Society of Photography Award
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Awards
  year photographer
1 1989 Hiroshi Ōshima, Kiyoshi Suzuki
Kiyoshi Suzuki
-Solo exhibitions:*"Burāman no hikari" / "India". 1969.*"Tenmaku no machi" / "Mind Games". Ginza Nikon Salon , 1980.. 1983.*"Gyōkan no nagame Gypsy wind Watakushi no 12-satsu" . 1984.. 1985.. 1985.. 1987.*"Nagare no uta" / "Sunday Picture". 1989....

, Michio Nakagawa
2 1990 Seiichi Furuya
Seiichi Furuya
is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...

, Takuma Nakahira, 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...

3 1991 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:...

, Kurō Doi
4 1992 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...

, Isao Hirachi, Kōji Onaka
5 1993 Hiroh Kikai
Hiroh Kikai
is a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for three series of monochrome photographs: scenes of buildings in and close to Tokyo, portraits of people in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, and rural and town life in India...

, Jōtarō Shōji, Kazuhiko Ishii
6 1994 Yutaka Senoo
7 1995 Kiyoshi Tanno, Seiichi Motohashi
Seiichi Motohashi
is a renowned 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....

, Itsurō Naraki
8 1996 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...

, Toppan Printing and others
9 1997 Kazuhiko Motomura (editor)
10 1998 Hachirō Hamada, Toshio Sakai, Yukari Mutō
11 1999 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....

, Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Kōsai Hori,
Ryūji Miyamoto
Ryuji Miyamoto
is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...

, Masao Mochizuki
12 2000 Yutaka Kanase, Jun'ichi Ōta, Keiko Harada (editor),
Masafumi Sanai
13 2001 Rika Noguchi
Rika Noguchi
Rika Noguchi is a Japanese photographic artist who lives and works in Berlin.Noguchi's work often deals with the limits of human ability and ambition. Her series "New Land" documented the construction of artificial islands off the coast of the Netherlands...

, Masaki Hirano
14 2002 Yoshihiko Seki, Photographers' Gallery,
Mariko Terashima
15 2003 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....

, Katsuhito Nakazato
Katsuhito Nakazato
is a Japanese photographer of the man-made environment, particularly sheds, alleys and night scenes.-Life and career:Nakazato was born in Taki, Mie Prefecture, Japan. When young he enjoyed painting, and he joined a painting club in Hosei University , from which he graduated in Geography...

16 2004 Asako Narahashi, Ken Kitano
17 2005 Akihiko Hirashima and others
18 2006 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...

, Yōko Matsui
19 2007 Seiichi Furuya
Seiichi Furuya
is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...

20 2008 Daidō Moriyama
Daido Moriyama
is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan.- Life and career :Born in Ikeda, Osaka, Daidō Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe...

, Ichirō Kojima
Ichiro Kojima
was a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...

 (posthumous)
21 2009 Shūji Mizobe

The Society of Photography Award (「写真の会」賞, Shashin no Kai shō) is an award presented annually since 1989 by the (Tokyo
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-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.

Sources and further reading

Society of Photography. Awards 1989–98. Society of Photography. Awards 1999–2007 Society of Photography. Awards 2008–2009
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