Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards - Shortlist
Discover the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Courtesy of Daniel Salemi, 2026 Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
First Photobook Award
A $10,000 prize will be awarded to the photographer or artist whose first photography book, duly published and made available to the public, is selected as the best book of the year.
Sara Bennett
Looking Inside: Women with Life Sentences
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
Design by Teun van der Heijden and Heijdens Karwei
Nata Drachinskaya
Binom
BLOW UP PRESS, Warsaw, and Rencontres d’Arles, France
Design by Nata Drachinskaya, Yumi Goto, Aneta Kowalczyk, and Jan Rosseel
Franco Dupuy
Cruising Diaries
Set Margins, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Design by Furio and Santiago Bogani
Jakob Ganslmeier and Ana Zibelnik
If a Flower Bloomed in a Dark Room, Would You Trust It?
Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany
Design by Hamid Sallali
Adél Koleszár
Only Have Faith (Solamente Ten Fe)
Art Paper Editions, Ghent, Belgium
Design by Jurgen Maelfeyt
Jeremy Liebman
Coincidence
Apartamento Publishing S.L., Barcelona
Design by Apartamento Studios and Laura Delgado
Yufan Lu
Make Me Beautiful
Editorial RM, México and Barcelona; Ediciones Posibles and Fundación Photographic Social Vision, Barcelona; Phree, Madrid
Design by Min Lyu
The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Design by Carel Fransen
Farren van Wyk
Mixedness Is My Mythology
Fw:Books, Amsterdam, and Deadbeat Club, Los Angeles
Design by Hans Gremmen
PhotoBook of the Year
This prize will jointly recognize the photographer and the publisher of the photography book selected as the best of the year.
Michele Borzoni and Rocco Rorandelli
Silent Springs
Loose Joints Publishing, Marseille, France / London
Design by Tommaso Tanini
Bieke Depoorter
The Beds I Slept In
Hannibal Books, Antwerp, Belgium
Design by Armand Mevis and Bieke Depoorter
Bérangère Fromont
République
Chose Commune, Marseille, France
Design by Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi and Perrine Serre
Roger Grasas
WALLS: A Visual Study on Border Geographies
Institut de les Desigualtats, Barcelona
Design by Studio Carles Murillo
Takashi Homma
This Is Not My Cat
Nieves, Zurich, and Perimeter Editions, Melbourne
Design by Benjamin Sommerhalder
Keisha Scarville
Passports, 2012–2025
MACK, London
Design by Keisha Scarville and Morgan Crowcroft-Brown
Newsha Tavakolian
And They Laughed at Me
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
Design by Kehrer Design, Laura Pecoroni
Catalog of the year
This prize will jointly recognize the photographer and the publisher of the photography book selected as the best of the year.
Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany
Design by NODE Berlin Oslo
Ecos de la Memoria (Echoes of Memory)
Marta Martín Núñez
Editorial RM, México et Barcelona, and Campgràfic Editors, Valencia, Spain
Design by Underbau
L Is for Look: Children’s Photobooks
Anne Lacoste and Rose Durr
Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany
Design by Ina Kwon and Helmut Völter
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Anuschka Blommers, Niels Schumm, et Julie Peeters
Blommers & Schumm, Roma Publications, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Design by Julie Peeters
Winners 2025
Credits photo: Grégoire Grange, Paris Photo-Aperture Book Award - Detail - Paris Photo, 2024
Pre-Jury 2026
This year's pre-jury consists of:
– Alejandro Cartagena, Artist
– Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Director of Design, Donald Judd Foundation
– Michael Famighetti, Editor in Chief, Aperture
– Anna Planas, Artistic Director, Paris Photo
– Anshika Varma, Founder and Curator, Offset Projects
Program - 2026 Paris Photo
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