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
Final jury - 2024
- Kim Bourus, director, Higher Pictures Gallery
- Mame-Diarra Niang, artist
- Azu Nwagbogu, curator
- Jean-Baptiste Talbourdet, Creative Director, M Le Magazine du Monde
- Lisa Suttcliffe, curator, department of photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Last edition - Winners 2023