"Hua standing by the Yangtze River, Chongqing, 2008" © Tomoko Kikuchi

This year, both Arata Dodo and Tomoko Kikuchi received the Ihee Kimura Photography Prize. I wrote about Dodo a few weeks ago for American Photo ¹, and last week I wrote about Kikuchi’s work ². Kikuchi, who lives in China, has spent the past eight years documenting Chinese drag queens.