Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards

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Co-founded in November 2012 by Paris Photo and the Aperture Foundation, the Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography.

Paris Photo and Aperture are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the evolving narrative of photography. Now in its twelfth year, the awards recognize excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year.

After receiving 940 books from fifty-nine countries, the jury for the shortlist gathered to make the selection of the works below.

First Photobook Award

A $10,000 prize is awarded to the photographer(s)/artist(s) whose first finished, publicly available photobook is judged to be the best of the year. 20 books from this category have been selected for the shortlist, and they will be presented to the final jury for selection and exhibited during Paris Photo.

Hady Barry
i am (not) your mother

Self-published, Penumbra Foundation, New York
Design by Hady Barry

Ciro Battiloro
Silence Is a Gift

Chose Commune, Marseille, France
Design by Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi and Perrine Serre

Angeniet Berkers
Lebensborn: Birth Politics in the Third Reich

The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Design by Rob van Hoesel

Claire Cocano
Rue Désiré Chevalier

Self-published, Paris
Design by Claire Cocano

Barbara Debeuckelaere
’Om (Mother)

The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Design by Carel Fransen

Simone Engelen
27 Drafts

Fw:Books, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Design by Hans Gremmen

Janick Entremont
If Time Does Not End

Self-published, Berlin
Design by Janick Entremont

Ismail Ferdous
Sea Beach

Imageless, Shanghai
Design by Scarlett Meng

Toma Gerzha
Control Refresh

The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Design by Rob van Hoesel

Virginia Hanusik
Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, New York
Design by Dave Yun and Inyeong Cho

Abdulhamid Kircher
Rotting from Within

Loose Joints, London
Design by Loose Joints

Hassan Kurbanbaev
One Head and Thousand Years

Art Paper Editions, Ghent, Belgium
Design by Jurgen Maelfeyt

Srinivas Kuruganti
Pictures in My Hand of a Boy I Still Resemble

Self-published / Marigold Books, Delhi, India
Design by Srinivas Kuruganti

Nicola Moscelli
Dead End

Penisola Edizioni and Antiga Edizioni, Crocetta del Montello, Italy
Design by Roberto Vito D’Amico

RaMell Ross
Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body

MACK, London
Design by Morgan Crowcroft-Brown

Melissa Shook
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973

TBW Books, Oakland, California
Design by Paul Schiek

Ngadi Smart
Wata Na Life

Loose Joints, London
Design by Loose Joints

Tsai Ting Bang
Born from the Same Root

Self-published, Taipei
Design by Tsai Ting Bang

Rawsht Twana
Twana’s Box: The Photographic Life of Twana Abdullah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 1974–1992

Fraglich Publishing, Bregenz, Austria
Design by Stefano Carini and Lukas Birk

Róisín White
Lay Her Down Upon Her Back

Witty Books, Turin, Italy, Landskrona Foto, Sweden, and Breadfield Press, Malmö, Sweden
Design by Tommaso Tanini

PhotoBook of the Year

This prize is awarded to the photographer(s)/artist(s) and publisher(s) responsible for the photobook judged to be the best of the year.
10 books from this category have been selected for the shortlist, and they will be presented to the final jury for selection and exhibited during Paris Photo.

Taysir Batniji
Disruptions

Loose Joints, London
Design by Loose Joints

Cai Dongdong
Passing By Beijing

Cai Dongdong Studio, Beijing
Design by Wang Lisha

Lia Darjes
Plates I–XXXI

Chose Commune, Marseille, France
Design by Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi and Perrine Serre

Jessica Ingram
We Are Carver

Self-published, Dallenwil, Switzerland
Design by Michael Schmelling

Akihiko Okamura
Les souvenirs des autres (The Memories of Others)

Atelier EXB, Paris
Design by François Dezafit

César Rodríguez
Hoja Dorada

KWY, Lima, Peru
Design by Vera Lucía Jiménez

Rosalind Fox Solomon
A Woman I Once Knew

MACK, London
Design by Morgan Crowcroft-Brown

Peter van Agtmael
Look at the U.S.A.: A Diary of War and Home

Thames & Hudson, London
Design by Bonnie Briant Design

Awoiska van der Molen
The Humanness of Our Lonely Selves

Fw:Books, Amsterdam
Design by Hans Gremmen

Carmen Winant
The Last Safe Abortion

SPBH Editions, London
Design by Brian Paul Lamotte

Photography Catalog of the Year

Added to the PhotoBook Awards in 2014, this prize is awarded to the publication(s), publisher(s), and/or organizing institution(s) responsible for the exhibition catalog or museum publication judged to be the best of the year. 5 books from this category have been selected for the shortlist, and they will be presented to the final jury for selection and exhibited during Paris Photo.

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering
Katia Reich

Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany
Design by Helmut Völter

Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950–Present
Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich

10×10 Photobooks, New York
Design by Huber/Sterzinger and Miloš Gavrić

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm—Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection
Grace Wales Bonner

Museum of Modern Art, New York
Design by Peter Miles

Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain
Joy Gregory, editor, and Taous Dahmani, associate editor

Autograph and MACK, London
Design by Morgan Crowcroft-Brown

Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Lines and Bodies
Diane Dufour and Mei Asakura

Atelier EXB and LE BAL, Paris
Design by Coline Aguettaz

Shortlist jury - 2024

This year, the jury is composed of:

- Anna Planas, Artistic Director, Paris Photo

- Negar Azimi, Editor in chief, Bidoun

- Jacqueline Bates, Photography Director, Opinion, New York Times

- Michael Famighetti, Editor in chief, Aperture

- Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Director of graduate studies in graphic design, Yale School of Art

Last edition - Winners 2023

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