The has been awarded to photographers by the "Phototown" of Higashikawa

Higashikawa, Hokkaido

is a town located in Kamikawa District, Kamikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan.As of 2007, the town has an estimated population of 7,740 and a density of 31.39 persons per km²...

, Hokkaidō

Hokkaido

, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island; it is also the largest and northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectural-level subdivisions. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu, although the two islands are connected by the underwater railway Seikan Tunnel...

 (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

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

The is an art museum focused on photography. The museum was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is located in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo...

 in 2006.

No.	Year	Overseas Photographer Prize	Domestic Photographer Prize	New Photographer Prize	Special Prize
1	1985	Joel Sternfeld Joel Sternfeld Joel Sternfeld, , is a fine-art color photographer noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish color photography as a respected artistic medium. He has many works in the permanent collections of the MOMA in New York City and the Getty Center in Los...	Issei Suda Issei Suda is a Japanese photographer.Born in Tokyo in 1940, Suda graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in 1962. From 1967 to 1970 he worked as the cameraman of the theatrical group Tenjo Sajiki, under Shūji Terayama. He has worked as a freelance photographer since 1971. Suda is a professor at Osaka... , Keiichi Tahara Keiichi Tahara is a renowned Japanese photographer.-Life and career:Keiichi Tahara was born in Kyoto. He learnt photography technique at early age by having spent his childhood close to the grandfather, who was a professional photographer....	[none]	Yoshihiko Shiga
2	1986	Lucien Clergue Lucien Clergue -Biography:Lucien Clergue was born in Arles. From the age of 7, he learned to play the violin. Several years later, his teacher revealed to him that he had nothing more to teach him. From a family of shopkeepers, he could not pursue further studies in a conservatory. In 1949, he learned the...	Shinoyama Kishin	Takanobu Hayashi Takanobu Hayashi is a Japanese photographer.Hayashi was born in Dalian, China, in 1946, but his family then quickly moved to Japan, first to Beppu and then to Kyoto. He worked in a darkroom for a year after graduating from high school, and in 1965 moved to Tokyo, where he studied at the Tokyo College of Photography...	Tetsuya Sekiguchi
3	1987	Joel Meyerowitz Joel Meyerowitz Joel Meyerowitz is a street photographer who began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art...	Ikkō Narahara Ikko Narahara is a Japanese photographer. Born in Fukuoka, Narahara studied law at Chuo University and, influenced by statues of Buddha at Nara, art history at the graduate school of Waseda University ....	Michiko Kon Michiko Kon is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...	Kōji Kanbe
4	1988	Lewis Baltz Lewis Baltz Lewis Baltz is a visual artist and well known photographer who became an important figure in the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s....	Shōji Ueda Shoji Ueda Ueda was born on 27 March 1913 in Sakai , Tottori. His father was a manufacturer and seller of geta; Shōji was the only child who survived infancy...	Eiji Ina Eiji Ina -Books by Ina:*Yōroppa toire hakubutsushi . Tokyo: Inax, 1988. ISBN 4-915737-00-4. Tokyo: Inax, 1990. ISBN 4-8099-1004-0. Text by Hiroshi Unno and others.*Nihon toire hakubutsushi . Tokyo: Inax, 1990. ISBN 4-8099-1001-6. Text by Kaoru Agi and others....	Minoru Taketazu
5	1989	Shi Shaohua	Yūkichi Watabe	Jun Tsukida	Masahide Satō
6	1990	Graciela Iturbide Graciela Iturbide - Biography :Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico in 1942, the eldest of thirteen children. She then married the architect Manuel Rocha Díaz in 1962 and had three children over the next eight years. Iturbide's six year old daughter died in 1970; after this death she turned to photography...	Osamu Murai	Tokihiro Satō Tokihiro Sato Recognized for his playful interaction of light, Sato uses a large-format camera for exposures that last from one to three hours, while he moves through the space creating points of light or illuminated lines drawn with flashlights or flashes made by reflecting mirrors. The results are detailed...	Kazumi Kurigami Kazumi Kurigami is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
7	1991	Jan Saudek Jan Saudek Jan Saudek is a Czech art photographer.- Life :Saudek's father was a Jew and the family was therefore persecuted by Germans. Many of his family members died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Jan and his brother Karel were held in a children's concentration camp located...	Nobuyoshi Araki Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. He is also known by the nickname .-Life and career:Araki was born in Tokyo, studied photography during his college years and then went to work at the advertising agency Dentsu, where he met his future wife, the essayist Yōko Araki...	Takako Minoda	Gen'ichirō Kakegawa
8	1992	Olivo Barbieri Olivo Barbieri Olivo Barbieri is an Italian artist and photographer of urban environments.He is recognized for his innovative technique creating miniature still photography from actual landscapes by simulating shallow depth of field via the use of tilt-shift lens photography...	Jōji Hashiguchi Joji Hashiguchi is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...	Seiichi Furuya Seiichi Furuya is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...	Masahisa Fukase Masahisa Fukase , born 25 February 1934 in Hokkaidō, is a Japanese photographer.-Life:Among Fukase's early works was the "Kill the Pigs" concerning a slaughterhouse...
9	1993	William Yang	Yutaka Takanashi Yutaka Takanashi is a Japanese photographer who has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life, and is best known for his depiction of Tokyo.-Life and career:...	Kō Inose	Takeo Shimizu
10	1994	Michel Campeau	Taku Aramasa Taku Aramasa Born in Tokyo on 15 August 1936, Aramasa moved with his family to Manchukuo in 1940. In 1948 he moved to Sakata, Yamagata. He graduated from in 1960, and set up a design company in which he was an art director, but became a freelance in 1970. He worked as a fashion photographer in Paris from 1973...	Mitsuhiko Imamori Mitsuhiko Imamori is a renowned self-taught Japanese photographer. His work often involves insects but he is a naturalist at heart.-References:...	Hiromi Nagakura Hiromi Nagakura is a renowned Japanese photographer.In 2005 Nagakura's book Zabitto ikka, ie o tateru won the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award for a work of photography.-References:...
11	1995	Kim Su-nam	Hiroshi Sugimoto Hiroshi Sugimoto Hiroshi Sugimoto , born on February 23, 1948, is a Japanese photographer currently dividing his time between Tokyo, Japan and New York City, USA. His catalog is made up of a number of series, each having a distinct theme and similar attributes.-Life and works:Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in...	Masato Seto Masato Seto -Biography:Seto was born in Udon Thani, Thailand, to a Japanese father and a Vietnamese Thai mother. He moved to Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in 1961, and studied photography at Tōkyō Shashin Senmon Gakkō , graduating in 1973. After further study under Daidō Moriyama, Seto became an assistant to...	Tsuneo Hayashida
12	1996	Gundula Schulze el Dowy	Kikuji Kawada Kikuji Kawada is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...	Taiji Matsue Taiji Matsue is a renowned Japanese photographer.-Awards:1996*Higashikawa Prize - New Photographer Prize 2002*The 27th Kimura Ihei Award, Asahi Shimbun Publishing Co.-References:...	Ikuo Nakamura Ikuo Nakamura -References:*Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. English language title; Japanese text....
13	1997	Calum Colvin	Kazuyoshi Machino	Osamu Kanemura Osamu Kanemura is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...	Ryōichi Satō
14	1998	Anthony Hernandez	Hiroshi Suga Hiroshi Suga Suga was born in Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, in 1945. He graduated in photography from Nihon University.He won the Domon Ken Award in 1987 for photographs of Bali and the Higashikawa Domestic Photographers Award in 1998 for photographs of Burma. He has been a professor at Nihon University.-Books by...	Takeshi Hosokawa	Shōjun Tsuyama
15	1999	Claudio Edinger Claudio Edinger Claudio Edinger is a Brazilian photographer born in Rio de Janeiro in 1952.-Biography:Edinger studied economics at Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Brazil. At the same time, in the beginning of the Seventies, he began taking photographs...	Miyako Ishiuchi Miyako Ishiuchi , is a renowned Japanese photographer.Ishiuchi has produced collections of photography since the late 1970s. Her first book was a study of Yokosuka, where she grew up....	Miwa Yanagi Miwa Yanagi is a Japanese photographic artist.-Life and works:Miwa Yanagi was born in 1967 Kobe City, Japan. She completed her postgraduate course work at the Kyoto City University of Arts . Miwa Yanagi is known mainly as a photographer and video artist. Miwa Yanagi creates an elaborate, thoroughly thought...	Kunihiko Takada
16	2000	Chema Madoz Chema Madoz Jose Maria Rodriguez Madoz better known as Chema Madoz, is a Spanish photographer, best known for his black and white surrealist photographs.Chema Madoz studied Art History at Universidad Complutense de Madrid between 1980 and 1983...	Naoya Hatakeyama Naoya Hatakeyama is a renowned Japanese photographer.Hatakeyama was born in Iwate, Japan in 1958. He graduated from the University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design in 1981 and completed postgraduate studies at the University of Tsukuba in 1984.-Books:...	Keiko Nomura	Masakatsu Kubota
17	2001	Andrejs Grants Andrejs Grants Andrejs Grants is a Latvian photographer and teacher. He studied at the Latvian State University , worked in the “Ogre” photo studio...	Eikoh Hosoe Eikoh Hosoe is a Japanese photographer and filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan. He is known for his psychologically charged images, often exploring subjects such as death, erotic obsession, and irrationality...	Yuki Onodera Yuki Onodera is a renowned Japanese photographer. She graduated from the Kuwazawa Design School in Tokyo. Now she lives in France.-Awards:* 2001, New Photographer Higashikawa Prize* 2002, Kimura Ihei Award* 2006, Prix Niépce- Publications :...	Kazuemon Hidano
18	2002	Edwin Zwakman Edwin Zwakman Edwin Zwakman is a visual artist from the Netherlands whose works explore the interaction between reality and photography. He does this with staged photography, either in his studio or in public space. Works in the studio include a long running series of pictures showing scale models of Dutch...	Yasumasa Morimura Yasumasa Morimura Yasumasa Morimura is a Japanese appropriation artist. He was born in Osaka and graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1978...	Kōji Onaka	Kensuke Kazama Kensuke Kazama is a Japanese photographer who for many years lived in and photographed the one-time mining town of Yūbari, Hokkaidō.Born in Mie Prefecture, Kazama moved to Tokyo in 1978. He held exhibitions in Tokyo two years later...
19	2003	Guy Tillim Guy Tillim Guy Tillim is a South African photographer known for his black and white and later digital work, mainly of third world Africa and often of war- and trouble-stricken areas....	Ryōichi Saitō	Kimio Itozaki	Ruiko Yoshida Ruiko Yoshida is a renowned female Japanese photographer.-References:*Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese....
20	2004	Antoine d'Agata Antoine D'Agata Antoine D'Agata is a French photographer born in Marseille in 1961. He left France in 1983 to start a series of travels. He studied photography at the International Center of Photography of New York in 1990, under the tutelage of Larry Clark and Nan Goldin....	Yukio Nakagawa	Akiko Tobu	Eiichi Kurasawa
21	2005	Kim Nyung-man	Hotarō Koyama	Kenji Kohiyama	Ryōko Suzuki
22	2006	Ketaki Seth	Risaku Suzuki	Emi Anrakuji	Osamu Wataya
23	2007	Manit Sriwanichpoom	Kunie Sugiura Kunie Sugiura is a renowned Japanese photographer. Her chosen medium is the photogram.Her first group exhibition was Vision and Expression, at the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York in 1969 and her first one-person exhibition was at the Warren Benedek Gallery in New York City in 1972.She received her...	Masako Imaoka	Hiroyuki Yamada
24	2008	Klaus Mitteldorf	Asako Narahashi	Tomoko Sawada	Yūji Obata
25	2009	Anne Ferran	Toshio Shibata Toshio Shibata is a Japanese photographer known for his large-format photographs of large-scale works of civil engineering in unpopulated landscapes.Shibata was born in Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a B.A. in 1972 and an M.F.A. in 1974 in which he concentrated primarily on painting...	Naoki Ishikawa	Keiji Tsuyuguchi

External links

• Hiraki Osamu. "The 21st Higashikawa Prize". Accessed 22 April 2007. Prize history 1985–2005. Accessed 22 April 2007. About the prize. Accessed 22 April 2007. Phototown Higashikawa. Accessed 22 April 2007. 2006 exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Accessed 22 April 2007.
• List of prizewinners. Accessed 29 August 2010.