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.
Winners
*1989:
Hiroshi Ōshima
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Kiyoshi Suzuki
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Seiichi Furuya
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Nobuyoshi Araki
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Yutaka Takanashi
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Nobuyoshi Araki
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Hiroh Kikai
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Seiichi Motohashi
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Masato Seto
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Miyako Ishiuchi
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Kōsai Hori
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Yutaka Kanase
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Jun'ichi Ōta
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Masafumi Sanai
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Rika Noguchi
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Photographers' Gallery
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Miyako Ishiuchi
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In 2005, she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale. In March 2014, she became the third Japanese photographer, following Hiroshi Hamaya and Hiroshi Sugimoto, to received the Hasselblad Foundation International Aw ...
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Katsuhito Nakazato
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Nakazato was born in Taki, Mie Prefecture, Japan. When young he enjoyed painting, and he joined a painting club in Hosei Univer ...
Kensuke Kazama
was a Japanese photographer who 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. In 1987 he moved to Nanporo in Hokkaidō, and two ...
Seiichi Furuya
in Izu, Shizuoka is a Japanese photographer
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Daidō Moriyama
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Ichirō Kojima
was a renowned Japanese photographer
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Jun Abe
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