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
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^"開催年: 22nd – 第22回（2006年）". Higashikawa International Photo Festival. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
^2009 awards Archived 16 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese) Accessed 29 August 2010.
^第26回写真の町東川賞受賞者発表. Higashikawa Photo Festival. (in Japanese) Accessed 19 May 2012.
^小島一郎が東川賞受賞!! Aomori Museum of Art. (in Japanese) 20 May 2010. Accessed 19 May 2012.
^第27回東川賞受賞作家展. Higashikawa Photo Festival. (in Japanese) Accessed 19 May 2012.
^Press release Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (PDF) (in English) Accessed 19 May 2012.
^Commentary (in English) Accessed 19 May 2012.
^"Exhibition of the 29th Higashikawa Award Winners Archived 2013-06-09 at the Wayback Machine" (in English) Accessed 28 May 2013.
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