The 2018 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Aperture and Paris Photo are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2018 PhotoBook Awards.
The shortlist selection was made by Lucy Gallun, associate curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art; Kristen Lubben, executive director of the Magnum Foundation; Yasufumi Nakamori, PhD, incoming senior curator of international art (photography) at Tate Modern, London; Lesley A. Martin, creative director of Aperture Foundation and publisher of The PhotoBook Review; and Christoph Wiesner, artistic director of Paris Photo.
Established in 2012, the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with three major categories: First PhotoBook, Photography Catalogue of the Year, and PhotoBook of the Year.
First PhotoBook
Edén Bernal
Exilios (Exiles)
Publisher: Inframundo, Mexico City
Nacho Caravia
Mamá
Publisher: Self-published, Barcelona, Spain
M L Casteel
American Interiors
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport, England
John Edmonds
Higher
Publisher: Capricious Publishing, New York
Matthew Genitempo
Jasper
Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe
Julie Glassberg
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this book has no title (Bike Kill)
Publisher: ceiba editions, Siena, Italy
Soham Gupta
Angst
Publisher: AKINA Books, London
Yann Haeberlin
Tina(?)
Publisher: Self-published, Geneva, Switzerland
Esther Hovers
False Positives
Publisher: Fw:Books, Amsterdam
Maria Kapajeva
You can call him another man
Publisher: Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Mariken Kramer
The Eyes That Fix You in a Formulated Phrase
Publisher: Multipress, Oslo, Norway
Pixy Liao
Experimental Relationship Vol. 1
Publisher: Jiazazhi Press, Ningbo, China
Margo Ovcharenko
Country of Women
Publisher: Empty Stretch, Moscow
Nicolas Polli
Ferox, The Forgotten Archives (1976–2010)
Publisher: Ciao Press, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Skinnerboox, Jesi, Italy
Laurence Rasti
There Are No Homosexuals in Iran
Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey, Zürich, Switzerland
Nick Sethi
Khichdi (Kitchari)
Publisher: Dashwood Books, New York
Clara de Tezanos
Piedra-Padre, Universo
Publisher: Self-published, Guatemala City
Jo Ann Walters
Wood River Blue Pool and Blue Pool Cecilia
Publisher: Image Text Ithaca, New York
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
One Wall a Web
Publisher: Roma Publications, Amsterdam
Masaki Yamamoto
GUTS
Publisher: Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo
Photography Catalogue of the Year
Blind Date Exhibition
Lieko Shiga
Publisher: 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
Publisher: Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil
The Land in Between
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
Publisher: MACK, London
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sarah Greenough and Sarah Kennel
Publisher: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in association with Abrams, New York
A View of a Room
Susan Meiselas
Publisher: Here Press, London
PhotoBook of the Year
Laia Abril
On Abortion
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport, England
Nina Berman and Kimberly Stevens
An autobiography of Miss Wish
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
Dawoud Bey
Seeing Deeply
Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin
Sophie Calle
Parce que
Publisher: Éditions Xavier Barral, Paris
Alexandra Catiere
Behind the Glass
Publisher: Chose Commune, Paris
Masahisa Fukase, Simon Baker, and Tomo Kosuga
Masahisa Fukase
Publisher: Éditions Xavier Barral, Paris
Sohrab Hura
Look It’s Getting Sunny Outside!!!
Publisher: Ugly Dog (Self-published), Delhi, India
Raymond Meeks
Halfstory Halflife
Publisher: Chose Commune, Paris
Carmen Winant
My Birth
Publisher: Self Publish, Be Happy Editions, London
Daisuke Yokota
Inversion
Publisher: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Tokyo
Jurors’ Special Mention
The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
Originally published 1955; reissued in paperback
Publisher: First Print Press, New York
