Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards explained

Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards
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The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards is a yearly photography book award that is given jointly by Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation. It is announced at the Paris Photo fair and was established in 2012.^[1] The categories are First PhotoBook (with a $10,000 prize), Photography Catalogue of the Year, and PhotoBook of the Year.

The shortlisted books are displayed at Paris Photo and then tour to Aperture Gallery in New York and venues elsewhere (in 2013 they toured to Denmark, Ireland, Finland and Cincinnati, OH).^[2]

PhotoBook of the Year winners

• 2012: City Diary (Volumes 1–3) by Anders Petersen (Steidl, 2012).^[3]
• 2013: A01 [COD.19.1.1.43] — A27 [S | COD.23] by Rosângela Rennó (RR Edições, 2013). Special jury recognition was awarded to War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, edited by Anne Wilkes Tucker and Will Michels with Natalie Zelt (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Yale University Press, 2012).
• 2014: Imaginary Club by Oliver Sieber (Editions GwinZegal/BöhmKobayashi, 2013). Special mention was awarded to Photographs for Documents by Vytautas V. Stanionis (Kaunas Photography Gallery, 2013).^{[4] [5]}
• 2015: Illustrated People by Thomas Mailaender (Archive of Modern Conflict/RVB Books, 2015). Special Jurors’ Mention was awarded to Deadline by Will Steacy (b.frank books, 2015).^{[6] [7]}
• 2016: ZZYZX by Gregory Halpern (Mack, 2016). Special Jurors’ Mention was awarded to Taking Stock of Power: An Other View of the Berlin Wall by Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer (Hatje Cantz, 2016).^[8]
• 2017: Museum Bhavan by Dayanita Singh (Steidl, 2017). Special Jurors’ Mention was awarded to La Grieta (The Crack) by Carlos Spottorno and Guillermo Abril (Astiberri Ediciones, 2016).^[9]
• 2018: On Abortion by Laia Abril (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2017).^[10]
• 2019: The Coast by Sohrab Hura (UGLY DOG [self-published], 2019).^[11]
• 2020: Woman Go No’Gree by Gloria Oyarzabal (Editorial RM and Images Vevey, 2020).^[12]
• 2021: The Banda Journal by Muhammad Faldi and Fatris MF (Jordan, jordan Édition, Jakarta, Indonesia).^[13]
• 2022: Périphérique by Mohamed Bourouissa (Loose Joints, Marseille, France)^[14]
• 2023: The Drawer by Vince Aletti (SPBH Editions, London)^[15]

First PhotoBook winners

• 2012: Concresco by David Galjaard (Self-published, 2012).
• 2013: KARMA by Óscar Monzón (RVB/Dalpine, 2013).
• 2014: Hidden Islam by Nicolò Degiorgis (Rorhof, 2014).^{[16] [17]}
• 2015: You Haven't Seen Their Faces by Daniel Mayrit (Riot, 2015).
• 2016: Libyan Sugar by Michael Christopher Brown (Twin Palms, 2016).
• 2017: Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation by Mathieu Asselin (Kettler, 2017).
• 2018: One Wall a Web by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (Roma, 2018). Special Jurors' Mention was awarded to Experimental Relationship Vol. 1 by Pixy Liao (Jiazazhi, 2018).
• 2019: The Eighth Day by Gao Shan (Imageless, 2019).
  • Special Jurors' Mention was awarded to This World and Others Like It (Fw and Yoffy, 2019).
• 2020: Living Trust by Buck Ellison (Loose Joints, 2020).
• 2021: Untitled by Sasha Phyars-Burgess (Capricious, New York).
• 2022: Hafiz: Guardians of the Qur'an by Sabiha Çimen (Red Hook, 2021)^[14]
• 2023: Tender by Carla Williams (TBW Books, Oakland, California)

Photography Catalogue of the Year winners

• 2014: Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness and Christopher Williams: Printed in Germany by Christopher Williams (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014) and (Walther König, 2014).
• 2015: Diane Dufour and Xavier Barral for Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence (Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2015).^[6]
• 2016: Wojciech Zamecznik: Photo-graphics by Karolina Puchała-Rojek and Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska (Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii, 2015).^[8]
• 2017: New Realities: Photography in the 19th Century by Mattie Boom and Hans Rooseboom (Rijksmuseum and nai010, 2017).
• 2018: The Land in Between by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (Mack, 2018).
• 2019: Enghelab Street, A Revolution through Books: Iran 1979–1983 by Hannah Darabi (Spector Books and Le Bal, 2019).
• 2020: Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography by Tina M. Campt, Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg, and Brian Wallis, eds. (Walther Collection and Steidl, 2020).
• 2021: What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999 by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich, eds. (10×10 Photobooks, New York).
• 2022: Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 by Makeda Best (Yale University Press)^[14]
• 2023: The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project by Diwas Raja Kc and NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati (Nepal Picture Library / photo.circle, Kathmandu, Nepal)

External links

• • Video introduction for the 2012 awards with Chris Boot and Lesley Martin.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Exhibition in Tokyo. 30 October 2015 . . 22 July 2015 .
2. Web site: Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award Winners Announced. Conor . Risch . 15 November 2014 . 30 October 2015 . .
3. "Announcing the Winners of The Paris Photo—Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2013", Aperture Foundation. Accessed 1 August 2014.
4. Web site: The 2014 Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. 14 November 2014 . 15 November 2014 . .
5. Web site: Winners! Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2014. 18 November 2014 . 30 October 2015 . .
6. Web site: Announcing the Winners of the 2015 PhotoBook Awards. 13 November 2015 . 13 November 2015 . .
7. Web site: Winners Announced for 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. Rachel . Lowry . 13 November 2015 . 13 November 2015 . .
8. Web site: Announcing the Winners of the 2016 PhotoBook Awards. 13 November 2016 . . 11 November 2016 .
9. Web site: Announcing the Winners of the 2017 PhotoBook Awards. 10 November 2017 . . 10 November 2017 .
10. Web site: Announcing the Winners of the 2018 PhotoBook Awards. 11 November 2018 . . 9 November 2018 .
11. Web site: Announcing the Winners of the 2019 PhotoBook Awards. 8 November 2019 . . 8 November 2019 .
12. Web site: 2020-12-04 . Announcing the Winners of the 2020 PhotoBook Awards . 2022-05-18 . Aperture . en-US.
13. Web site: 2021-11-12 . Announcing the Winners of the 2021 PhotoBook Awards . 2022-05-18 . Aperture . en-US.
14. Web site: Warner . Marigold . Paris Photo and Aperture announce winners of prestigious photobook awards - 1854 Photography . 2023-10-10 . www.1854.photography . en-GB.
15. Web site: Paul . Cassidy . 2023-11-10 . Announcing the Winners of the 2023 PhotoBook Awards . 2024-06-14 . Aperture . en-US.
16. Web site: Expressions of Islam, hidden from view, in northeast Italy. Tom . Seymour . 14 November 2014 . 30 October 2015 . .
17. Web site: Aperture Announces 2014 Photobook Awards. Andrew . Russeth . 14 November 2014 . 30 October 2015 . .