Kimura Ihei Award

The Kimura Ihei Award (木村伊兵衛写真賞 Kimura Ihei Shashin-shō) is a Japanese photographic award that attracts the attention of the mass media and book-buyers.

The award has been given every year since 1975 (except 1983) by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of Asahi Shimbun and the magazine Asahi Camera, in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura. It is given to one or more new photographers whose work has been exhibited or published during the previous year and is announced in Asahi Camera: its original name, soon shortened, was Asahi Kamera Kimura Ihei Shashin-shō (アサヒカメラ木村伊兵衛写真賞).

The award is usually given to a single photographer. In 2000, the unprecedented awarding of three prizes, each to a female photographer, caused a stir.

Its major rival for attention in the mass media is the Domon Ken Award, given annually to a single photographer, usually one with a longer career than those who win the Kimura Award.

Winners

year photographer
1975 Kazuo Kitai
1976 Kōshichi Taira
1977 Shin'ya Fujiwara
1978 Miyako Ishiuchi
1979 Mitsuaki Iwagō
Seiji Kurata
1980 Tsuneo Enari
1981 Kanendo Watanabe
1982 Keizō Kitajima
1983 (no award)
1984 Keiichi Tahara
1985 Kazuyoshi Miyoshi
1986 Hisashi Wada
1987 Ikuo Nakamura
1988 Ryūji Miyamoto
1989 Hana Takeda
Michio Hoshino
1990 Michiko Kon
1991 Toshio Shibata
1992 Mitsugu Ōnishi
Norio Kobayashi
1993 Yasuhisa Toyohara
1994 Mitsuhiko Imamori
1995 Masato Seto
1996 Naoya Hatakeyama
1997 Kyōichi Tsuzuki
1998 Takashi Homma
1999 Risaku Suzuki
2000 Yurie Nagashima
Hiromix
Mika Ninagawa
2001 Taiji Matsue
Rinko Kawauchi
2002 Yuki Onodera
Masafumi Sanai
2003 Tomoko Sawada
2004 Masataka Nakano
2005 Ryūdai Takano
2006 Naoki Honjō
Kayo Ume
2007 Atsushi Okada
Rieko Shiga
2008 Masashi Asada
2009 Cozue Takagi
2010 Eiko Shimozono[1]
2011 Masaru Tatsuki[2]
2012 Arata Dodo (for the book Taigan)
Tomoko Kikuchi (for the exhibition I and I)[3]
2013 Eiki Mori (for the book intimacy)
2014 Ryūichi Ishikawa (for the books Zekkei no Polyphony and okinawan portraits 2010-2012)
Kotori Kawashima (for the book Myōjō)

Notes

  1. Page about this award, Asahi Shinbunsha. Accessed 25 February 2012.
  2. Page about this award, Asahi Shinbunsha. Accessed 25 February 2012.
  3. 菊地智子さんと百々新さんに木村伊兵衛賞, Sankei Shinbun, 14 February 2013. Accessed 19 March 2013.

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