| Climbing career | |
|---|---|
| Type of climber | High altitude mountaineer |
| Known for | First Japanese man to climb all 14 eight-thousanders and the Seven Summits |
| Major ascents | Mount Everest (2001) Shishapangma (2024) |
Naoki Ishikawa (石川 直樹, Ishikawa Naoki, b. Tokyo, 1977) is a Japanese photographer and mountaineer. He has climbed all 14 eight-thousanders and the seven summits. In 2001, he began to take photographs seriously and thereafter his ventures as a photographer and writer have intimately linked to his travels and climbs, as he often photographs and writes about his own adventures to various remote landscapes. Ishikawa's analog photographs frequently capture nature at its most extreme and the people that inhabit it, gaining a broad recognition for his ethnographic sensibility and curiosity, informed by his study of anthropology and ethnography at Waseda University.[1][2]
Ishikawa actively participates in the education of photography and anthropology; he has served as a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology at Rikkyo University and the Photography department of Nihon University and is currently the director of the Photo Archipelago Setouchi school.[3]