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[1] Joel Sternfeld Issei Suda,
Keiichi Tahara 		[none] Yoshihiko Shiga
2 1986[1] Lucien Clergue Kishin Shinoyama Takanobu Hayashi Tetsuya Sekiguchi
3 1987[1] Joel Meyerowitz Ikkō Narahara Michiko Kon Kōji Kanbe
4 1988[1] Lewis Baltz Shōji Ueda Eiji Ina Minoru Taketazu
5 1989[1] Shi Shaohua Yūkichi Watabe Jun Tsukida Masahide Satō
6 1990[1] Graciela Iturbide Osamu Murai Tokihiro Satō Kazumi Kurigami
7 1991[1] Jan Saudek Nobuyoshi Araki Takako Minoda Gen'ichirō Kakegawa
8 1992[1] Olivo Barbieri Jōji Hashiguchi Seiichi Furuya Masahisa Fukase
9 1993[1] William Yang Yutaka Takanashi Kō Inose Takeo Shimizu
10 1994[1] Michel Campeau Taku Aramasa Mitsuhiko Imamori Hiromi Nagakura
11 1995[1] Kim Soo-Nam Hiroshi Sugimoto Masato Seto Tsuneo Hayashida
12 1996[1] Gundula Schulze
el Dowy 		Kikuji Kawada Taiji Matsue Ikuo Nakamura
13 1997[1] Calum Colvin Kazuyoshi Machino Osamu Kanemura Ryōichi Satō
14 1998[1] Anthony Hernandez Hiroshi Suga Takeshi Hosokawa Shōjun Tsuyama
15 1999[1] Claudio Edinger Miyako Ishiuchi Miwa Yanagi Kunihiko Takada
16 2000[1] Chema Madoz Naoya Hatakeyama Keiko Nomura Masakatsu Kubota
17 2001[1] Andrejs Grants Eikoh Hosoe Yuki Onodera Kazuemon Hidano
18 2002[1] Edwin Zwakman Yasumasa Morimura Kōji Onaka Kensuke Kazama
19 2003[1] Guy Tillim Ryōichi Saitō Kimio Itozaki Ruiko Yoshida
20 2004[1] Antoine D'Agata Yukio Nakagawa Akiko Tobu Eiichi Kurasawa
21 2005[1] Kim Nyung-man Hotarō Koyama Kenji Kohiyama Ryoko Suzuki
22 2006[1][2] Ketaki Seth Risaku Suzuki Emi Anrakuji Osamu Wataya
23 2007[1] Manit Sriwanichpoom Kunié Sugiura Masako Imaoka Hiroyuki Yamada
24 2008[1] Klaus Mitteldorf Asako Narahashi Tomoko Sawada Yūji Obata
25 2009[1][3] 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[4] Chin-pao Chen Keizō Kitajima Osamu James Nakagawa Yoshihiro Hagiwara Ichirō Kojima[5]
27 2011[6] Peter Dressler Yuki Onodera Ken Kitano Minoru Okuda Shunji Dodo
28 2012[7][8] Arif Aşçı Taiji Matsue Lieko Shiga Makiko Ue Yoshikazu Minami
29 2013[9] Minstrel Kuik Ching Chieh Rinko Kawauchi Ari Hatsuzawa Takehiko Nakafuji Minoru Yamada
30 2014 Jorma Puranen Rika Noguči Gentaró Išizuka Kódži Sakai Tazuko Masujama
31 2015 Anne Noble Tokihiro Satō Maiko Haruki Kazutoši Jošimura Kikudžiró Fukušima
32 2016 Óscar Muñoz Taiši Hirokawa Jóko Ikeda Michael Kenna Jošimi Ikemoto
33 2017 Anna Orłowska Seiiči Motohaši Sakiko Nomura Acuši Okada Joširó Koseki
34 2018 Marian Penner Bancroft Tokuko Ušioda Erika Jošino Eidži Óhaši Keisó Tomioka
35 2019 Rosemary Laing Lieko Shiga Mari Katayama Atsushi Okuyama Junichi Ota
36 2020 Gregory Maiofis Yuri Nagashima Sayaka Ueara Kentaro Takahashi Hiroh Kikai
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y List of prizewinners, 1985–2009 Archived 14 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese) Accessed 19 May 2012.
  2. ^ "開催年: 22nd – 第22回（2006年）". Higashikawa International Photo Festival. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  3. ^ 2009 awards Archived 16 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese) Accessed 29 August 2010.
  4. ^ 第26回写真の町東川賞受賞者発表. Higashikawa Photo Festival. (in Japanese) Accessed 19 May 2012.
  5. ^ 小島一郎が東川賞受賞!! Aomori Museum of Art. (in Japanese) 20 May 2010. Accessed 19 May 2012.
  6. ^ 第27回東川賞受賞作家展. Higashikawa Photo Festival. (in Japanese) Accessed 19 May 2012.
  7. ^ Press release Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (PDF) (in English) Accessed 19 May 2012.
  8. ^ Commentary (in English) Accessed 19 May 2012.
  9. ^ "Exhibition of the 29th Higashikawa Award Winners Archived 2013-06-09 at the Wayback Machine" (in English) Accessed 28 May 2013.