THE FIRST PHOTOBOOK PRIZEA $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 PRIZEThis 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 PRIZEAwarded 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 ComarHow was your dream?Mörel Books, London

Luis CorzoPasaco, 1996Kult Books, Stockholm

Star FelizWhen Eye LandPrinted Matter Inc., New York

Liss FenwickHumpty DoomBad News Books, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Christopher Gregory-RiveraEl Gobierno Te OdiaSelf-published, Penumbra Foundation, New York

Steve HarriesOctopusRVB Books, Paris

Samuel JamesNightairsFw:Books, Amsterdam

Clifford Prince KingOrange GroveTIS Books, New York

Anu KumarGharPerimeter Editions, Melbourne

Jan Mammey and Falk MesserschmidtStatues Also DieKodoji Press, Leipzig, Germany

Alejandro “Luperca” MoralesEl Retrato De Tu Ausencia (The Portrait of Your Absence)Kult Books, Stockholm, and Los Sumergidos, New York/ Mexico

Ronit PoratHunting in TimeSternthal Books, Montreal, Quebec

Lúa RibeiraSubida al CieloDalpine, Madrid

César RodríguezMontaña RojaKWY, Lima, Peru

Keisha Scarvillelick of tongue, rub of finger, on soft woundMACK Books, London

Kristof Titeca, ed.Nasser Road / Political Posters in UgandaThe Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands

Bindi VoraMountain of SaltPerimeter Editions, Melbourne

Carla WilliamsTenderTBW Books, Oakland, California

Alice WongPainting PhotographsTBW Books, Oakland, California

Yao Yuan1 2 3 2 1Self-published, Antwerp, Belgium

PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR

Vince AlettiThe DrawerSPBH Editions, London, United Kingdom

Frédérique Bangerter, ed.Archivo Nómada Vol. 1: 1975-1981Alberto García-AlixEditorial Cabeza de Chorlito, Madrid

Felipe Romero BeltránDialectLoose Joints, Marseille, France

Lynne Cohen and Marina GadonneixObservatories/Laboratories and Laboratories/ObservatoriesAtelier EXB / Centre Pompidou, Paris

Samuel GratacapBilateralPoursuite, Arles, France

Mikiko HaraSmall MythsChose Commune, Marseille, France

Thomas Locke HobbsL.A. VeduteThe Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands

Bharat SikkaThe SapperFw:Books, Amsterdam

Hristina TashevaFar Away from Home: The Voices, the Body and the PeripherySelf-published, Bodegraven, Netherlands

Ruth van BeekThe Oldest ThingVan Zoetendaal Publishers, Amsterdam

PHOTOGRAPHY CATALOG OF THE YEAR

Casa Susanna: L’histoire du premier réseau transgenre américain, 1959–1968Isabelle Bonnet and Sophie HackettEditions Textuel, Paris

Japanese Photography Magazines: 1880s to 1980sRyuichi Kaneko, Masako Toda, Ivan VartanianGoliga, Tokyo

Källström-FäldtKlara Källström and Thobias FäldtVerlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Köning, Gothenburg, Sweden

Recaptioning Congo: African Stories and Colonial PicturesSandrine ColardLannoo Publishers, Tielt, Belgium

The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory ProjectDiwas Raja Kc and NayanTara Gurung KakshapatiNepal Picture Library / photo.circle, Kathmandu, Nepal