2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist Announced
On Friday, September 21, Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation announced the Shortlist for the 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, celebrating the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with three major categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalogue of the Year.
First PhotoBook: A $10,000 prize will be awarded to the photographer(s)/artist(s) whose first finished, publicly available photobook is judged to be the best of the year. Twenty books from this category have been selected for the Shortlist, and will be presented to the jury for the final selection and exhibited during Paris Photo.
PhotoBook of the Year: This prize will be awarded to the photographer(s)/artist(s) and publisher responsible for the photobook judged to be the best of the year. Ten books from this category have been selected for the Shortlist, and will be presented to the jury for the final selection and exhibited during Paris Photo.
Photography Catalogue of the Year: This prize will be awarded to the publication, publisher, and/or organizing institution responsible for the exhibition catalogue or museum publication judged to be the best of the year. Seven books from this category have been selected for the Shortlist, and will be presented to the jury for the final selection and exhibited during Paris Photo.
This year’s Shortlist selection was made by a jury comprising: Lucy Gallun (associate curator in the Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York), Kristen Lubben (executive director, Magnum Foundation, New York), Yasufumi Nakamori (incoming senior curator of international art [photography], Tate Modern, London), Lesley A. Martin (creative director, Aperture Foundation, and publisher of The PhotoBook Review) and Christoph Wiesner (artistic director, Paris Photo).
The jurying of the Awards takes place in two stages. The first part took place from September 19 to September 21, a three-day-process that involved reviewing more than 980 submissions to select the shortlisted books in all categories. “The varied approaches and high level of experience that each of the jury members bring to the table leads to a process of selection that is very intense; a rigorous exchange of ideas about the many incredible books being made today,” says Christoph Wiesner. “The best photobooks can offer a more in-depth, heightened experience of an artist’s work, augmenting and expanding how we encounter that work in exhibitions or online.”
A final jury in Paris—comprising Hervé Digne (president of Manifesto and the Odeon Circle), Martha Kirszenbaum (curator), Kevin Moore (curator), Azu Nwagbogu (director of African Artists’ Foundation and LagosPhoto Festival, Nigeria) and Batia Suter (artist)—will select the winners for all three prizes, which will be revealed at Paris Photo on November 9, 2018. All shortlisted and winning titles will then be profiled in the fall 2018 issue of The PhotoBook Review, a biannual publication that accompanies Aperture magazine, and exhibited at Paris Photo and Aperture Gallery in New York, touring thereafter.
Since the announcement of the 2017 winners last November, last year’s shortlisted titles have been exhibited in multiple venues internationally, including Lithuania, Germany, Moscow, Switzerland, and Italy.
The PhotoBook Awards 2018 Shortlist
Photography Catalogue of the Year
Blind Date Exhibition
Lieko Shiga
T&M Projects, Tokyo
Body Against Body: The Battle of Images, from Photography to Live Streaming
Thyago Nogueira, ed., Bárbara Wagner, Garapa Collective, Jonathas de Andrade, Letícia Ramos, Mídia Ninja, and Sofia Borges
Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil
The Land in Between
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
MACK, London
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sarah Greenough and Sarah Kennel
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in association with Abrams, New York
A View of a Room
Susan Meiselas
Here Press, London
PhotoBook of the Year
Laia Abril
On Abortion
Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport, England
Nina Berman and Kimberly Stevens
An autobiography of Miss Wish
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
Dawoud Bey
Seeing Deeply
University of Texas Press, Austin
Sophie Calle
Parce que
?ditions Xavier Barral, Paris
Alexandra Catiere
Behind the Glass
Chose Commune, Paris
Masahisa Fukase, Simon Baker, and Tomo Kosuga
Masahisa Fukase
?ditions Xavier Barral, Paris
Sohrab Hura
Look It’s Getting Sunny Outside!!!
Ugly Dog (Self-published), Delhi, India
Raymond Meeks
Halfstory Halflife
Chose Commune, Paris
Carmen Winant
My Birth
Self Publish, Be Happy Editions, London
Daisuke Yokota
Inversion
Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Tokyo
Jurors’ Special Mention
Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Originally published 1955; reissue in paperback
First Print Press, New York
First PhotoBook
Edén Bernal
Exilios (Exiles)
Inframundo, Mexico City
Nacho Caravia
Mamá
Self-published, Barcelona, Spain
M L Casteel
American Interiors
Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport, England
John Edmonds
Higher
Capricious Publishing, New York
Matthew Genitempo
Jasper
Twin Palms Publishing, Santa Fe
Julie Glassberg
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this book has no title (Bike Kill)
Ceiba Editions, Siena, Italy
Soham Gupta
Angst
AKINA Books, London
Yann Haeberlin
Tina(?)
Self-published, Geneva, Switzerland
Esther Hovers
False Positives
Fw:Books, Amsterdam
Maria Kapajeva
You can call him another man
Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Mariken Kramer
The Eyes That Fix You in a Formulated Phrase
Multipress, Oslo, Norway
Pixy Liao
Experimental Relationship Vol. 1
Jiazazhi Press, Ningbo, China
Margo Ovcharenko
Country of Women
Empty Stretch, Moscow
Nicolas Polli
Ferox, The Forgotten Archives (1976-2010)
Ciao Press, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Skinnerboox, Jesi, Italy
Laurence Rasti
There Are No Homosexuals in Iran
Edition Patrick Frey, Zürich, Switzerland
Nick Sethi
Khichdi (Kitchari)
Dashwood Books, New York
Clara de Tezanos
Piedra-Padre, Universo
Self-published, Guatemala City
Jo Ann Walters
Wood River Blue Pool and Blue Pool Cecilia
Image Text Ithaca, New York
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
One Wall a Web
Roma Publications, Amsterdam
Masaki Yamamoto
GUTS
Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo
