Opening Reception for the 2023 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Reception
Opening Reception for the 2023 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Saturday, January 20
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST
Join Aperture and Printed Matter to celebrate the opening of the 2023 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist exhibition.
Now in its eleventh year, Paris Photo and Aperture are excited to present the shortlist for the 2023 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards—a celebration of the photobook’s contributions to the evolving narrative of photography. The award recognizes excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year.
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This year, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards received 961 books from sixty-one countries, including stand-out entries from Nepal, New Zealand, Denmark, and Japan. On September 20–22, 2023, the shortlist jury met in New York for three concentrated days of review and deliberation by an international team: 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; and Anna Planas, artistic director, Paris Photo.
A final jury met in Paris on November 9, 2023, to select this year’s winners. The jury included Laia Abril, artist; Tamara Berghmans, curator, Fotomuseum Antwerpen (FOMU); Alexis Fabry, curator and founder, Toluca Fine Art; Alona Pardo, curator, Barbican; and Mark Sealy, director of Autograph and Professor of Photography Rights and Representation at University of the Arts London.
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Image: Daniel Salemi, The shortlist for the 2023 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards
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