List of winners and nominees for the Kimura Ihei Photography Award

Kimura Ihei Photography Award

Organized by: Asahi Shimbun Company, Asahi Shimbun Publications Target: Works released between January and December of each year, regardless of whether they are professional or amateur.
Gift: Award certificate, medal, and 1 million yen prize announced: Every year in March Published in the Asahi Shimbun, the magazine " AERA " and the Asahi Shimbun Publications-operated news site " AERA dot. "
 Exhibition/preservation: Exhibited at Sony Imaging Gallery (Tokyo)

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List of Kimura Ihei Photography Award Winners

  • 1st (1975)
    • Winner: Kazuo Kitai
    • Award-winning work: "To the Village" (serialized in Asahi Camera)
    • Selection committee: Nobuo Ina, Hiroyuki Itsuki (author), Kishin Shinoyama, Tsutomu Watanabe, Akira Okami
    • Candidates:
      • Kon Sasaki "Small Life"
      • Matsue Nakafuji "Pure Land"
      • Isao Hirachi "Hot Spring Geisha"
      • Naoya Mabuchi "The Fall of Phnom Penh" "20 Days in Phnom Penh"
      • Nagoya Film Festival 75 Executive Committee

  • 2nd (1976)
    • Winner: Koichi Taira
    • Award-winning work: "Painukaji" (photo book)
    • Selection Committee: Nobuo Ina, Seiji Otsuji, Shotaro Yasuoka, Tsutomu Watanabe, Akira Okami
    • Candidates:
      • Hideyuki Otani "Warning to Humanity"
      • Sano Seiko "Closed Mine Diary"
      • Hiromi Tsuchida "Zokushin"
      • Shuji Yamada "Station Square," "Town Square," "Umeda Area"

  • 3rd (1977)
    • Winner: Shinya Fujiwara
    • Award-winning works: "Wanderings in Tibet", "Wandering in Tibet", "Seven-Colored Dreams" (serialized in Asahi Graph)
    • Selection Committee: Nobuo Ina, Nagisa Oshima, Yutaka Takanashi, Tsutomu Watanabe, Teruo Okai
    • Candidates:
      • Kosaburo Inoue "Chichibu Weaving Song"
      • Shigeo Gocho "SELF AND OTHERS"
      • Yuji Saika "From the Closed Mine and Gunkanjima" "Christians"
      • Terutaka Hashimoto "Stone Town" "Grassy Village"
      • Michio Washio "Kotobukicho Elegy"
      • Fumihiro Ishikawa "The Vietnam War of Liberation"

  • 4th (1978)
    • Winner: Miyako Ishiuchi
    • Award-winning works: "APARTMENT" (photo book), "Apartment" (photo exhibition)
    • Selection committee: Kuwahara, K., Yoshiyuki, J., Watanabe, T., Okai, T.
    • Candidates:
      • Takahashi Takashi "Opa!"
      • Keiichi Tahara "Window"
      • Kazuyoshi Nomachi "Sahara"
      • Koichi Hashimoto "The Village Calling for Spring"
      • Wakui Yutaka "Clouds in the Incubator"

  • 5th (1979)
    • Winners:
    • Selection committee: Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kenzaburo Oe, Koen Shigemori, Yoshio Watanabe, Teruo Okai
    • Candidates:
      • Shimada Tadashi "Kingfisher Flying in the Clear Stream"
      • "The Money Tree" by Yoshinobu Jumonji
      • Hiromi Tsuchida "Hiroshima Monument"
      • Ichiro Yanagisawa "Cypress Tree Facing the Wind"
      • Shuji Yamada "Japanese Village 1969-79"

  • 6th (1980)
    • Award recipient: Tsuneo Enari
    • Winner: "America's Bride" (Asahi Camera serialization, photo books, photo exhibitions)
    • Selection Committee: Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Hisashi Inoue, Koen Shigemori, Yoshio Watanabe, Teruo Okai
    • Candidates:
      • Ryoji Akiyama "New York Report"
      • Seiichi Motohashi "Circus Time"
      • Keizo Kitajima "Photographic Express Tokyo"
      • Masato Sakano "Talking About Fussa"
      • Amano Akira "Rare Animals of Mount Daisetsu"
      • Hiroji Kubota "The Flow of the Great River: The Culture and People of China"
      • Nobuyoshi Araki "Fake Reportage"

  • 7th (1981)
    • Winner: Kanehito Watanabe
    • Award-winning work: "The City of Deja Vu" (photo exhibition)
    • Selection committee: Abe Kobo, Ishimoto Yasuhiro, Shigemori Koen, Watanabe Yoshio, Okai Teruo
    • Candidates:
      • Yoshino Ohno "The Undisclosed People" "Papuans"
      • Keizo Kitajima "SnapShot", "New York", "Photo Express Okinawa", "New York Danger Zone"
      • Michio Washio "Faces, etc."

  • 8th (1982)
    • Winner: Keizo Kitajima
    • Winner: "New York" (photo book)
    • Selection committee: Abe Kobo, Ishimoto Yasuhiro, Shigemori Koen, Watanabe Yoshio, Tani Hiroshi
    • Candidates:
      • Hiroshi Yamazaki "10POINTS・HELIOGRAPHY", "HELIOGRAPHY Day and year", "Hiroshi Yamazaki Photo Exhibition 72-82"
      • Akihide Tamura "The Road" "The World of Akihide Tamura"
      • Kazumasa Suda "Modern Tokyo Picture Book" and "Monokusa Kyui"

  • 9th (1983)
    • Winner: No winner
    • Selection committee: Abe Kobo (author), Ishimoto Yasuhiro, Shigemori Koen, Watanabe Yoshio, Aizawa Keizo
    • Candidates:
      • Kazumasa Suda "Kanto Futan"
      • "Demilitarized Zone" by Fuminari Kuwahara
      • Hidetaka “Paris Myth”
      • "Bahar" by Kazuyoshi Nomachi
      • Yoshino Oishi "The Crocodile People"
      • Yoshishi Suga "The Underworld, the Heavenly World, the Mysterious World, Paris"
      • Keiichi Tahara "Homo Locuwens"
      • Suzuki Kiyoshi "The Fool on the Street"
      • Hiroshi Yamazaki “HELIOGRAPHY”
      • Akihide Tamura “TAMURA PHOTOGRAPHS”
      • Seiichi Motohashi "Interlude at Ueno Station"

  • 10th (1984)
    • Winner: Keiichi Tahara
    • Winning work: " TAHARA KEIICHI 1973-1983 " (photo book)
    • Selection Committee: Shunji Okura, Seiji Ootsuji, Kon Sasaki, Yoshio Watanabe, Keizo Aizawa
    • Candidates:
      • Nobuyoshi Araki "Autumn in Tokyo"
      • Tatsuro Kotaki "Paris Street Performer"
      • Ichiro Tsuda "Dark Zone - North"
      • Hisashi Wada "Common People of Paris", "Days in Paris, II", "Travels in France"


  • 11th (1985)
    • Award recipient: Kazuyoshi Miyoshi
    • Award-winning works: "RAKUEN" (photo book), "Planet" (featured in Asahi Camera)
    • Selection Committee: Shunji Okura, Seiji Otsuji, Kon Sasaki, Yoshio Watanabe, Yuzo Fujita
    • Candidates:
      • Taku Shinsho "Distant Homeland"
      • Toshinobu Takeuchi “Heaven, Earth, and Voice”
      • Nobuo Nakamura "Eyes of Harlem"
      • Sanjiro Minamikawa "The Mystery Writer's Idea Workshop"

  • 12th (1986)
    • Winner: Hisashi Wada
    • Award-winning work: "American Houses - Their Culture and Traditions" (photo book)
    • Selection Committee: Shunji Okura, Seiji Otsuji, Kon Sasaki, Yoshio Watanabe, Yuzo Fujita
    • Candidates:
      • Hajime Ichihara "The Sea of ​​Whales, the Sea of ​​Men"
      • Norio Kobayashi "Landscape"
      • Jun Takano "The Face of the Andes"
      • Isao Hirachi "A Year at the End of the Century"

  • 13th (1987)
    • Award winner: Yukio Nakamura
    • Award-winning works: "All of Tokyo Bay" and "Undersea Face Exhibition" (photo books)
    • Selection Committee: Shunji Okura, Seiji Otsuji, Kon Sasaki, Yoshio Watanabe, Yuzo Fujita
    • Candidates:
      • Junichi Ota "Women of Ikaino"
      • Mitsugu Onishi "Distant Summer" "News from Edogawa"
      • Takeda Hana "Cat: A Place in the Sun"

  • 14th (1988)
    • Winner: Ryuji Miyamoto
    • Award-winning works: " Architectural Apocalypse " and " Kowloon Walled City " (photo book, photo exhibition)
    • Selection Committee: Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kishin Shinoyama, Shigekazu Nagano, Yoshio Watanabe, Yasushi Sato
    • Candidates:
      • Michio Nakagawa "Shanghai Chronicles" and "Shanghai Story II"
      • George Hashiguchi "Map of the 17-Year-Old" and "Wind from the South"

  • 15th (1989)
    • Winners:
      • Hana Takeda " Sleepy Town " (photo exhibition) "Sleepy Town Continued" (serialized in Asahi Camera)
      • Michio Hoshino "Alaska: A Story Like the Wind" (serialized in the Asahi Weekly) "Alaska: 63 Degrees North" (photo exhibition)
    • Selection Committee: Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kishin Shinoyama, Shigekazu Nagano, Yoshio Watanabe, Yasushi Sato
    • Candidates:
      • Masato Seto "Bangkok, Hanoi, 1982-1987"
      • Kozo Miyoshi "Greenhouse"

  • 16th (1990)
    • Winner: Michiko Ima
    • Winning work: " EAT: Recent Works " (photo exhibition)
    • Selection Committee: Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kishin Shinoyama, Shigekazu Nagano, Yoshio Watanabe, Yasushi Sato
    • Candidates:
      • Hiromi Nagakura "Salvador"
      • Kozo Miyoshi "Roots [NE]"

  • 17th (1991)
    • Award recipient: Toshio Shibata
    • Award-winning work: " Typical Japan " (photo exhibition, featured in Asahi Camera)
    • Selection committee: Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kishin Shinoyama, Shigekazu Nagano, Yoshio Watanabe, Masami Fujisawa
    • Candidates:
      • Koichi Imaeda "Russian/Roulette"
      • Chihiro Minato “Equator”

  • 18th (1992)
    • Winners:
      • Mitsugu Onishi "Distant Summer" (published in Asahi Camera), "From the Periphery Town" (photo exhibition),
      • Norio Kobayashi " FIRST LIGHT " (photo book)
    • Selection committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Yutaka Takanashi, Shigekazu Nagano, Ikko Narahara, Masami Fujisawa
    • Candidates:
      • Fusako Kodama "Tokyo in a Thousand Years"
      • Hiroo Kikai "INDIA"

  • 19th (1993)
    • Winner: Yasuhisa Toyohara
    • Winning work: " Street " (photo book)
    • Selection committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Yutaka Takanashi, Shigekazu Nagano, Ikko Narahara, Masami Fujisawa
    • Candidates:
      • Tokihiro Sato "art scope'93"
      • Yasumasa Morimura "Dress Up Human No. 1"

  • 20th (1994)
    • Winner: Mitsuhiko Imamori
    • Award-winning works: "World Insect Chronicle" (photo book), "Satoyama Tales" (serialized in SINRA)
    • Selection committee: Yutaka Takanashi, Shigekazu Nagano, Ikko Narahara, Shinya Fujiwara, Yukio Yamazaki
    • Candidates:
      • Yuriko Takagi "nus intimes"
      • Yurie Nagashima "Room of Love"
      • Naoya Hatakeyama "LIME WORKS"
      • Taiji Matsue "HIERARCHY"


  • 21st (1995)
    • Winner: Masato Seto
    • Winning works: " Silent Mode " and " Living Room, Tokyo 1989-1994 " (photo exhibition)
    • Selection committee: Yutaka Takanashi, Shigekazu Nagano, Ikko Narahara, Shinya Fujiwara, Yukio Yamazaki
    • Candidates:
      • Osamu Kanemura "Today's Japan", "Tokyo Ginza Three Generations", "Crash Landing"
      • Dodo Shin's "Shanghai New Century Plan"
      • Naoya Hatakeyama "LIME WORKS" "LIME WORKS:BLASTING"
      • Taiji Matsue “objet disparu” “another reality”

  • 22nd (1996)
    • Winner: Naoya Hatakeyama
    • Award-winning works: "LIME WORKS" (photo book), "Urban Maquette" (photo exhibition)
    • Selection committee: Yutaka Takanashi, Shigekazu Nagano, Ikko Narahara, Shinya Fujiwara, Yukio Yamazaki
    • Candidates:
      • Koji Onaka "Distant Town"
      • Osamu Kanemura "Keihin Machine Soul"
      • Noriharu Kobayashi “DAYS ASIA”
      • Hiromi Hoshino “South China Experience”
      • Kazuma Momoi "End of the Century Earth Odyssey"

  • 23rd (1997)
    • Winner: Kyoichi Tsuzuki
    • Award-winning work: "ROADSIDE JAPAN/A Journey Through Japan" (photo book)
    • Selection committee: Yutaka Takanashi, Shigekazu Nagano, Ikko Narahara, Shinya Fujiwara, Yukio Yamazaki
    • Candidates:
      • Bon Ishikawa "Sailor"
      • Katsumi Omori “Very Special Love”
      • Niji Kasai “Tokyo Dance” “Dance Double”
      • Osamu Kanemura "Lost Landscapes"
      • Tokihiro Sato "Light - Breathing"
      • Masashi Sanai "Alive"
      • Asako Narahashi "NU・E"
      • Mika Ninagawa "walk3"
      • Sakiko Nomura "Naked Time"
      • Tsuyoshi Hosokawa "Forest Guide"
      • Takashi Honma "Hyper Ballad"
      • Toshiya Momose "EAST=WEST" "Hyper Real Tokyo"
      • Michio Yamauchi "HONG KONG"

  • 24th (1998)
    • Winner: Takashi Homma
    • Award-winning works: "TOKYO SUBURBIA" (photo book), "TOKYO SUBURBIA" (photo exhibition)
    • Selection committee: Yutaka Takanashi, Shigekazu Nagano, Ikko Narahara, Shinya Fujiwara, Hiroshi Hirose
    • Candidates:
      • Masaaki Imai "DEATHE ROW"
      • Hiroshi Ono “second-unit” “drive”
      • Yuki Onodera "Yuki ONODERA et Son Mouvement"
      • Yuji Obata "Invisible Border"
      • Osamu Kanemura “ALL THE NEEDLES ON ARE RED”
      • Yoshiaki Koga “Fugendake/OFF LIMITS”
      • Masashi Sanai: "I don't know"
      • Risaku Suzuki "KUMANO"
      • Yurie Nagashima “Family”
      • Maki Miyashita "Room and Underwear"
      • Mariko Mori "Media Logue - Contemporary Japanese Photography '98"

  • 25th (1999)
    • Award winner: Risaku Suzuki
    • Winning work: "PILES OF TIME" (photo book)
    • Selection committee: Yutaka Takanashi, Shigekazu Nagano, Ikko Narahara, Shinya Fujiwara, Hiroshi Hirose
    • Candidates:
      • Keiko Nomura "DEEP SOUTH"
      • Ohashi Jin "The continuation in front of me"
      • Arata Dodo "Shanghai Style"
      • Masashi Sanai "Tintin and" "Someone Other Than Me"
      • Yuki Onodera "Yuki Onodera Exhibition" "CVNI" "PVI"
      • Osamu Kanemura "The Mother of Contemporary Photography", "SOMEDAY OK PRINCE WILL COME", "BLACK PARACHUTE EARS"
      • Mika Ninagawa "BABYBLUESKY" "Isla Mujeres"
      • Yurie Nagashima "Lifestyle"
      • Rika Noguchi "Fujiyama"
      • Tamami Hitsuda “Red Rose & Real Bed”
      • Toshiya Momose "Grand Shanghai"
      • Yuko Shimada "HIGAN"
      • Hideki Sato "Philippine Boxer"

  • 26th (2000)
    • Winners:
      • Yurie Nagashima “PASTIME PARADISE” (Photobook)
      • Mika Ninagawa "Pink Rose Suite" "Sugar and Spice" (photo books)
      • HIROMIX "HIROMIX WORKS" (photo book)
    • Selection committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Yutaka Takanashi, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Shinya Fujiwara, Hiroshi Hirose
    • Candidates:
      • Masaki Nakano “TOKYO NOBODY”
      • Masayuki Yoshinaga: "I'm sorry"
      • Hiromi Hoshino "Hong Kong Flower"
      • Rika Noguchi "Watching Birds"
      • Hiroshi Ono “Land & Mine” “When Tomorrow Comes”
      • Koji Onaka “MATATABI”
      • Masashi Sanai "Female Student"
      • Taiji Matsue "TAIJI MATSUE"

  • 27th (2001)
    • Winners:
    • Selection committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Hiromi Tsuchida, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Shinya Fujiwara, Hiroshi Hirose
    • Candidates:
      • Koji Onaka “Tokyo Candy Box”
      • Masashi Sanai "Message" "My Car"
      • Rika Noguchi "Premonition"
      • Shingo Wakagi “Double Focus” “T” “young tree”

  • 28th (2002)
    • Winners:
      • Yuki Onodera " Camera Chimera " (photo book)
      • Masashi Sanai "MAP" (photo book)
    • Selection Committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Hiromi Tsuchida, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Shinya Fujiwara, Ippei Iwata
    • Candidates:
      • Shinro Ohtake "18"
      • Yoshiko Kanzo "Treasure"
      • Qin Ru Mei "Moon Dwelling"
      • Asako Narahashi “FUNICULI FUNICULA”
      • Rika Noguchi "Catching Water"

  • 29th (2003)
    • Winners: Tomoko Sawada "Costume" (photo exhibition) and others
    • Selection Committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Hiromi Tsuchida, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Shinya Fujiwara, Ippei Iwata
    • Candidates:
      • Eric "One Day and Eternity"
      • Atsushi Okada “Cord”
      • Gentaro Ishizuka "World Wild Warp"
      • Asako Narahashi "Half Awake and Half Asleep in the Water"
      • Masayuki Yoshinaga "Tribe"

  • 30th (2004)
    • Winner: Masataka Nakano
    • Award-winning work: " Tokyo Window View " (photo book)
    • Selection Committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Hiromi Tsuchida, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Shinya Fujiwara, Ippei Iwata
    • Candidates:
      • Shoin Kajii "NAMI"
      • Yasuhiko Uchihara "Shoot, shoot, don't think"
      • Aya Fujioka "Tell me goodbye"


  • 31st (2005)
    • Winner: Ryudai Takano
    • Winning work: " IN MY ROOM " (photo book)
    • Selection Committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Hiromi Tsuchida, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Shinya Fujiwara, Akihisa Okuda
    • Candidates:
      • Takashi Yasumura "Everydayness" "Takashi Yasumura Photo Exhibition"
      • Mikiko Hara “ hysteric Thirteen Hara Mikiko”
      • Shintaro Sato
      • Tomoaki Makino
      • Ohashi Jin

  • 32nd (2006)
    • Winners:
      • Naoki Honjo " Small Planet " (photo book)
      • Ume Kayo "Umeme" (photo album)
    • Selection Committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Hiromi Tsuchida, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Shinya Fujiwara, Akihisa Okuda
    • Candidates:
      • Masashi Asada
      • Emi Anrakuji
      • Katsumi Omori
      • Ken Eirei

  • 33rd (2007)
    • Winners:
      • Atsushi Okada "I am" (photo book)
      • Rieko Shiga " Lilly " "CANARY" (photo books)
    • Selection Committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Hiromi Tsuchida, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Shinya Fujiwara, Akihisa Okuda
    • Candidates:
      • Naoki Ishikawa
      • Yuji Obata
      • Hideto Kawaguchi
      • Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
      • Asako Narahashi
      • Jinichi Murakami
      • Miyuki Motoki

  • 34th (2008)
    • Winner: Masashi Asada
    • Award-winning work: " The Asada Family " (photo book)
    • Selection Committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Hiromi Tsuchida, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Shinya Fujiwara, Akihisa Okuda
    • Candidates:
      • Naoki Ishikawa
      • Eric

  • 35th (2009)
    • Winner: Kozue Takagi
    • Winning works: " MID " and "GROUND" (photo books)
    • Selection committee: Kishin Shinoyama, Hiromi Tsuchida, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Shinya Fujiwara
    • Candidates:
      • Naoki Ishikawa "ARCHIPERAGO"
      • Aya Fujioka "I don't sleep"
      • Shuji Mizobe “here and there”
      • Ken Kitano "Flow and Fusion: The Melting City"

  • 36th (2010)
    • Winner: Eiko Shimozono
    • Award-winning work: " Kizuna " (photo book, photo exhibition)
    • Selection Committee: Mitsuaki Iwago, Masato Seto, Ryudai Takano
    • Candidates:
      • Kajii Shoin
      • Kura Shinsumi
      • Tatsuya Shimodaira
      • Takayuki Maekawa
      • Osamu Wataya

  • 37th (2011)
    • Winner: Masaru Tatsuki
    • Award-winning work: " Tohoku " (photo book)
    • Selection Committee: Mitsuaki Iwago, Masato Seto, Ryudai Takano, Hiroshi Katsumata
    • Candidates:
      • Miyoko Ihara
      • Eric
      • Yasuaki Kagii
      • Kura Shinkumi
      • Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
      • Hiroaki Nakajima
      • Takayuki Maekawa
      • Mori Eiki
      • Erika Yoshino

  • 38th (2012)
    • Winners:
      • Tomoko Kikuchi "I and I" (photo exhibition)
      • Arata Dodo "The Other Side" (from the photo book and exhibition "Japanese Emerging Artists Vol. 11: Somewhere in This World and Me")
    • Selection Committee: Mitsuaki Iwago, Masato Seto, Ryudai Takano, Hiroshi Katsumata

  • 39th (2013)
    • Winner: Eiki Mori
    • Winning work: " Intimacy " (photo book)
    • Selection Committee: Mitsuaki Iwago, Masato Seto, Ryudai Takano, Yurie Nagashima, Hiroshi Katsumata
    • Candidates:
      • Takaaki Akaishi
      • Inbekaori★
      • Motoyuki Daifu
      • Takezawa Uruma
      • Daisuke Yokota

  • 40th (2014)
    • Winners:
      • Ryuichi Ishikawa "Polyphony of Spectacular Scenery" " Okinawan Portraits 2010-2012 " (photo collection)
      • Kotori Kawashima "Morning Star" (photo album)
    • Selection Committee: Mitsuaki Iwago, Masato Seto, Ryudai Takano, Yurie Nagashima, Hiroto Sasaki
    • Candidates:
      • Eric “Eye of the Vortex” “GOOD LUCK HONG KONG”
      • Kura Masumi "Men are Beautiful"
      • Yosuke Takeda "Stay Gold"
      • Noriko Hayashi "Kidnapping Bride in Kyrgyzstan"
      • Maiko Haruki "The Boundary of Photography" "Expansion of Seeing"
      • Norio Matsumoto "Journey to the Wilderness"


  • 41st (2015)
    • Winner: Taku Arai
    • Winning work: " MONUMENTS " (photo book)
    • Selection committee: Miyako Ishiuchi, Risaku Suzuki, Takashi Homma, Yurie Nagashima, Hiroto Sasaki
    • Candidates:
      • Kazuyoshi Usui
      • Yoshiyuki Okuyama
      • Emi Nakata
      • Shohei Nishino
      • Maiko Haruki
      • Yoshinori Mizutani
      • Daisuke Yokota

  • 42nd (2016)
    • Winner: Mikiko Hara
    • Winning work: "Change" (photo book)
    • Selection Committee: Miyako Ishiuchi, Risaku Suzuki, Takashi Homma, Hiroto Sasaki

  • 43rd (2017)
    • Winners:
      • Hiroko Komatsu "Personal Autonomous Processing", "The Wall, from Biological Hygiene Preservation, 2015" (photo exhibition),
      • Aya Fujioka "The River Flows" (photo book) "Ayako, a Metaphysical Study" (photo exhibition)
    • Selection Committee: Miyako Ishiuchi, Risaku Suzuki, Keiichiro Hirano, Takashi Homma
    • Candidates:
      • Mari Katayama "The Return" "Japanese Emerging Writers vol.14"
      • Keiko Sasaoka "SHORELINE"
      • Maiko Haruki "_etc."
      • Mayumi Hosokura "jubilee"

  • 44th (2018)
    • Winner: Ai Iwane "KIPUKA" (photo book) "FUKUSHIMA ONDO" (photo exhibition)
    • Selection Committee: Miyako Ishiuchi, Risaku Suzuki, Keiichiro Hirano, Takashi Homma
    • Candidates:
      • Shingo Kanagawa "A Long Time"
      • Yu Kawasaki "Scenes"
      • Keiji Tsuyukuchi "Place Names"
      • Hayahisa Tomiyasu “TTP”
      • Miyagi Futoshi "Photosensitive"

  • 45th (2019)
    • Winners:
      • Mari Katayama "GIFT" (photo book) "58th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition "May You Live in Interesting Times" (exhibition)
      • Daisuke Yokota "Sediment" (photo book) "The Second Stage at GG #50 Daisuke Yokota Exhibition "Room. Pt.1"" (photo exhibition)
    • Selection Committee: Miyako Ishiuchi, Risaku Suzuki, Keiichiro Hirano, Takashi Homma
    • Candidates:
      • Hiroshi Ikeda "AINU"
      • Harumichi Saito "Emotion," "Close-up Universe: Emerging Japanese Artists Vol. 16"
      • Kazuna Taguchi "Eurydice" "Eurydice's Eyes"

  • 46th (2020+2021)
    • Winners:
      • Yoshida Shiho "Surveying | Mountain" (photo book), "Surveying | Mountain" / Whale under the sand (photo exhibition), "Planning the margins" (photo exhibition), "Azamino Photo Annual: What remains visible" (photo exhibition), "Japanese emerging artists vol. 18" (photo exhibition)
    • Selection Committee: Mitsugu Onishi, Tomoko Sawada, Yurie Nagashima, Keiichiro Hirano
    • Candidates:
      • Gu Jianheng “A PART OF THERE IS HERE”
      • Sohei Nishino "The Shape of Water", "Tokaido", "Where do photographers come from and where are they heading? - Photographs that travel the world and transform the earth", "New Horizon"
      • Atsushi Fukushima "I deliver lunch boxes to the homes of elderly people who live alone" "Bento is Ready"
      • Ayaka Yamamoto "We are Made of Grass, Soil, Trees, and Flowers" "Japanese Emerging Artists vol. 18"

  • 47th (2022)
    • Winner: Itsuki Nitta "SAKHALIN" (photo book) "Sequel to Sakhalin" (photo exhibition)
    • Selection Committee: Mitsugu Onishi, Tomoko Sawada, Yurie Nagashima, Keiichiro Hirano
    • Candidates:
      • Wang Lu “Frozen are the Winds of Time”
      • Yuki Shimizu "Sleeping Glass", "Half Dreaming Glass", "Tokyo Dialogue 2022", "Summer Vacation at a Certain Museum"
      • Tamaki Yoshida "KYOTOGRAPHIE Negative Ecology"
      • Akito Yoshida "The Dialogue of Two"

  • 48th (2023)
    • Winners: Kim In-sook "Eye to Eye" (10-channel video installation) "Between Breads and Noodles" (an installation consisting of photography and 4-channel video)
    • Selection Committee: Mitsugu Onishi, Yurie Nagashima, Tomoko Sawada, Mitsuhiko Imamori
    • Candidates:
      • Yumiko Utsu's "Wunderkammer" "Wunderkammer Publication Commemorative Exhibition" "Atama Kimama Lucky" "Look Before You Jump: Emerging Japanese Artists Vol.20"
      • Shingo Kanagawa "A Long Time"
      • Hiroki Shimizu's "Kishi" "When you sleep, the tide comes", "The river of resurrection", "The sea sleeps in the basement"
      • Toshiki Nakanishi "Oputateshike" "Earth and Memory"
      • Toshiya Murakoshi "Crossing the Boundaries - Toshiya Murakoshi and Yuko Nemoto" "The Wind Sings for a Deeper Silence"

  • 49th (2024)
    • Winner: Shinichiro Nagasawa (photo book "Mary Had a Little Lamb")
    • Selection Committee: Mitsugu Onishi, Yurie Nagashima, Tomoko Sawada, Mitsuhiko Imamori
    • Candidates:
      • Sayaka Uehara
      • Shingo Kanagawa
      • Ayano Sudo
      • Toshiki Nakanishi
      • Shinichiro Nagasawa
      • Tamaki Yoshida

Source: Asahi Shimbun "Kimura Ihei Photography Award" official website
https://publications.asahi.com/feature/kimura_award/

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