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	[none]	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^[1]	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^[2]	Anne Ferran	Toshio Shibata	Naoki Ishikawa	Keiji Tsuyuguchi

Notes

^ 2006 prizewinners. Accessed 22 April 2007.
^ 2009 awards (Japanese) Accessed 2010-08-29.

External links

Hiraki Osamu. "The 21st Higashikawa Prize". Accessed 22 April 2007.
(Japanese) Prize history 1985–2005. Accessed 22 April 2007.
(Japanese) About the prize. Accessed 22 April 2007.
(Japanese) Phototown Higashikawa. Accessed 22 April 2007.
(Japanese) 2006 exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Accessed 22 April 2007.
List of prizewinners. Accessed 29 August 2010.
"The Higashikawa Award". http://town.higashikawa.hokkaido.jp/phototown/prize_e/history.htm#01. Retrieved 2011-01-20.