Judges
Print Category
- Kazuo Uno(Photographer)
- Ikuo Nakamura(Photographer)
- Kentaro Fukuda(Photographer)
- Takayuki Maekawa(Photographer)
- Michiko Yone(Photographer)
- Osamu Sakamoto(Managing Director, The Forest Culture Association)
- Osamu Kobayashi(Photo Department Manager, Asahi Simbun Publications)
- Takeo Kato(Photo & Multimedia Editor, Asahi Shimbun Tokyo Head Office)
- Toru Nakata(Photo & Multimedia Editor, Asahi Shimbun Tokyo Head Office)
Digital Category
- Takayuki Maekawa(Photographer)
- Kentaro Fukuda(Photographer)
- Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc.
Main Sponsors
- The Asahi Shimbun
- The All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies
- The Forest Culture Association
- Corporate Sponsor
- Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc.
(Names listed without honorifics /Titles as of the time of the contest)
This year's contest is the 39th since The Asahi Shimbun held its first photo contest in 1983 commemorating 100 Locations to Conserve for the 21st Century. Under the theme of “Preserving Nature and Places in Japan Forever”, 65 printed photographs, including the First Prize, were selected from 5,619 competition entries submitted in the Print Category. For the Digital Category that was submitted online, 37 photographs, including the winning works chosen for the Sony 4K Award and Sony Next Photographer Award (for photographers who are 30 years of age or less), were selected from 9,108 competition entries.
May the natural splendor of Japan be re-discovered in the landscapes, flora, fauna, people at work and other directly expressed subject matter.
The Organizer
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