Domon Ken Award

Awards
  year photographer
1 1982 Tadao Mitome
2 1983 Masatoshi Naitō
3 1984 Kazuyoshi Nomachi
4 1985 Tsuneo Enari
5 1986 Taku Aramasa
6 1987 Hiroshi Suga
7 1988 Takeshi Nishikawa
8 1989 Ichirō Tsuda
9 1990 Manabu Miyazaki
10 1991 Bishin Jumonji
11 1992 Kōichi Imaeda
12 1993 Hiromi Nagakura
13 1994 Yoshikazu Minami
14 1995 Kiyoshi Sumiyoshi
15 1996 Katsumi Sunamori
16 1997 Issei Suda
17 1998 Seiichi Motohashi
18 1999 Takeshi Mizukoshi
19 2000 Osamu Kanemura
20 2001 Yoshino Ōishi
21 2002 Toshiya Momose
22 2003 Ryūichi Hirokawa
23 2004 Hiroh Kikai
24 2005 Eiichirō Sakata
25 2006 Hideaki Uchiyama
26 2007 Ikuo Nakamura
27 2008 Hiromi Tsuchida
28 2009 Mitsuhiko Imamori[1]
29 2010 Ryūichirō Suzuki[2][3]
30 2011 Naoki Ishikawa[4]
31 2012 Yutaka Takanashi[5]

The Domon Ken Award (土門拳賞, Domon-Ken-shō) is one of Japan's most celebrated photographic awards.

The award was started in 1981 by the Mainichi Newspapers to mark the 110th birthday of the Mainichi Shimbun, its daily newspaper and main publication, in honor of the photographer Ken Domon. It has been awarded every year since 1982.

The Domon Ken Award is given to a single established photographer for a published book of documentary photographs. Together with sample photographs, an announcement is made in Sunday Mainichi (and previously in Camera Mainichi as well). Award-winning works are shown in the Ginza Nikon Salon and the Domon Ken Photography Museum.

The major rival to this award for attention in the mass media is the Kimura Ihei Award, given annually to one or more newcomers.


Notes

  1. ↑ 写真展：今森光彦さん、希少な昆虫を４０カ国で撮影「生物多様性知って」 ／京都, Mainichi Shinbun, 17 August 2008. (Japanese) Accessed 2010-08-29.
  2. ↑ 土門拳賞に鈴木龍一郎さん, Sankei News, 18 March 2010. (Japanese) Accessed 2010-08-29.
  3. ↑ Notice for an exhibition at the Ginza Nikon Salon for Suzuki as the Domon prize winner. Within exhibition notices for May 2010, Nikon. Accessed 19 March 2013.
  4. ↑ Notice for an exhibition at the Ginza Nikon Salon for Ishikawa as the Domon prize winner. Within exhibition notices for May 2011, Nikon. Accessed 19 March 2013.
  5. ↑ Notice for an exhibition at the Ginza Nikon Salon for Takanashi as the Domon prize winner. Within exhibition notices for May 2012, Nikon. Accessed 19 March 2013.

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