Born in Tokyo in 1977, Gentaro Ishizuka photographs with an 8 x 10 or other large-format camera and has recently focused on polar landscapes with motifs such as glaciers, pipelines and traces of the gold rush. Ishizuka received the Photographic Society of Japan’s Newcomer’s Award in 2004, and a fellowship for overseas study from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2011. His book Pipeline Iceland / Alaska (2013) was honored with the Higashikawa New Photographer Award in 2014.