Higashikawa Prize

The Higashikawa Prize (東川賞, Higashikawa-shõ?) has been awarded to photographers by the "Phototown" of Higashikawa, Hokkaidō (Japan) since 1985. The Overseas and Domestic Photographer prizes are of 500,000 yen and the New Photographer and Special prizes are of 300,000 yen.

The work of twenty years' winners of the Overseas Photographer Prize was exhibited in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2006.

No. Year Overseas
Photographer
Prize
Domestic
Photographer
Prize
New
Photographer
Prize
Special
Prize
1 1985 Joel Sternfeld Issei Suda,
Keiichi Tahara
Yoshihiko Shiga
2 1986 Lucien Clergue Shinoyama Kishin Takanobu Hayashi Tetsuya Sekiguchi
3 1987 Joel Meyerowitz Ikkō Narahara Michiko Kon Kōji Kanbe
4 1988 Lewis Baltz Shōji Ueda Eiji Ina Minoru Taketazu
5 1989 Shi Shaohua Yūkichi Watabe Jun Tsukida Masahide Satō
6 1990 Graciela Iturbide Osamu Murai Tokihiro Satō Kazumi Kurigami
7 1991 Jan Saudek Nobuyoshi Araki Takako Minoda Gen'ichirō Kakegawa
8 1992 Olivo Barbieri Jōji Hashiguchi Seiichi Furuya Masahisa Fukase
9 1993 William Yang Yutaka Takanashi Kō Inose Takeo Shimizu
10 1994 Michel Campeau Taku Aramasa Mitsuhiko Imamori Hiromi Nagakura
11 1995 Kim Su-nam Hiroshi Sugimoto Masato Seto Tsuneo Hayashida
12 1996 Gundula Schulze
el Dowy
Kikuji Kawada Taiji Matsue Ikuo Nakamura
13 1997 Calum Colvin Kazuyoshi Machino Osamu Kanemura Ryōichi Satō
14 1998 Anthony Hernandez Hiroshi Suga Takeshi Hosokawa Shōjun Tsuyama
15 1999 Claudio Edinger Miyako Ishiuchi Miwa Yanagi Kunihiko Takada
16 2000 Chema Madoz Naoya Hatakeyama Keiko Nomura Masakatsu Kubota
17 2001 Andrejs Grants Eikoh Hosoe Yuki Onodera Kazuemon Hidano
18 2002 Edwin Zwakman Yasumasa Morimura Kōji Onaka Kensuke Kazama
19 2003 Guy Tillim Ryōichi Saitō Kimio Itozaki Ruiko Yoshida
20 2004 Antoine d'Agata Yukio Nakagawa Akiko Tobu Eiichi Kurasawa
21 2005 Kim Nyung-man Hotarō Koyama Kenji Kohiyama Ryōko Suzuki
22 2006 Ketaki Seth Risaku Suzuki Emi Anrakuji Osamu Wataya
23 2007 Manit Sriwanichpoom Kunie Sugiura Masako Imaoka Hiroyuki Yamada
24 2008 Klaus Mitteldorf Asako Narahashi Tomoko Sawada Yūji Obata
25 2009 Anne Ferran Toshio Shibata Naoki Ishikawa Keiji Tsuyuguchi
No. Year Overseas
Photographer
Award
Domestic
Photographer
Award
New
Photographer
Award
Special
Award
Hidano Kazuemon
Award
26 2010 Chin-pao Chen Keizō Kitajima Osamu James Nakagawa Yoshihiro Hagiwara Ichirō Kojima
27 2011 Peter Dressler Yuki Onodera Ken Kitano Minoru Okuda Shunji Dodo
28 2012 Arif Aşçı Taiji Matsue Lieko Shiga Makiko Ue Yoshikazu Minami

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