2025 Lucie Photo Book Prize
Deadline: August 22, 2025
The Lucie Foundation is dedicated to celebrating all forms of photography, in print and online and is pleased to introduce the Lucie Photo Book Prize. This program is a juried competition open to a diversity of book submissions- from traditionally published to prototypes, hand-made books to zines. The awards are presented to photographers, editors, curators or publishers.
The Lucie Foundation is proud to offer two cash prizes to the top two finalists for their outstanding work.
Traditional $3,000 Cash Prize
Independent $2,000 Cash Prize
Winners and finalists will be part of a group exhibition in New York City at Picto NY in the Fall.
More information regarding the exhibition to come.
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ABOUT THE LUCIE PHOTO BOOK PRIZE
The Lucie Photo Book Prize is a juried competition open to a diversity of submissions – from published to prototype to hand-made books. The awards will be presented to photographers, editors, curators or publishers who have created such projects anywhere in the world within March 2023 – September 2025.
The Lucie Foundation is proud to offer two cash prizes to the top two finalists for their outstanding work – one Traditional $3,000 cash prize and one Independent $2,000 cash prize. The Traditional Prize will be awarded to a photographer, editor, curator or publisher whose book is commercially produced and distributed. The Independent Prize will be awarded to a photographer, editor, curator or publisher whose book is published and distributed independently.
ABOUT LUCIE FOUNDATION
Lucie Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization whose three-tiered mission is to honor master photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent, and promote the appreciation of photography, worldwide. Lucie Foundation presents a variety of programs throughout the year, including its signature program, The Lucie Awards.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Photographers, editors, and curators are all welcome to submit their books. Eligible books include exhibition catalogues, proposals, self-published, limited edition, multi-artist, single-author, intersectional, zine, reissue, and more!
JURY
The Lucie Photo Book Jury – consisting of visual directors, curators, creative directors, editors, publishers and photography critics – will take part in recognizing and rewarding deserving photographers, editors, curators, and publishers who share the passion of making incredible imagery through the photo book medium. The Jury is responsible for choosing the top finalists, as well as the top two cash prize winners. Finalists will be chosen from a mix of the categories, all categories might not be represented.
Jury
The Lucie Photo Book Jury – consisting of visual directors, curators, creative directors, editors, publishers and photography critics – will take part in recognizing and rewarding deserving photographers, editors, curators, and publishers who share the passion of making incredible imagery through the photo book medium.
We are pleased to announce this years esteemed jury for the Lucie Photo Book Prize. The Jury is responsible for choosing the finalists, as well as the top two cash prize winners.
Gwen Lee
Director, DECK and Artistic Director, SIPF
Gwen Lee is the co-founder of the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) and founding director of DECK Photography Art Centre. She was recognized in 2010 by the Japan Chamber of Commerce & Trade for her contributions to the arts in Singapore and conducted curatorial research in Germany in 2013 with support from the Goethe Institut Singapore and the National Arts Council. In 2012, SIPF received grants for public photography education programmes. In 2014, Lee and her team built a repurposed container art space for exhibitions and residencies, winning the Singapore President’s Design Award in 2015. In 2022, she was awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Arts & Letters by France, Ministry of Culture. Lee has curated notable exhibitions, including those of Daido Moriyama (2016), and book award & projects with Steidl Publishing. Gwen has served as a jury member and portfolio reviewer for various prestigious photography awards and festivals such as FOAM Paul Huf Award, New Cosmos Japan, FORMAT, KL PHOTO Award, KG+, DIPE China, Houston Fotofestival, Daegul Photo Biennale, Recontres d’ Arles, World Press Photo 2024, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025.
Kira Pollack
Photo Curator
Kira Pollack is a leading creative director and photo editor known for pioneering new approaches to visual storytelling. Throughout her career, she has redefined how photography, emerging technology, and digital media intersect to expand the possibilities of visual journalism.
Currently, she is a 2025 Walter Shorenstein Media & Democracy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, exploring how AI-driven tools can deepen our understanding of visual history, support authorship and legacy, and provide new solutions for image analysis and discovery. She recently concluded a fellowship at Stanford and USC’s Starling Lab, where she led a pilot project applying archival protocols to preserve photojournalistic collections. As a Distinguished Fellow at Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford Engineering School and USC Libraries, she focused on preserving and authenticating photojournalistic archives in the era of generative AI. Her research culminated in her Washington Post essay, “Photos Are Disappearing, One Archive at a Time.”
Previously, Pollack was Creative Director and Deputy Editor at Vanity Fair, where she oversaw more than 50 covers, collaborated with leading photographers and artists, and shaped the visual direction for The Great Fire, the special issue guest-edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
At TIME, where she spent nearly a decade, Pollack was Director of Photography and later Deputy Editor—one of the rare creative leaders to ascend to a top editorial position. She shaped the magazine’s editorial and visual strategy, overseeing a team of editors, photographers, and filmmakers while elevating new talent. Under her leadership, TIME produced landmark multimedia projects that redefined visual storytelling. The 100 Most Influential Photographs of All Time and Firsts—a series profiling trailblazing women including Oprah Winfrey, Aretha Franklin, and Hillary Clinton—spanned documentary films, interactive digital experiences, special issues, and hardcover books, reinforcing TIME’s leadership in multimedia journalism.
Pollack also led the visual direction of hundreds of TIME covers, defining the magazine’s photographic identity during a transformative era. She launched Red Border Films, TIME’s first in-house documentary film unit—later evolving into Time Studios—and created LightBox, an award-winning digital photography platform. Her work on Beyond 9/11, a multimedia documentary project featuring 46 short films and an HBO documentary, earned a News & Documentary Emmy Award. She also commissioned TIME’s World Press Photo of the Year-winning portrait of Bibi Aisha, the Afghan woman whose story became a global symbol of resilience.
Earlier in her career, Pollack was Deputy Photo Editor at The New York Times Magazine, where she helped produce major visual projects, including Obama’s People, a historic 60-page portrait portfolio published ahead of President Obama’s first inauguration.
Pollack’s work has been recognized with two Emmy Awards, a Lucie Award for Photo Editor of the Year, multiple Webby Awards, and five National Magazine Awards. She has served as a juror for World Press Photo, the Tribeca Film Festival, and the W. Eugene Smith Grant. Her TED Talk, “What Makes a Photograph Influential?”, has been widely viewed.
She is based in New York City.
Photo Credit: Peter Hapak
Mikko Takkunen
Staff Photo editor, International desk, The New York Times
Mikko Takkunen is a photographer and a photo editor based in New York. He works as a photo editor at The New York Times’s International desk. He spent more than five years between 2016–2021 in Hong Kong as the desk’s Asia photo editor. During the last 18 months of that time he made photographs that became his debut photo book ‘Hong Kong’.
Photo Credit: Earl Wilson
Dean Brierly
Editor-in-Chief/Art Director, Black & White Magazine
Detroit native Dean Brierly is a writer/editor/photographer who has lived in Los Angeles from the mid-1980s. He is currently Editor-in-Chief/Art Director of Black & White magazine, having previously worked for Darkroom, Camera & Darkroom, PhotoWork and B&W+COLOR. Dean has written extensively on photography for these and other publications, including Photo Metro, Photo Central, Photovision and Color. Many of his interviews with famous and notable photographers can be found on his blog Photographers Speak.
He is also a film historian and has contributed to numerous print and online publications, including Cinema Retro, Filmfax, Outré and SKY Magazine. He has written liner notes for Blu- ray and DVD releases, and the film blogs Fifties Crime Films, Sixties Crime Films and Classic Hollywood Quotes. He is the co-author with actress Sandra de Bruin of her 2022 memoir Hollywood with a Smile (BearManor Media). He has written liner notes for jazz and modern classical CDs for such labels as Naxos, Sono Luminus, Crosscheck Records and Higher Octave Music.
Dean is an exhibited photographer who has done extensive street photography in Japan, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Spain, Greece, the British Isles and many other countries. He shoots digitally and on film, and maintains an analog darkroom in which he blurs the line between representation and abstraction through photograms, duotone solarization, chemical painting and other nontraditional Approaches.
Photo Credit: Steven A. Heller
Karen Williams
Visual Creative Director
Karen Williams is a dedicated mentor to aspiring photographers, advocating for equitable access to information within the industry. With more than 10 years of experience in photography, Karen is a visual creative director, keynote speaker, and founder of Black Visual Queen a photography consulting firm. An industry insider, she’s had a hand in visual stories for iconic brands like Netflix, Masterclass, Square, Wired, AARP, and San Francisco. In her free time, she loves marathon training and all things pop culture.
Karen lives in Los Angeles, California.
Photo by Katie Thompson
Nicole Motta
Art Director, Meta
Nicole Motta (she/her/hers) is an Art Director based in NYC with over 9+ years of experience in art direction and creative production in the photo, design, tech, music, and publishing industries. She is an Art Director at Meta/Facebook App and was previously at Apple and Selman. She is a Peruvian-American creative, passionate about the intersectionality between photo, tech, design, visual communications, and the future of the photographic medium.
Nicole has a BFA in Photography & Imaging from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she is currently an adjunct instructor and holds a minor in Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology from NYU Stern School of Business, and certifications from Droga5’s D5in10 advertising program and Yale’s Business School of Management. She is currently the Programming Lead for the AIGANY. She focuses on pushing the boundaries of visual literacy by amplifying voices for creatives and communities from historically marginalized communities and groups.
Gwen Lee
Director, DECK and Artistic Director, SIPF
Gwen Lee is the co-founder of the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) and founding director of DECK Photography Art Centre. She was recognized in 2010 by the Japan Chamber of Commerce & Trade for her contributions to the arts in Singapore and conducted curatorial research in Germany in 2013 with support from the Goethe Institut Singapore and the National Arts Council. In 2012, SIPF received grants for public photography education programmes. In 2014, Lee and her team built a repurposed container art space for exhibitions and residencies, winning the Singapore President’s Design Award in 2015. In 2022, she was awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Arts & Letters by France, Ministry of Culture. Lee has curated notable exhibitions, including those of Daido Moriyama (2016), and book award & projects with Steidl Publishing. Gwen has served as a jury member and portfolio reviewer for various prestigious photography awards and festivals such as FOAM Paul Huf Award, New Cosmos Japan, FORMAT, KL PHOTO Award, KG+, DIPE China, Houston Fotofestival, Daegul Photo Biennale, Recontres d’ Arles, World Press Photo 2024, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025.
Kira Pollack
Photo Curator
Kira Pollack is a leading creative director and photo editor known for pioneering new approaches to visual storytelling. Throughout her career, she has redefined how photography, emerging technology, and digital media intersect to expand the possibilities of visual journalism.
Currently, she is a 2025 Walter Shorenstein Media & Democracy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, exploring how AI-driven tools can deepen our understanding of visual history, support authorship and legacy, and provide new solutions for image analysis and discovery. She recently concluded a fellowship at Stanford and USC’s Starling Lab, where she led a pilot project applying archival protocols to preserve photojournalistic collections. As a Distinguished Fellow at Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford Engineering School and USC Libraries, she focused on preserving and authenticating photojournalistic archives in the era of generative AI. Her research culminated in her Washington Post essay, “Photos Are Disappearing, One Archive at a Time.”
Previously, Pollack was Creative Director and Deputy Editor at Vanity Fair, where she oversaw more than 50 covers, collaborated with leading photographers and artists, and shaped the visual direction for The Great Fire, the special issue guest-edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
At TIME, where she spent nearly a decade, Pollack was Director of Photography and later Deputy Editor—one of the rare creative leaders to ascend to a top editorial position. She shaped the magazine’s editorial and visual strategy, overseeing a team of editors, photographers, and filmmakers while elevating new talent. Under her leadership, TIME produced landmark multimedia projects that redefined visual storytelling. The 100 Most Influential Photographs of All Time and Firsts—a series profiling trailblazing women including Oprah Winfrey, Aretha Franklin, and Hillary Clinton—spanned documentary films, interactive digital experiences, special issues, and hardcover books, reinforcing TIME’s leadership in multimedia journalism.
Pollack also led the visual direction of hundreds of TIME covers, defining the magazine’s photographic identity during a transformative era. She launched Red Border Films, TIME’s first in-house documentary film unit—later evolving into Time Studios—and created LightBox, an award-winning digital photography platform. Her work on Beyond 9/11, a multimedia documentary project featuring 46 short films and an HBO documentary, earned a News & Documentary Emmy Award. She also commissioned TIME’s World Press Photo of the Year-winning portrait of Bibi Aisha, the Afghan woman whose story became a global symbol of resilience.
Earlier in her career, Pollack was Deputy Photo Editor at The New York Times Magazine, where she helped produce major visual projects, including Obama’s People, a historic 60-page portrait portfolio published ahead of President Obama’s first inauguration.
Pollack’s work has been recognized with two Emmy Awards, a Lucie Award for Photo Editor of the Year, multiple Webby Awards, and five National Magazine Awards. She has served as a juror for World Press Photo, the Tribeca Film Festival, and the W. Eugene Smith Grant. Her TED Talk, “What Makes a Photograph Influential?”, has been widely viewed.
She is based in New York City.
Photo Credit: Peter Hapak
Mikko Takkunen
Staff Photo editor, International desk, The New York Times
Mikko Takkunen is a photographer and a photo editor based in New York. He works as a photo editor at The New York Times’s International desk. He spent more than five years between 2016–2021 in Hong Kong as the desk’s Asia photo editor. During the last 18 months of that time he made photographs that became his debut photo book ‘Hong Kong’.
Photo Credit: Earl Wilson
Dean Brierly
Editor-in-Chief/Art Director, Black & White Magazine
Detroit native Dean Brierly is a writer/editor/photographer who has lived in Los Angeles from the mid-1980s. He is currently Editor-in-Chief/Art Director of Black & White magazine, having previously worked for Darkroom, Camera & Darkroom, PhotoWork and B&W+COLOR. Dean has written extensively on photography for these and other publications, including Photo Metro, Photo Central, Photovision and Color. Many of his interviews with famous and notable photographers can be found on his blog Photographers Speak.
He is also a film historian and has contributed to numerous print and online publications, including Cinema Retro, Filmfax, Outré and SKY Magazine. He has written liner notes for Blu- ray and DVD releases, and the film blogs Fifties Crime Films, Sixties Crime Films and Classic Hollywood Quotes. He is the co-author with actress Sandra de Bruin of her 2022 memoir Hollywood with a Smile (BearManor Media). He has written liner notes for jazz and modern classical CDs for such labels as Naxos, Sono Luminus, Crosscheck Records and Higher Octave Music.
Dean is an exhibited photographer who has done extensive street photography in Japan, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Spain, Greece, the British Isles and many other countries. He shoots digitally and on film, and maintains an analog darkroom in which he blurs the line between representation and abstraction through photograms, duotone solarization, chemical painting and other nontraditional Approaches.
Photo Credit: Steven A. Heller
Karen Williams
Visual Creative Director
Karen Williams is a dedicated mentor to aspiring photographers, advocating for equitable access to information within the industry. With more than 10 years of experience in photography, Karen is a visual creative director, keynote speaker, and founder of Black Visual Queen a photography consulting firm. An industry insider, she’s had a hand in visual stories for iconic brands like Netflix, Masterclass, Square, Wired, AARP, and San Francisco. In her free time, she loves marathon training and all things pop culture.
Karen lives in Los Angeles, California.
Photo by Katie Thompson
Nicole Motta
Art Director, Meta
Nicole Motta (she/her/hers) is an Art Director based in NYC with over 9+ years of experience in art direction and creative production in the photo, design, tech, music, and publishing industries. She is an Art Director at Meta/Facebook App and was previously at Apple and Selman. She is a Peruvian-American creative, passionate about the intersectionality between photo, tech, design, visual communications, and the future of the photographic medium.
Nicole has a BFA in Photography & Imaging from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she is currently an adjunct instructor and holds a minor in Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology from NYU Stern School of Business, and certifications from Droga5’s D5in10 advertising program and Yale’s Business School of Management. She is currently the Programming Lead for the AIGANY. She focuses on pushing the boundaries of visual literacy by amplifying voices for creatives and communities from historically marginalized communities and groups.
Daniella Zalcman
Founder & Director, Women Photograph
Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based in New Orleans, LA. She is a Catchlight Fellow, a multiple grantee of the National Geographic Society and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the founder of Women Photograph, a nonprofit working to elevate the voices of women and nonbinary visual journalists.
Her work tends to focus on the legacies of western colonization, from the rise of homophobia in East Africa to the forced assimilation education of Indigenous children in North America. Her ongoing project, Signs of Your Identity, is the recipient of the Arnold Newman Prize, a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, the FotoEvidence Book Award, the Magnum Foundation’s Inge Morath Award, and part of Open Society Foundation’s Moving Walls 24. You can find her work in National Geographic Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Mashable, BuzzFeed, TIME, The New York Times, and elsewhere.
Daniella is a proud member of the Authority Collective and Diversify Photo, a co-founder of Indigenous Photograph, a co-founder and creative director of We, Women, and a co-author of the Photo Bill of Rights.
Daniella is also currently a Professor of Practice at Tulane University, was a visiting professor at Wake Forest University from 2018-2020 and the 2022 T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Professor at the University of Montana. She is a member of the board of trustees of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, the board of directors of the ACOS Alliance, and the board of governors of the Overseas Press Club. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in architecture in 2009.
Photo by Taylor Mickal
Additional Jurors to be Announced Soon
SUBMIT
ELIGIBILITY: The awards will be presented to photographers, editors, curators, or publishers who have created such projects anywhere in the world within March 2023 – September 2025.
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: 20% discount until April 25th, 2025 discount applied at checkout
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: August 22, 2025 Cut off time – 12midnight ET (USA)
APPLICATION PROCESS: Complete Submission Form and upload PDF File of Book. Click the button below.
Winners will be announced: September 2025
* Due to the volume of submissions, the Lucie Foundation accepts online submissions only. Please do not ship books to the foundation. Thank you.
SUBMIT
FAQ
IS THERE A LIMIT TO THE NUMBER OF SUBMISSIONS?
No, you may submit as many applications as you would like.
HOW SHOULD I PREPARE MY FILES?
Please prepare your files according to the specifications below.
• JPG only. (NO TIF, GIF, PNG, PDF files will be accepted.)
• 72 DPI
• No file should exceed 4mb
• PDF of complete book (cover to cover) Max 60mb (*Please make sure your pages in the PDF are layout form of the book, not individual pages)
HOW WILL I KNOW IF I WAS SELECTED?
If you were selected for the shortlist or as a recipient, you will be contacted directly through the email which you provided in the submission form. The shortlist and recipients will also be announced via the Lucie Foundation newsletter, website, and social media. Due to the volume of submissions, we are not able to notify if you were not selected. Winners and finalists will be announced in mid-September.
SUBMISSION FEES:
Traditional – $55 for first submission, 20% discount for each additional category of the same book submission.
The Traditional Prize will be awarded to a photographer, editor, curator or publisher whose book is commercially produced and distributed.
Independent – $35 for first submission, 20% discount for each additional category of the same book submission.
The Independent Prize will be awarded to a photographer, editor, curator or publisher whose book is published and distributed independently.
CATEGORIES:
1. Exhibition Catalogue: Printed publication made to accompany a temporary exhibition or installation at a gallery or alternative space.
2. First: Open to photographers, authors, and publishers who have not previously had a book published by a third party publishing house.
3. Intersectional: Publication that mixes photography with another medium. This can include text, music, painting, graphic design, poetry, and more.
4. Limited Edition: A book that is released in a limited quantity print run.
5. Multi Artist / Multi Publisher: More than one artist, and/or publisher is featured in the publication.
6. Other: Publication that does not fit within in any of the other ten categories.
7. Proposal: Plan or scheme of a publication, including visual and text which outlines book idea. / Prototype: Mock-up of a proposed publication.
8. Reissue: A book that has not been available for a period of time, but is now being published or produced again.
9. Self- Published: Publication of any book or other media by its author without the involvement of an established publisher. / Handmade: Self-published book made by hand.
10. Single Artist / Single Publisher: Publication composed by one artist, and/or publisher.
11. Zine: A small-circulation, self-published work.
SUBCATEGORIES:
Culture / Nature / Landscape, Fashion / Portrait, Documentary / Photojournalism, Fine Art / Contemporary, Single Subject, and Other.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR
PICTO New York
Picto was founded in Paris in 1950 by Pierre Gassmann, a photography pioneer. Over time, Picto has evolved into a prominent collaborator with some of the world’s most renowned photographers, galleries, museums, and prestigious fashion, luxury, and beauty brands.
In 2015, Picto New York was established as part of its global expansion. Picto New York caters to the requirements of professional photographers and visual artists, ranging from studio services to image retouching, printing, and framing, as well as providing image production, prepress, and traffic services to global luxury brands.
PAST WINNERS
2024 Winner and Finalists / Traditional Category
Winners:
First
Say Less / Dr. Greg Gulbransen
GOST Books
Finalists:
Exhibition Catalogue
War (Photographs from the Iran-Iraq War; A Requiem: 1980-1988) / Alfred Yaghobzadeh
Bāygāni Publishing House
Exhibition Catalogue
The Shape of Things / Carrie Mae Weems
MW Editions and Luma Foundation
First
Hydroelectric Sublime / Beatrice Gorelli and Keiichi Kitayama
Lars Müller Publishers
First
Nothing Serious Can Happen Here / Adam Lampton
KEHRER
First
Testament ’22 / Byron Smith
Verlag Kettler
First
Remember Me / Preston Gannaway
GOST Books
First
Rotan Switch / Lisa McCord
KEHRER
First
A Poor Sort of Memory / Tracy L. Chandler
Deadbeat Club Press
Limited Edition
I Still Speak Southern in my Head / Nancy Richards Farese
Workshop Arts
Other
Ten Years / Sandra Cattaneo Adorno
Radius Books
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Skinningrove / Chris Killip
Stanley/Barker
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Fugue / Lydia Goldblatt
GOST Books
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Paradise Inc / Guillaume Bonn
Hemeria
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
North Korea: The People’s Paradise / Tariq Zaidi
KEHRER
2024 Winner and Finalists / Independent Category
Winner:
Other
Mi’raj / J Carrier
Tis Books
Finalists:
Exhibition Catalogue
Egungun: The Spirit Catchers of Benin – Catalogue / Kwaku Alston
Leica Gallery LA
Exhibition Catalogue
HeadStrong: The Women of Rural Uganda / Dan Nelken
Blue Sky Books
First
Intraccià / Kamil Zihnioglu
Saetta Books
First
Eye Mama / teNeues
Karni Arieli
First
Windscreen / Phil Jung
TBW Books
First
At Least Until The World Stops Going Round / Charlie Tallott
New Dimension
First
I saw a tree bearing stones in the place of apples and pears / Emilia Martin
Yogurt Editions
First
When Cages Fly / raya
Kiana Hayeri
First
JAMAIKA / José Sarmento Matos
Self Published
First
American Eden / Valerio Geraci
Penisola Edizioni In collaboration with Antiga Edizioni
First
Lumes / Adra Pallón
PHREE and Photographic Social Vision
Limited Edition
Gulag / Barry Lewis
Fistful of Books
Multi Artist / Multi Author / Multi Publisher
Artist Volumes Series (Issue 1, Fall 2023) / Cristina Velásquez, Felipe Romero Beltrán, Camilo Godoy, Giancarlo Montes Santangelo, and Jenny Calivas
New Poetics
Self-Published / Handmade
80°05′ / Kouta Takahashi
Self Published
2023 Winner and Finalists / Traditional Category
Winners:
Exhibition Catalogue
Joshua Rashaad McFadden: I Believe I’ll Run On / Joshua Rashaad McFadden
George Eastman Museum and Yale University Press
First
Bedfellow / Caroline Tompkins
Palm* Studios
Finalists:
Exhibition Catalogue
Shirin Neshat: Land of Dreams / Shirin Neshat
Radius Books and Site Santa Fe
First
About the Days ahead / Ingmar Björn Nolting
Verlag Kettler
First
Renegades: San Francisco, The 1990s / Chloe Sherman
Hatje Cantz
First
Absentee / Sayuri Ichida
IBASHO and the(M) éditions
First
Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging / Binh Danh
Radius Books
First
I Can Feel You Dreaming / Taylor Galloway
Deadbeat Club
First
Meeting Sofie / Snezhana von Büdingen-Dyba
Le Bec en l’air
Limited Edition
Hidden: Life with California’s Roma Families / Cristina Salvador Klenz
Brown Paper Press
Multi Artist / Multi Author / Multi Publisher
Countdown / Jeanine Michna-Bales & Adam Reynolds, Fred Kaplan (opening essay)
Yoffy Press
Multi Artist / Multi Author / Multi Publisher
Women Photograph What We See: Women and Nonbinary Perspectives Through the Lens / 100 photographs from women and nonbinary visual storytellers
White Lion Publishing
Multi Artist / Multi Author / Multi Publisher
Reclaim the Street: Street Photography’s Moment / Stephen McLaren and Matt Stuart
Thames & Hudson
Other
The Kabuler / Cristina de Middel and Lorenzo Meloni
This Book is True
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Star Struck / Ave Pildas
Deadbeat Club
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Jamel Shabazz: Albums / Jamel Shabazz
Steidl
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Gloryland / Robert LeBlanc
Setanta Books
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Proof of Work / Danny Franzreb
Hartmann Books
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Loisaida New York Street Work 1984 – 1990 / Tria Giovan
Damiani
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Gli Isolani (The Islanders) / Alys Tomlinson
GOST Books
2023 Winner and Finalists / Independent Category
Winner:
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
We Cry In Silence / Smita Sharma
FotoEvidence
Finalists:
First
Potato head / Rosa Isabel Vázquez López
Muertedero
First
Playboys / Robert Yager
550BC
First
Cousins / Kristen Joy Emack
L’Artiere
First
Ghar / Anu Kumar
Perimeter Editions
First
Car Culture / Jonathan Castillo
SKYLARK Editions
First
Do svidaniya mama / Anastasia Shvachko
First
Not Surrendering / Mariusz Śmiejek
First
Moemoea / Brendan George Ko
Conveyor Editions
First
The North Fork / Trent Davis Bailey
Trespasser
First
Rao’s Newsstand / Takuya Ishikawa
Kaze
Intersectional
Where They Still Remain / Austin Bryant
Self-published via Conveyor Studios
Limited Edition
In Their Own Light: Photographs from Chicago Public Schools / Melissa Ann Pinney
Skylark
Limited Edition
The Evidence Project / 24 leading photojournalists
Photographers Against Wildlife
Multi Artist / Multi Author / Multi Publisher
Ukraine: A War Crime / 93 photojournalists from 29 countries
FotoEvidence
Multi Artist / Multi Author / Multi Publisher
Lens and Landscape / Maleonn Ma and Tonje Bøe Birkeland
Northing
Proposal / Prototype
Field Book / Jordan Putt
Proposal / Prototype
Tierra Sin Agua / Ana Rodríguez Heinlein
Proposal / Prototype
Mirage Hotel / Francesco Villa
Self-Published
Don’t Forget to Wave / Tommy Keith
Self-Published
Self-Published
Dark Garden / Jackson Porter Hardin
Self-Published
Self-Published
Like Dust Settling in a Dim-Lit Room (Or Starless Forest) / Jake Benzinger
Self-Published
Self-Published
Instagrampier / Pierfrancesco Celada
Self-Published
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
This Is War: A Decade of Conflict: Photographs
G Editions
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Desire Lines / Lara Shipley
Overlapse
2022 Winner and Finalists / Traditional Category
Winner:
Multi Artist / Multi Author / Multi Publisher
Maryam Ashrafi: Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets
Hemeria
Finalists:
Exhibition Catalogue
Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Exhibition Catalogue
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography
Radius Books
Exhibition Catalogue
Boris Mikhailov From “Blau Horse” till now days
Morel / Mep
First
Sapeurs Ladies and Gentlemen of the Congo / Tariq Zaidi
KEHRER
First
The Truth is in the Soil / Ioanna Sakellaraki
GOST Books
First
sonora / Scott B. Davis
Radius Books
Limited Edition
Division Street / Robert Gumpert
Dewi Lewis Publishing
Multi Artist / Multi Author / Multi Publisher
Rising among ruins, Dancing amid bullets / Maryam Ashrafi
Hemeria
Multi Artist / Multi Author / Multi Publisher
Waves / Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
Radius Books
Other
Midwest Materials / Julie Blackmon
Radius Books
Other
Goran Tomaševic
Edition Lammerhuber
Single Subject
SPIN / Yusuke Takagi
L’Artiere
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Personal Ties — Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn / Amy Touchette
Schilt Publishing & Gallery
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Sin Salida (No Way Out) / Tariq Zaidi
GOST Books
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Sognarium / Helô Mello
Foto Editorial
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Mika Sperling: Mother Tongue / Mika Sperling
KERBER
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
The New Black West: Photographs from America’s Only Touring Black Rodeo / Gabriela Hasbun
Chronicle Books
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Big Fence / Pitcairn Island / Rhiannon Adam
BLOW UP PRESS
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Media Archaeology / Jennifer West
Radius Books
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Spin Club Stories / Astrid Reischwitz
KEHRER
2022 Winner and Finalists / Independent Category
Winner:
First
Diego Ibarra Sánchez: The Phoenician Collapse
FotoEvidence Press and Ediciones Universidad de San Jorge
Finalists:
First
Puberty / Laurence Philomene
Yoffy Press
First
Out of Place / Bas Losekoot
KEHRER
First
GINGANIUMERU -Release into the galaxy- / Kenta Nakamura
Gap4 Publishing
First
The Phoenician Collapse / Diego Ibarra Sánchez
FotoEvidence Press
First
PREDIO / Javier Álvarez
Buen Lugar
First
INSURRECTION / Nate Gowdy
Pigeon Editions
Intersectional
Impermanence / Kenro Izu
Veritas Editions
Limited Editions
LIFEWORK / George Tice
Veritas Editions
Multi Artist / Multi Author / Multi Publisher
NORTH LINE / Fyodor Telkov and Sergey Poteryaev
Snowfox Works
Other
Summer’s Almost Gone / Summer’s Almost Gone
Ediciones Posibles
Other
Shooting the Tiger / Xiaoxiao Xu
The Eriskay Connection
Proposal / Prototype
, te quiere, mamá / Bárbara Traver
Proposal / Prototype
BULLET / Marco Marzocchi
Self-Published / Handmade
Samizdat / Roberto Aguirrezabala
Self-Published / Handmade
A Wounded Landscape – bearing witness to the Holocaust / Marc Wilson
Twotwo Press
Self-Published / Handmade
SACRED NILE / Chester Higgins
March Forth Imprint
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
In-A-Gadda-Da-England / Edward Thompson
Flying Camera Publishing
Self-Published / Handmade
I Have Been Here Before / Laila Nahar
Self-Published / Handmade
Loss / Katerina Motylova
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Eclipse / Rose Marie Cromwell
2021 Winner and Finalists / Traditional Category
Winner:
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
William Eggleston: The Outlands
Steidl
Finalists:
Exhibition Catalogue
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Paris Revisited
Thames & Hudson
Exhibition Catalogue
Edited by Omar Kholeif: Art in the Age of Anxiety
MOREL / Sharjah Art Foundation
First
Yukari Chikura: ZAIDO
Steidl
First
Stefen Chow and Huiyi Lin: The Poverty Line
Lars Müller Publishers/Actes Sud
First
Tomas Van Houtryve: Lines And Lineage
Radius Books
First
David Billet and Ian Kline: Rabbit / Hare
Deadbeat Club Press
First
Michael Sherwin: Vanishing Points
Kehrer Verlag
First
Anja Engelke: Room 125
Kerber
Intersectional
Antoine d’Agata: Francis Bacon
The Eyes Publishing
Intersectional
Debi Cornwall: Necessary Fictions
Radius Books
Limited Edition
Thana Faroq: I don’t recognize me in The Shadows
Lecturis
Limited Edition
Thomas Kellner: The Big Picture
Seltmann Publishers
Reissue
John Willis: Views from the Reservation: A New Edition
George F. Thompson Publishing
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
William Eggleston: The Outlands
Steidl
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Jo Ractliffe: Photographs 1980s – now
The Walther Collection and Steidl Verlag
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Anastasia Samoylova: Flood Zone
Steidl
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Matt Black: American Geography: A Reckoning with a Dream
Thames & Hudson
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Ed Kashi: Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter To Photography
Kehrer Verlag
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Mona Kuhn: Works
Thames & Hudson
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Rebecca Norris Webb: Night Calls
Radius Books
2021 Winner and Finalists / Independent Category
Winner:
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Donna Ferrato: Holy
powerHouse Books
Finalists:
First
“Becoming Sisters; Women Photography Collectives & Organizations” / This collective manifesto features 40 international women and non-binary collectives and 98 women-identified and non-binary photographers.
Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA)
First
Will Harris: You can call me Nana
Overlapse
First
Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley: Devil’s Promenade
Overlapse
First
Federico Rios Escobar: VERDE
Raya Editorial
First
Kanta Nomura: The Yoshida Dormitory Students’ History
REMINDERS PHOTOGRAPHY STRONGHOLD
First
Sarah Pabst: Morning Song
Raya Editorial
Intersectional
Nicola Lo Calzo: Binidittu
L’Artiere
Intersectional
Muhammad Fadli: The Banda Journal
Jordan, jordan Édition
Intersectional
Roger Ballen: The Earth Will Come to Laugh and Feast
powerHouse Books
Multi Artist / Multi Author / Multi Publisher
Primal Sight / Edited by Efrem Zelony-Mindell. This collection includes the work of 146 different artists.
Gnomic Book
Other
Heleen Peeters: Horse
The Eriskay Connection
Proposal / Prototype
Kelsey Sucena: Paralytic States
Self-Published
Self-Published / Handmade
Two Thousand Words / Anonymous, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 during the Prague Spring
Roberto Aguirrezabala (Self-Published)
Self-Published / Handmade
Kirsty Mackay: The Fish That Never Swam
Self-Published
Self-Published / Handmade
Soumya Sankar Bose: Where the Birds never sing
Red Turtle Photobook / Self-Published
Self-Published / Handmade
Miki Hasegawa: YOU AND ME everyday everywhere everytime
Self-Published
Self-Published / Handmade
Rafael Fabres: Cafuné
Self-Published
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Theo Elias: Red / January 2021
Self-Published
Single Artist / Single Author / Single Publisher
Donna Ferrato: Holy
powerHouse Books
Zine
Gil Rigoulet, Jean-Marc Armani, Laurence Kourcia, Wilfrid Esteve, Carole Bellaiche, Marvin Bonheur, Gilles Larvor, Pablo Baquedano, and Alexa Brunet: REVERS éditions zines
REVERS éditions
2020 Winner and Finalists / Traditional Category
Winner:
Intersectional
Antwaun Sargent: The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art And Fashion
Aperture
Finalists:
Exhibition Catalogue
Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography
The Walther Collection and Steidl
Exhibition Catalogue
Aenne Biermann. Photographer
Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess AG, Zürich, Schweiz
Exhibition Catalogue
Henri Cartier-Bresson: China 1948-1949, 1958
Thames & Hudson
Exhibition Catalogue
Viewpoints: Photographs from the Howard Greenberg Collection
MFA Publications
First
East of Nowhere
Thames & Hudson
First
Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph
Aperture and Documentary Arts
First
Sleep Creek
Void Photo
Intersectional
The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion
Aperture
Intersectional
Aya
Editorial RM
Limited Edition
Before . Easter . After
Taschen
Multi Artist
Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent
Thames & Hudson
Multi Artist
Imagine: Reflections on Peace
Spark/Hemeria
Multi Author
To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes
Aperture and Peabody Museum Press
Other
AUTOPORTRAIT
The Walther Collection and Steidl
Single Author
Girl Pictures
Aperture
Single Author
Ilmatar
MANDARKE
Single Author
Woman Go No’Gree
RM / Images Vevey
Single Author
The Tourist
André Frère Éditions
Single Author
The Trap
Hatje Cantz
Single Author
Side Walk
Hatje Cantz Verlag
2020 Winner and Finalists / Independent Category
Winner:
Exhibition Catalogue
Michael Jang, Sandra Phillips, Erik Kessels, Kingston Trinder: Who Is Michael Jang?
Atelier Éditions
Finalists:
Exhibition Catalogue
Who Is Michael Jang?
Atelier Éditions
Exhibition Catalogue
Trine Søndergaard: 203 Works
The Gothenburg Museum of Art & Fabrikbooks
Exhibition Catalogue
Chechnya. War. Daily life.
Krista Photogallery, The Lumiere brothers Center for Photography, Maxim Marmur
Exhibition Catalogue
African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other
Schilt Publishing and FotoFest Inc.
First
Knit Club
TBW Books
First
Performance Review
Minor Matters
First
Attention Servicemember
Red Hook Editions
First
Some Kind Of Heavenly Fire
Setanta Books
First
He Threw the Last Punch Too Hard
FotoEvidence Press
Handmade
Este Lado / This Side
Self-Published
Intersectional
LIKE
Gnomic Book
Intersectional
John Cage: A Mycological Foray
Atelier Éditions
Limited Edition
Rave
Skylark Editions
Other
Omen. Phantasmagoria at the Farm Security Administration Archive. 1935-1944
Gato Negro Ediciones
Other
Watering my horse by a spring at the foot of the Long Wall
The Eriskay Connection
Prototype
The Quickening
Self-Published
Self Published
Lost Summer
Self-Published
Self Published
Midnight at the Crossroads
This Book Is True
Self Published
The Black Yearbook
Self-Published
Self Published
DOUBLEPAGES_1 and 2, 2019 Two issues in a grey cardboard box
UND EINS
2019 Winner and Finalists / Traditional Category
Winner:
Single Author
Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply
University of Texas Press
Finalists:
Exhibition Catalogue
Diane Arbus A Box of Ten Photographs
Smithsonian American Art Museum and Aperture
First
CAESURA the duration of a sigh
KEHRER Verlag
Intersectional
Be Hers Be Mine
Kehrer Publishing Heidelberg
Limited Edition
67/11
EWS Press
Multi-Author
MAGNUM CHINA
Thames & Hudson
Other
Lifestyle
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH
Other
Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View
Fw-Books
Other
RongRong’s Diary – Beijing East Village
The Walther Collection and Steidl
Reissue
Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park
Radius Books and Yossi Milo
Single Author
Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade
Thames & Hudson
Single Author
Christopher Street 1976
STANLEY/BARKER
Single Author
The Heights
Aperture
Single Author
Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply
University of Texas Press
Single Author
Arnold Newman: One Hundred
Radius Books and Howard Greenberg Gallery
2019 Winner and Finalists / Independent Category
Winner:
Limited Edition
Zora J Murff: At No Point In Between
Dais Books
Finalists:
Exhibition Catalogue
Go Down Moses
Candor Arts / Museum of Contemporary Photography
First
El Libro Supremo de la Suerte (The Supremo Book of Luck)
TIS Books and Light Work
Handmade
what Shod I Be?!!!!
Self-Published
Intersectional
Sealegs
Joshua Tarplin and GHP
Limited Edition
Zora J Murff: At No Point In Between
Dais Books
Multi-Artist
Women of Kuwait
DayLight Book
Multi-Artist
Tamar, Where Are You?
bt:st verlag, Andreas Oetker-Kast
Multi-Author
Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity
House of Oktober
Other
East Harlem: The Postwar Years
powerHouse Books
Proposal
Oil & Moss
igortereshkov
Prototype
3804 Days
Patrick Junker
Self-Published
M.O.O.N Mysterious Orbital Object Non-identified
Self-Published
Self-Published
Cicatriz Blanca
Guilherme Pucci
Single Author
Landfall
TBW Books
Zine
Charlotte by Sunny
Self-Published
Zine
Seasonal Blues, V1
Little Oak Press
Zine
Beyond the Darkness
Ion Printing
2018 Winner and Finalists / Traditional Category
Winner:
Paul D’Amato
Here/Still/Now, Kehrer Verlag
Finalists:
Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs
Aperture and the Smithsonian American Art Museum
66 photographers
Iran, année 38, Textuel, Arte Editions
Debi Cornwall
Welcome to Camp America, Radius Books
Victoria Will
Borne Back, Peanut Press
João Pina
46750, FotoEvidence (For the english edition)
JH Engström
Revoir, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
Juergen Teller, Ute und Werner Mahler, Pari Dukovic, Brigitte Lacombe, and Paolo Pellegrin
Juergen Teller, Ute und Werner Mahler, Pari Dukovic, Brigitte Lacombe, Paolo Pellegrin, Kerber
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado, Radius Books
Paul Child
France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child, Thames & Hudson
David Granick
The East End in Colour 1960-1980, Hoxton Mini Press
Jérôme Brunet
Into The Light: The Music Photography of Jérôme Brunet, Insight Editions
Harry Benson
RFK: A PhotographersJournal, powerHouse
Paul D’Amato
Here/Still/Now, Kehrer Verlag
2018 Winner and Finalists / Independent Category
Winner:
Adriana Monsalve and Arlene Mejorado
Femme Frontera, Homie House Press
Finalists:
Ali Arkady, Aram Karim, Bnar Sardar, SeivanM. Salim, Rawsht Twana, Hawre Khalid, Twana Abdullah, Dario Bosio, and Sebastian Meyer
Over My Eyes, DARST PROJECTS
Daniel Castro Garcia
FOREIGNER: Collected Writings 2017, John Radcliffe Studio
Mariah Karson
AMERICAN LEGION, Self-Published
Shawn Bush
Between Gods and Animals, Self-Published
Pascale Georgiev
An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour, Atelier Éditions
Emi Anrakuji
MISHO, SHINTO
Guido Guidi, Jason Fulford, Gregory Halpern, and Viviane Sassen
TBW Books Annual Series No. 6, TBW Books
Adriana Monsalve and Arlene Mejorado
Femme Frontera, Homie House Press
Ingo Rasp
Alpine Strukturen – Edition Two, Self-Published
Larry Fink
The Polarities, L’Artiere
Mike Osborne
Federal Triangle
James Rodriguez
Land of Trees
Mike Osborne
Monopoly
Eduard J. Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Gertrude Käsebier, James Craig Annan,and etc.
Camera Work Numbers 1 to 50, Pierre Vreyen
Ksenia Sidorova
Simplex, Self-Published
David Magee
Outside, Concentric Editions
Res
Towers of Thanks, Loose Joints
Joachim Hildebrand
Wild West, KEHRER Verlag
2017 Winner and Finalists / Traditional Category
Winner:
Single Author
Mark Peterson
Political Theatre, Steidl
Finalists:
Exhibition Catalogue
Magnum Manifesto
Thames & Hudson
Exhibition Catalogue
Slides. The History of Projected Photography
Musée de l’Elysée & Editions Noir sur Blanc, Lausanne
First
Zackary Canepari
REX, Contrasto
First
Paula Bronstein
Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear
University of Texas Press
Intersectional
Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
Slant Rhymes, La Fabrica
Limited Edition
KINO Seido
Touch the forest, touched by the forest.
Akaaka Art Publishing Inc.
Multi-Artist
Photographers of Dronestagram
Dronescapes, Thames & Hudson
Multi-Author
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
Abrams Books
Other
Tom Atwood, Kings & Queens in Their Castles
Damiani
Proposal
Chi-Kwon Choi, The Truth
Prototype
Peter Steinhauer, Cocoons
Powerhouse Books
Self-Published
Ellen Korth, Charkow
Single Author
Peter Bauza, Copacabana Palace
Edition Lammerhuber
Single Author
Mark Peterson
Political Theatre, Steidl
2017 Winners and Finalists / Independent Category
Winners:
Self-Published
Tianqiutao Chen
The Last Post (tied) Self-Published
Tianqiutao Chen
The Last Post (tied) Self-Published
Amy Elkins
Black is the Day, Black is the Night (tied)
Finalists:
Exhibition Catalogue
Jo Ann Chaus, Sweetie & Hansom
Self-Published
First
Zora Murff, Corrections
Aint-Bad Editions
Handmade
Shawn Bush, A Golden State
Self-Published
Intersectional
Barry Stone, Daily, In A Nimble Sea
Silas Finch
Limited Edition
Matt Eich, I Love You, I’m Leaving
ceiba editions
Multi-Artist
TBW Books Series No. 5
TBW Books
Multi-Author
Frank Cancian, Lacedonia: An Italian Town, 1957
Self-Published
Proposal
Alex Oliver, WILDE DOGS – The rules of life according to Oscar Wilde
Prototype
Kris Vervaeke, House Full of Gold
Reissue
Nicolo´ Degiorgis, PEAK
Rorhof
Self-Published
Amy Elkins
Black is the Day, Black is the Night
Self-Published
Kyrre Lien, The Internet Warriors
Self-Published
Tianqiutao Chen
The Last Post
Single Author
Sascha Kraus, Forthright – Stronger than a weapon
Forthright Publishing
Single Author
Fran Antmann, Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams
Nirala Publications
Zine
Zackary Canepari, When I step in the light, I shine.