Initiated in November 2012 by Aperture Foundation and Paris Photo, The PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of Photography.
The 2021 PhotoBook Award winners will be announced during Paris Photo on Friday, November 12, 2021.
Three prizes will be awarded in the following categories

THE FIRST PHOTOBOOK PRIZE
Andrea Alessandrini Piccola Russia Witty Books, Turin, Italy
Indu Antony Why can’t bras have buttons? Mazhi Books (self-published), Bangalore, India
Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina CHACO, Buenos Aires
Melba Arellano Carretera Nacional Los Sumergidos, Hudson, New York
Wiosna van Bon Family Stranger Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Deanna Dikeman Leaving and Waving Chose Commune, Marseille, France
Jeano Edwards EverWonderful Self-published, Brooklyn
Nancy Floyd Weathering Time GOST Books, London
Will Harris You Can Call Me Nana Overlapse, London
Jana Hartmann Mastering the Elements Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Joe Johnson Office Hours There There Now, Columbia, Missouri
Tarrah Krajnak El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan Dais Books, Casper, Wyoming
Luke Le What are you looking for? Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, Australia
Kanta Nomura  The Yoshida Dormitory Students’ History Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo
Sasha Phyars-Burgess Untitled Capricious Publishing, New York
Pacifico Silano I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine Loose Joints, Marseille, France
Sebastian Stadler A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think Kodoji Press, Baden, Switzerland
Al J Thompson Remnants of an Exodus Gnomic Book, Portland, Oregon
Eva Veldhoen Play Self-published, Utrecht, Netherlands
Elliott Verdier Reaching for Dawn Dunes, Paris

THE PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE
Farah Al Qasimi Hello Future Capricious Publishing, New York
Jessica Backhaus Cut Outs Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
Alejandro Cartagena Suburban Bus The Velvet Cell, Berlin
Bieke Depoorter Agata Des Palais (self-published), Ghent, Belgium
Isaac Diggs and Edward Hillel Electronic Landscapes: Music, Space ... +KGP, Queens, New York
Muhammad Fadli and Fatris MF The Banda Journal Jordan, jordan Édition, Jakarta, Indonesia
Rahim Fortune I Can’t Stand to See You Cry Loose Joints, Marseille, France
Lora Webb Nichols Encampment, Wyomin Fw:Books, Amsterdam
Gilles Peress Whatever You Say, Say Nothing Steidl, Göttingen, Germany
Vasantha Yogananthan Amma Chose Commune, Marseille, France

THE PHOTOGRAPHY CATALOGUE OF THE YEAR PRIZE
André Kertész: Postcards from Paris Elizabeth Siegel, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Mao Ishikawa Bad Ass and Beauty—One Love T&M Projects, Tokyo
Mirror with a Memory Dan Leers and Taylor Fisch, eds., Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
The New Woman Behind the Camera Andrea Nelson, ed., National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999
Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich, eds., 10×10 Photobooks, New York