This March both of the major Japan photo awards, the Domon Ken and Ihei Kimura Awards, were announced. The awards have slightly different focuses, with the Domon Ken prize usually going to older photographers with a large body of work already to their name, while the Ihei Kimura prize tends to reward photographers who show exceptionally bright promise. Yumi Himezaki took this year’s Domon Ken prize, while Masashi Sada picked up the 2008 Ihei Kimura Award.

(The Wikipedia entries for both awards (here and here) give the rundown on who in the past has been awarded (although both English pages have yet to be updated with the most recent winners). )

We have books by former and current prize winners in the bookstore, starting with the latest Ihei Kimura prize winner Masashi Asada for his work The Asadas, which is available in a paperback edition.

We also have books available for the following past award winners:

Shinya Fujiwara (Ihei Kimura, 1977)
Miyako Ishiuchi (Ihei Kimura, 1978)
Tsuneo Enari (Ihei Kimura, 1980 and Domon Ken, 1985)
Toshio Shibata (Ihei Kimura, 1991)
Mitsugu Onishi (Ihei Kimura, 1992)
Masato Seto (Ihei Kimura, 1995)
Naoya Hatakeyama (Ihei Kimura, 1996))
Kyoichi Tsuzuki (Ihei Kimura, 1997)
Issei Suda (Domon Ken, 1997)
Osamu Kanemura (Domon Ken, 2000)
Yurie Nagashima (Ihei Kimura, 2000)
Taiji Matsue (Ihei Kimura, 2001)
Tomoko Sawada (Ihei Kimura, 2003)
Hiroh Kikai (Domon Ken, 2004)
Hiromi Tsuchida (Domon Ken, 2008)