Higashikawa Prize Explained

The 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	Lucien Clergue	Kishin Shinoyama	Takanobu Hayashi	Tetsuya Sekiguchi
3	1987	Joel Meyerowitz	Ikkō Narahara	Michiko Kon
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		Takeo Shimizu
10	1994	Michel Campeau	Taku Aramasa	Mitsuhiko Imamori	Hiromi Nagakura
11	1995	Kim Soo-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	Ryoko Suzuki
22	2006^[2]	Ketaki Seth	Risaku Suzuki	Emi Anrakuji	Osamu Wataya
23	2007	Manit Sriwanichpoom	Kunié Sugiura	Masako Imaoka	Hiroyuki Yamada
24	2008	Klaus Mitteldorf	Asako Narahashi	Tomoko Sawada	Yūji Obata
25	2009^[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

Notes

1. http://photo-town.jp/en/pdf/successive-prizewinners.pdf List of prizewinners, 1985 - 2009
2. Web site: 2022-02-03. 開催年: 22nd – 第22回（2006年）. Higashikawa International Photo Festival.
3. http://town.higashikawa.hokkaido.jp/phototown/prize/2009.htm 2009 awards
4. http://fotofes09.exblog.jp/13317529/ 第26回写真の町東川賞受賞者発表
5. http://www.aomori-museum.jp/ja/blog/954.html 小島一郎が東川賞受賞!!
6. http://fotofes09.exblog.jp/16062386/ 第27回東川賞受賞作家展
7. http://photo-town.jp/en/pdf/press-release2012-en.pdf Press release
8. https://archive.today/20120716171404/http://photo-town.jp/en/higashikawa-prize/2012examination-comment/index.html Commentary
9. "Exhibition of the 29th Higashikawa Award Winners " Accessed 28 May 2013.

External links

• • Hiraki Osamu. "The 21st Higashikawa Prize" (2007)
• 2006 exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Archived by the Wayback Machine in 2006.