Announcing the 2019 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist Jury

Meet this year’s shortlist jury, featuring Amanda Maddox, Joanna Milter, and Drew Sawyer.

Color image of 2019 PhotoBook Awards Logo and Books

We are happy to announce the jury of the 2019 Paris Photo—Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist:

Amanda Maddox is associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She has curated or cocurated numerous exhibitions, most recently Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story and Dora Maar. Her publications include Thomas Annan: Photographer of Glasgow (Getty, 2017) and Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows (Getty, 2015).

Joanna Milter is the director of photography at the New Yorker, overseeing all photography for the print and digital versions of the magazine, in addition to Photo Booth, the magazine’s photography blog. Previously, Milter spent eleven years as a photo editor at the New York Times Magazine; for the last four of those years, she was the deputy photo editor.

Drew Sawyer is the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, where he recently organized the exhibitions Garry Winogrand: Color and Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha (both 2019). Previously, he served as associate curator of photography at the Columbus Museum of Art.

Lesley A. Martin is the creative director of Aperture Foundation and publisher of The PhotoBook Review. In 2012, she cofounded the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.

Christoph Wiesner is the artistic director of Paris Photo.

Enter the PhotoBook Awards here! Books must arrive at Aperture by September 13, 2019.