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.
v 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 

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