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Photobook awards

Explore books recognised across awards and years. Follow each book and its makers into the library.

Coverage: Paris Photo–Aperture, 2020–2025; Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards, 2025–2026; PHotoESPAÑA, 2025–2026. Verified winners and special mentions. Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award: winners and complete shortlists, 2025–2026. Prix Nadar: winners, 2024–2025. Fotobus Library Award: ten equal winners, 2026. Swedish Photobook Prize: 2024–2026 main-prize winners and nominees, plus Artist Book winners; 16 of 18 books linked. German Photobook Prize: all ten gold medals from the 2025/26 competition (announced 2025); remaining medals, recent cycles and book entries pending. Lucie Photo Book Prize: Traditional and Independent winners, 2024–2025, and all 28 finalists for 2024; missing book entries are being added. 2026 results pending. Images Vevey Book Award: 2025/26 winner and two honourable mentions, awarded to book dummies in 2025; published editions linked where verified. Dummy Award: all ten winners from 2024–2025, including both PBM/MAS recipients; shortlists pending, 2026 winners expected in 2027. LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award: 2024–2026 winners and 2026 special mention; shortlists pending. Maribor Photobook Award: four confirmed 2025 winners; further mentions and shortlists pending verification. FELIFA / La Luminosa: 2025 winner, three jury mentions and 30 other finalists. FotoEvidence: collective winners, 2024 and 2026; the 2026 edition is forthcoming. Other shortlists and longlists are not yet included.

Belfast Photo Festival — PhotoBook Open Submission

Juried PhotoBook Open Submission exhibition selection, with multiple winners each year. Coverage is in progress for 2024–2026: only titles corroborated by artist or publisher evidence are linked; official lists mostly name creators without book titles.

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Dummy Award

International photobook dummy competition, formerly the Kassel Dummy Award. Coverage: all five winners in each of 2024 and 2025, including the PBM/MAS publication-prize recipients. Shortlists remain pending. Winners for the 2026 competition are expected in 2027; no 2026 winner is recorded yet. Published editions are linked only when verified.

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FELIFA / La Luminosa Latin American Publication Prize

2025 coverage: one winning book project, three ordered jury mentions and 30 other finalists. Recognition concerns submitted book dummies; published editions are linked only after verification.

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Fotobus Library Award

The ten equal winning photobooks for 2026. No ranked order. Earlier editions are not yet included; missing catalogue entries are being researched.

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FotoEvidence Book Award

Verified collective winners for 2024 and 2026. No separate 2025 Book Award result is listed by the organiser; the Ukraine Initiative and W Award are separate programmes.

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German Photobook Prize

Initial coverage: all ten gold medals in the completed 2025/26 competition, announced in November 2025. Silver, bronze, other recent cycles and missing books are being added.

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Images Vevey Book Award

A biennial award supporting book dummies and publication projects, separate from the Grand Prix Images Vevey. Coverage: the 2025/26 cycle winner and two honourable mentions, announced in 2025. Linked published editions are distinguished from the awarded dummies. The 2023/24 cycle is queued separately, not relabelled as a 2024 award.

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Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award

Photography winners and complete shortlists for 2025 and 2026. Longlists and Moving Image awards are not included.

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Lucie Photo Book Prize

Traditional and Independent winners for 2024–2025 and all 28 finalists for 2024. Missing book entries are being added; 2025 finalist verification remains in progress. The organiser has not yet announced 2026 winners as checked on 13 October 2026.

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LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award

Publication-support prize presented by Les Rencontres d’Arles and the LUMA Foundation since 2015. Distinct from both the Arles Book Awards and the Dummy Award formerly in Kassel. Coverage: 2024–2026 winners and the 2026 special mention; shortlists pending. Recognition applies to submitted dummies; later published editions are linked only after verification.

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Maribor Photobook Award

Biennial photobook prize organised by The Angry Bat and DEZ. Coverage: four confirmed 2025 winners across the joint Grand Prix, Southeastern Europe and Protest categories. Further mentions and shortlists remain under verification.

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Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards

Established in 2012 by Paris Photo and Aperture, these awards recognise the photobook as a creative form. The principal categories distinguish a first photobook, the photobook of the year, and a photography catalogue. Read each result in its own category: a jury special mention is different from a category win.

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PHotoESPAÑA Book Awards

Verified winners in Creation, Research, Bibliophilia and First Publication for 2025–2026, plus the 2026 special mention. Full shortlists are not yet included.

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Prix Nadar Gens d’images

Winners for 2024 and 2025. Earlier years and the jury’s ten notable books are not yet included.

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Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards

The festival recognises contemporary author projects, historical research, and books combining photographs and text. This archive covers the 2025–2026 winners and special mentions in all three categories. Shortlists and the separate Dummy Book Award are not included.

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Swedish Photobook Prize

Verified main-prize winners and nominees for 2024–2026, plus the separate Artist Book winners. Missing library entries are being researched and added.

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2026

2026 · Winner

Vetur: Frozen Landscapes of Iceland

Patrick Lefèvre

Belfast Photo Festival — PhotoBook Open Submission
Jury recognition

One of the juried PhotoBook Open Submission winners selected for exhibition.

Awards

2026

Hairouna

Journalism Is Not a Crime

Europastrasse

Piedemonte

30 fotogram

2025

Coal Mine, Land Mine, The Body of Mine

The forgotten stories of the ‘Boat Driver’

The Golden Age of Hijacking

Weisses Gold

YoYo no Shiori

, es raro

¿Cómo retratar a una sobreviviente?

¿Dónde termina el árbol y empieza el resto del mundo?

Álbum fundacional – Memoria de una mirada – La Plata 1882-1890

Argentina crisis, crisis, crisis

Blood under the Sundown Light

Cave Dream

El álbum incompleto

El Derrumbe de la Estrella

El goce otro

El Habitante

El secreto de las cosas

El Tetas

En mis sueños el amaranto floreció

Era invierno cuando removimos la tierra

Exilio en Soledad

Hermanas

Incertidumbres

La pérdida

Las citas

Lo que está inmóvil, con el tiempo se cubre de polvo

Los Réfractarios

Mosca de Ciudad

Nightshift

Ofereço meu retrato como lembrança

Otsukare Samba

Paisajes al límite de existir

Pássaros que são Pedras

Paubrasilia

Porque Somos Paredes

Rito

Salvador

Thereza

Un Lugar Común

Danke für alles

Left, Right

We can’t live – without each other

If This Is True, What Else Must Be?

Jag begär krig

2024

fever dream

Hello Italy

Lucky

The Book of the Four Actions

80°05′

American Eden

Artist Volumes Series (Issue 1, Fall 2023)

At Least Until The World Stops Going Round

Egungun: The Spirit Catchers of Benin – Catalogue

Eye Mama

Gulag

HeadStrong: The Women of Rural Uganda

I saw a tree bearing stones in the place of apples and pears

I Still Speak Southern in my Head

Intraccià

JAMAIKA

Lumes