About
“In-yo” is an artist collective consisting of Keita Takayanagi (writer, haiku poet, planner, director) and Hiroshi Ishikawa (photographer, director)
who express the light and shadows that exist in all things.
Concept
“Art comes first”
Expressing the depth of Japanese culture from an artistic point of view through “food”
To achieve this, the most important thing is not to “appeal” but to “attract” through overwhelming beauty.
Our works are composed of four axes.
The four important axes to capture are “angle of view”, “light and shadow”, “sound”, and “poetry” which are rooted in the long history of Japan’s cultural background.
By adding the act of editing, we are able to create a “depth of Japanese culture” in accordance with the theme of each work which makes “In-Yo” very unique and outstanding.
Who
Keita Takayanagi
(Writer, Director, Planner, Haiku poet)
With a grandfather who was in politics and a father who was a priest, Keita quickly learned the power of language and began writing haiku poems. Under his motto of “turn everything into a story,” he currently works as a producer, director, and planner on projects that cross all media platforms.
Recently, he has shifted his focus on food and its ability to benefit society behind the “one bite can change the world” catchphrase.
He participated in New York’s FoodFilmFestival with a work titled “Sushi Origin” that portrays the proper way to eat sushi. He won the award for best director in 2019.
Hiroshi Ishikawa
(photographer, director)
Born in Tokyo, 1968, Hiro Ishikawa started to learn painting when he was very small. After graduating from Tokyo Zokei University with a painting major, Ishikawa began his focus on photography. While being active in food and cosmetics-centered world of commercial photography, Ishikawa never ceased to challenge the possibilities in combining commercial photographic techniques with artistic, painting-like expressions.
He is always strongly motivated to capture the momentary conditions – neither Light nor Darkness; Movement nor Stillness; Life nor Death – in his works, sometimes by blending the two extremes and sometimes by altering the time gap in between the extremes. “When these contradicting opposites blend together, beauty and feeling of strangeness emerge and radiate these captured moments,” states Ishikawa.
Keita Takayanagi
(Writer, Director, Planner, Haiku poet)
With a grandfather who was in politics and a father who was a priest, Keita quickly learned the power of language and began writing haiku poems. Under his motto of “turn everything into a story,” he currently works as a producer, director, and planner on projects that cross all media platforms.
Recently, he has shifted his focus on food and its ability to benefit society behind the “one bite can change the world” catchphrase.
He participated in New York’s FoodFilmFestival with a work titled “Sushi Origin” that portrays the proper way to eat sushi. He won the award for best director in 2019.
Hiroshi Ishikawa
(photographer, director)
Born in Tokyo, 1968, Hiro Ishikawa started to learn painting when he was very small. After graduating from Tokyo Zokei University with a painting major, Ishikawa began his focus on photography. While being active in food and cosmetics-centered world of commercial photography, Ishikawa never ceased to challenge the possibilities in combining commercial photographic techniques with artistic, painting-like expressions.
He is always strongly motivated to capture the momentary conditions – neither Light nor Darkness; Movement nor Stillness; Life nor Death – in his works, sometimes by blending the two extremes and sometimes by altering the time gap in between the extremes. “When these contradicting opposites blend together, beauty and feeling of strangeness emerge and radiate these captured moments,” states Ishikawa.