The Society of Photography Award (「写真の会」賞, Shashin no Kai shō) is an award presented annually since 1989 by the (Tokyo-based) Society of Photography (写真の会, Shashin no Kai) for outstanding work in photography.
Recipients of the award are not limited to photographers but instead include people, organizations and companies who have helped photography. In many years more than one award is presented.
Winners
1989: Hiroshi Ōshima, Kiyoshi Suzuki, Michio Nakagawa 1990: Seiichi Furuya, Takuma Nakahira, Nobuyoshi Araki 1991: Yutaka Takanashi, Kurō Doi 1992: Nobuyoshi Araki, Isao Hirachi, Kōji Onaka 1993: Hiroh Kikai, Jōtarō Shōji, Kazuhiko Ishii 1994: Yutaka Senoo 1995: Kiyoshi Tanno, Seiichi Motohashi, Itsurō Naraki 1996: Masato Seto, Toppan Printing and others 1997: Kazuhiko Motomura (editor) 1999: Miyako Ishiuchi, Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Kōsai Hori, Ryūji Miyamoto, Masao Mochizuki 2000: Yutaka Kanase, Jun'ichi Ōta, Keiko Harada (editor), Masafumi Sanai 2001: Rika Noguchi, Masaki Hirano 2002: Yoshihiko Seki, Photographers' Gallery, Mariko Terashima 2003: Miyako Ishiuchi, Katsuhito Nakazato 2004: Asako Narahashi, Ken Kitano 2005: Akihiko Hirashima and others 2006: Kensuke Kazama, Yōko Matsui 2007: Seiichi Furuya 2008: Tomoyuki Sakaguchi, Noboru Hama 2009: Daidō Moriyama, Ichirō Kojima (posthumous) 2010: Shūji Mizobe 2011: Shunji Dodo, Man Fujita 2012: Yoshiichi Hara, IZU Photo Museum 2013: Taiji Matsue, Jun Abe 2014: Kyoko Uchida, Kei Ono 2015: Go Itami, Phot street 2016: Keijiro Kai, Daisuke Yokota"Prize of 'Society of Photography'", Society of Photography. Accessed 12 August 2016.
Sources Society of Photography. Awards 1989–98. Society of Photography. Awards 1999–2007 Society of Photography. Awards 2008–2009
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