Asako Narahashi receives the Higashikawa Domestic Photographer Prize
by Ferdinand on September 5, 2008
This summer Asako Narahashi received the 24th Higashikawa Domestic Photographer Prize. The artist won the prize for her recent series “half awake and half asleep in the water”, which we will exhibit at our gallery from September 12.
Higashikawa is a small town in Hokkaido, located at the north end of Japan.
The photo festival has been organized for over twenty years since 1985 and it is an important festival for Japanese contemporary photography. The following photographers have been awarded with the Domestic Photographery Prize until now:
HIGASHIKAWA DOMESTIC PHOTOGRAPHER PRIZE
The 1st / 1985 SUDA Issei / TAHARA Keiichi
The 2nd / 1986 SHINOYAMA Kishin
The 3rd / 1987 NARAHARA Ikko
The 4th / 1988 UEDA Shoji
The 5th / 1989 WATABE Yukichi
The 6th / 1990 MURAI Osamu
The 7th / 1991 ARAKI Nobuyoshi
The 8th / 1992 HASHIGUCHI George
The 9th / 1993 TAKANASHI Yutaka
The 10th / 1994 ARAMASA Taku
The 11th / 1995 SUGIMOTO Hiroshi
The 12th / 1996 KAWADA Kikuji
The 13th / 1997 NOMACHI Kazuyoshi
The 14th / 1998 SUGA Hiroshi
The 15th / 1999 ISHIUCHI Miyako
The 16th / 2000 HATAKEYAMA Naoya
The 17th / 2001 HOSOE Eikoh
The 18th / 2002 MORIMURA Yasumasa
The 19th / 2003 SAITO Ryoichi
The 20th / 2004 NAKAGAWA Yukio
The 21st / 2005 KOYAMA Hotaro
The 22nd / 2006 SUZUKI Risaku
The 23rd / 2007 SUGIUWA Kunie
The 24th / 2008 NARAHASHI Asako
By the way, works by the winner of the 1st Higashikawa Domestic Photographer Prize, Issei Suda, were part of our summer exhibition Review / Preview – Japanese Photographs which just ended. And we are currently preparing the first solo exhibition since two decades of Suda Issei in the West for this autumn.
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