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 PhotographerPrize Domestic PhotographerPrize NewPhotographerPrize SpecialPrize 1 1985List of prizewinners, 1985–2009 Accessed 19 May 2012. 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 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 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 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 20092009 awards Accessed 29 August 2010. Anne Ferran Toshio Shibata Naoki Ishikawa Keiji Tsuyuguchi
No. Year Overseas PhotographerAward Domestic PhotographerAward NewPhotographerAward SpecialAward Hidano KazuemonAward 26 2010第26回写真の町東川賞受賞者発表. Higashikawa Photo Festival. Accessed 19 May 2012. Chin-pao Chen Keizō Kitajima Osamu James Nakagawa Yoshihiro Hagiwara Ichirō Kojima小島一郎が東川賞受賞!! Aomori Museum of Art. 20 May 2010. Accessed 19 May 2012. 27 2011第27回東川賞受賞作家展. Higashikawa Photo Festival. Accessed 19 May 2012. Peter Dressler Yuki Onodera Ken Kitano Minoru Okuda Shunji Dodo 28 2012Press release (PDF) Accessed 19 May 2012. Accessed 19 May 2012. Arif Aşçı Taiji Matsue Lieko Shiga Makiko Ue Yoshikazu Minami 29 2013"Exhibition of the 29th Higashikawa Award Winners " Accessed 28 May 2013. 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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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.