PARIS PHOTO - APERTURE
PHOTOBOOK AWARDS
PHOTOBOOK PRIZE
PARIS PHOTO - APERTURE
Initiated in November 2012 by Paris Photo and the Aperture Foundation, the PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography. Three awards will be presented on Friday, November 10 at Paris Photo: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photographic Catalogue of the Year. •
THE FIRST PHOTOBOOK PRIZE
A $10,000 prize is awarded to the photographer(s)/ artist(s) whose first finished, publicly available photobook is judged by a jury of photography professionals to be the best of the year.
THE PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE
This prize is awarded to the photographer(s)/artist(s), and publisher responsible, for the photobook judged to be the best of the year by a jury of photography professionals.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY CATALOGUE OF THE YEAR PRIZE
Awarded to the publication, publisher, and/or organizing institution responsible for the exhibition catalogue or museum publication judged by a jury of photography professionals to be the best of the year. The shortlisted books, accompanied by the jury’s comments, will appear online and in a special take-away catalogue, released at Paris Photo. The shortlisted books are exhibited at Paris Photo and subsequently featured in an international touring exhibition
The shortlist will be announced on October 10.
The shortlist jury is composed of:
• Deirdre Donohue, Assistant director of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, The New York Public Library
• Alex Lin, Creative director and owner, Studio Lin
• Lesley A. Martin, Editor at large, Aperture
• Renée Mussai, Artistic director, the Walther Collection
• Anna Planas, Artistic director, Paris Photo
DISCOVER THE LAUREATES
FIRST PHOTOBOOK
Carla Williams
Tender
TBW Books, Oakland, California
PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR
Vince Aletti
The Drawer
SPBH Editions, London, United Kingdom
PHOTOGRAPHY CATALOG OF THE YEAR
The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project
Diwas Raja Kc and NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati
Nepal Picture Library / photo.circle, Kathmandu, Nepal
Recaptioning Congo: African Stories and Colonial Pictures
Sandrine Colard
Lannoo Publishers, Tielt, Belgium
JURORS' SPECIAL MENTION
Recaptioning Congo: African Stories and Colonial Pictures
Sandrine Colard
Lannoo Publishers, Tielt, Belgium
THE PRE-SELECTED BOOKS
FIRST PHOTOBOOK
Thaddé Comar
How was your dream?
Mörel Books, London
Luis Corzo
Pasaco, 1996
Kult Books, Stockholm
Star Feliz
When Eye Land
Printed Matter Inc., New York
Liss Fenwick
Humpty Doom
Bad News Books, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Christopher Gregory-Rivera
El Gobierno Te Odia
Self-published, Penumbra Foundation, New York
Steve Harries
Octopus
RVB Books, Paris
Samuel James
Nightairs
Fw:Books, Amsterdam
Clifford Prince King
Orange Grove
TIS Books, New York
Anu Kumar
Ghar
Perimeter Editions, Melbourne
Jan Mammey and Falk Messerschmidt
Statues Also Die
Kodoji Press, Leipzig, Germany
Alejandro “Luperca” Morales
El Retrato De Tu Ausencia (The Portrait of Your Absence)
Kult Books, Stockholm, and Los Sumergidos, New York/ Mexico
Ronit Porat
Hunting in Time
Sternthal Books, Montreal, Quebec
Lúa Ribeira
Subida al Cielo
Dalpine, Madrid
César Rodríguez
Montaña Roja
KWY, Lima, Peru
Keisha Scarville
lick of tongue, rub of finger, on soft wound
MACK Books, London
Kristof Titeca, ed.
Nasser Road / Political Posters in Uganda
The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Bindi Vora
Mountain of Salt
Perimeter Editions, Melbourne
Carla Williams
Tender
TBW Books, Oakland, California
Alice Wong
Painting Photographs
TBW Books, Oakland, California
Yao Yuan
1 2 3 2 1
Self-published, Antwerp, Belgium
PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR
Vince Aletti
The Drawer
SPBH Editions, London, United Kingdom
Frédérique Bangerter, ed.
Archivo Nómada Vol. 1: 1975-1981Alberto García-Alix
Editorial Cabeza de Chorlito, Madrid
Felipe Romero Beltrán
Dialect
Loose Joints, Marseille, France
Lynne Cohen and Marina Gadonneix
Observatories/Laboratories and Laboratories/Observatories
Atelier EXB / Centre Pompidou, Paris
Samuel Gratacap
Bilateral
Poursuite, Arles, France
Mikiko Hara
Small Myths
Chose Commune, Marseille, France
Thomas Locke Hobbs
L.A. Vedute
The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Bharat Sikka
The Sapper
Fw:Books, Amsterdam
Hristina Tasheva
Far Away from Home: The Voices, the Body and the Periphery
Self-published, Bodegraven, Netherlands
Ruth van Beek
The Oldest Thing
Van Zoetendaal Publishers, Amsterdam
PHOTOGRAPHY CATALOG OF THE YEAR
Casa Susanna: L’histoire du premier réseau transgenre américain, 1959–1968
Isabelle Bonnet and Sophie Hackett
Editions Textuel, Paris
Japanese Photography Magazines: 1880s to 1980s
Ryuichi Kaneko, Masako Toda, Ivan Vartanian
Goliga, Tokyo
Källström-Fäldt
Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Köning, Gothenburg, Sweden
Recaptioning Congo: African Stories and Colonial Pictures
Sandrine Colard
Lannoo Publishers, Tielt, Belgium
The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project
Diwas Raja Kc and NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati
Nepal Picture Library / photo.circle, Kathmandu, Nepal