| year | photographer |
|---|---|
| 1989 | Nan Goldin[1] |
| 1991 | Olivier Richon[2] |
| 1993 | Seiichi Furuya[3] |
| 1995 | David Goldblatt[4] |
| 1997 | [none] |
| 1999 | Hans-Peter Feldmann[5] |
| 2001 | Allan Sekula[6] |
| 2003 | Aglaia Konrad[7] |
| 2005 | Walid Raad[8] |
| 2007 | Marika Asatiani[9] |
| 2009 | Sanja Iveković[10] |
| 2011 | Heidrun Holzfeind |
| 2013 | Joachim Koester |
| 2015 | Annette Kelm |
| 2017 | Jochen Lempert |
| 2019 | Lebohang Kganye |
| 2021 | Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński |
| 2023 | Joanna Piotrowska |
TheCamera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz (Camera Austria-Preis für zeitgenössische Fotografie der Stadt Graz) is an award given every two years since 1989 by the city ofGraz.[11]