2020 PROGRAM

Awards

Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation, in partnership with DELPIRE & CO, announce the shortlist for the 2020 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, celebrating the photobook’s contributions to the evolving narrative of photography, with three major categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalogue of the Year.

This year’s shortlist selection was made by a jury comprising:

- Joshua Chuang (New York Public Library),
- Lesley A. Martin (Aperture Foundation),
- Sarah Hermanson Meister (MoMA),
- Susan Meiselas (photographer, Magnum Foundation),
- Oluremi C. Onabanjo (independent curator and historian).

Discover the shortlist below.

Stephen Berkman
Predicting the Past—Zohar Studios: The Lost Years
Hat & Beard Press, Los Angeles

Judith Black
Pleasant Street
STANLEY/BARKER, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

Soumya Sankar Bose
Where the Birds Never Sing
Red Turtle Photobook (self-published), Kolkata, India

Maryna Brodovska
My Dear Vira
Self-published, Kyiv, Ukraine

June Canedo de Souza
Mara Kuya
Small Editions (self-published), Brooklyn

Ronghui Chen
Freezing Land
Jiazazhi Press, Ningbo, China

Ryan Debolski
LIKE
Gnomic Book, Brooklyn

Caroline & Cyril Desroche
Los Angeles Standards
Poursuite, Paris

Buck Ellison
Living Trust
Loose Joints Publishing, Marseille, France

Charlie Engman
MOM
Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich

Zahara Gomez Lucini
Recetario para la memoria
Self-published, Mexico City

Jessica Ingram
Road through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

Janna Ireland
Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View
Angel City Press, Santa Monica, California

Francesca Leonardi
’O Post Mio
Postcart Edizioni, Rome

Yael Martinez
La casa que sangra
KWY Ediciones, Lima, Peru

Sara Perovic
My Father’s Legs
J&L Books, New York

Fabio Ponzio
East of Nowhere
Thames & Hudson, London

Agnieszka Sejud
HOAX
Self-published, Wrocław, Poland

Diana Tamane
Flower Smuggler
Art Paper Editions, Ghent, Belgium

Efrem Zelony-Mindell
n e w f l e s h
Gnomic Book, Brooklyn

Carolyn Drake
Knit Club
TBW Books, Oakland, California

Samuel Fosso
Autoportrait
Walther Collection, New York, and Steidl, Göttingen, Germany

Takashi Homma
Symphony—Mushrooms from the Forest, 
Case Publishing, Tokyo

Thomas Kuijpers
Hoarder Order
Fw:Books, Amsterdam

Adam Lach and Dyba Lach
How to Rejuvenate an Eagle
Self-published, Warsaw

Edgar Martins
What Photography & Incarceration Have in Common with an Empty Vase The Moth House, 
Bedford, United Kingdomv

Orbita
Glass Strenči
Orbita and The Latvian Museum of Photography,
Riga, Latvia

Gloria Oyarzabal
Woman Go No’Gree
Editorial RM, Barcelona, and Images Vevey,
Switzerland

Luis Carlos Tovar
Jardín de mi Padre
Editorial RM, Barcelona, and Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

Cemre Yeşil Gönenli
Hayal & Hakikat: A Handbook of Forgiveness & A Handbook of Punishment
GOST Books, London, and FiLBooks, Istanbul

Anne Turyn: Top Stories
Elena Cheprakova and Kirsten Weiss, eds.
Weiss Berlin, Berlin

African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other
Steven Evans, Max Fields, and Mark Sealy, eds.
Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, and FotoFest, Houston

Bill Brandt | Henry Moore
Martina Droth and Paul Messier, eds.
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Hommage à Moï Ver, The Ghetto Lane in Wilna (Schaubücher 27): 65 Pictures by M. Vorobeichic
Sigutė Chlebinskaitė, Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, and Nissan N. Perez, eds.
Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius

Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography
Tina M. Campt, Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg, and Brian Wallis, eds.
Walther Collection, New York, and Steidl, Göttingen, Germany