the 35th New Cosmos of Photography competition.
2013　Participates in the group show Fragments 3 at Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum.
Self-publishes a photo book titled Seiryu Shiba: Allure of the Female-Role Player. Dances in Shiba's solo recital.
2014　Participates in the group show Daido Moriyama Portfolio Review at Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum.
Self-publishes a photo book titled Ryuichi Ishikawa.
Holds the exhibition Ryuichi Ishikawa at Gallery Lafayette.
Participates in the group show show case #3 at eN arts.
Ishikawa's books okinawan portraits 2010-2012 and A Grand Polyphony
are published by AKAAKA Art Publishing.
Holds the zkop exhibition at ATSUKOBAROUH,
okinawan portraits 2010-2012 exhibition at Place M,
and A Grand Polyphony exhibition at Nikon Salon.
He received the 40th Kimura Ihei Photo Award for okinawan portraits 2010-2012 and A Grand Polyphony,
and also received the P​h​o​t​o​g​r​a​p​h​i​c​ ​S​o​c​i​e​t​y​ ​o​f​ ​J​a​p​a​n​ Newcomer's ​A​w​a​r​d​ for his creative activity.
Holds solo exhibitions:
okinawan portraits - The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
A Grand Polyphony - Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
/ A Grand Polyphony - Galerie Nord, Paris
adrenamix - nagune(Shinjuku Golden Gai), Tokyo
+zkop - OCAC, Okinawa.
Perticipates in the group shows:
portraits - The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
the 40th Kimura Ihei Photo Award Winners' exhibition - Konika Minorta Plaza, Tokyo
Qusamura × 10 - NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
2015 Portraits at The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
The 40th Kimura Ihei Photo Award Winners' Exhibition - Konika Minolta Plaza, Tokyo
The Photographic Society of Japan Winners' Exhibition at Fujifilm Photo Salon,Tokyo
Qusamura × 10 - NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
The Kimura Ihei Photo Award Winners' 40th Anniversary Exhibition - Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa.

adrenamix A mouth wide-opened in the black of night Shadows racing through, riding astride mother's voice Resounding tottering gait through a forest of NOTHING An enlightened rut, piercing Loneliness I feel with my ass before the overflowing foam soaks into the earth Meandering eyeballs scattered are unable to find a river to dive into in a weird land so closed that one cannot even get lost in it Nimble dryness extends a feeler for a body with the wetness of a marsh A mountain range of stiff flesh My tongue creeps along its veins, like scooping up the beads of sweat that flow down the ridge I already realize the foolishness of all of it before getting to the top The end of the production toxic, A pebble with no will is to overwrite the absurdity of the erect testicle with nonsense, furthermore Men muddy their pulses in white as women fly over the spring, laughing in the summer night Could it be called a night if with no end? Is a door that never opens still a door? The darkness lightened, and yet the darkness it is A heart fell and torn, a cry of life gushes out, and still the silence it is We such creatures, devouring retort-packed time on the fluorescent display shelves, crawling across the asphalt to get flustered by the setting moon However dead I drunk, can't smash a bottle of alcohol Trickles of memory and meeting a fierce beast -What is waiting on the second day AkaAka http://www.akaaka.com/ Zekkeisha https://www.instagram.com/zekkeisha/