Traveling exhibition: Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards

Overview

Paris Photo and Aperture are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards—an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the evolving narrative of photography. Now in its thirteenth year, the awards recognize excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year.

This year, Aperture received over one thousand books from fifty-five countries around the world for the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the evolving narrative of photography. In mid-September, the shortlist jury met in New York for three days of review and deliberation. The international team included Brendan Embser, senior editor, Aperture; Florian Koenigsberger, technologist and photographer; Paul Moakley, executive producer, The New Yorker; Anna Planas, artistic director, Paris Photo; and Keisha Scarville, artist.

The shortlisted books will be exhibited at Paris Photo, open to the public from November 13 through November 16, followed by an international tour, including in New York at Printed Matter, in January 2026, and Leipzig Photo Festival in March. Here is a look inside the thirty-six selected titles for the 2025 PhotoBook Awards shortlist. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners, which will take place on Friday, November 14, at 3 p.m.at the Balcon de l’Horloge at the Grand Palais.

Please, see the thirty-seven selected titles for the 2025 PhotoBook Awards shortlist.