Initiated in November 2012 by Aperture and Paris Photo, The PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of Photography. The thirty-five shortlisted titles will be exhibited at Paris Photo and in an expanded online presentation at aperture.com as well as profiled in a catalog (published by Aperture), to be released at the Fair. The winners will be announced at Paris Photo on November 11th at 3pm.

PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR

Karl Bassil, in collaboration with Negar Azimi and Katia Boyadjian Becoming Van Leo » Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, and Archive Books, Berlin
Mohamed Bourouissa » Périphérique Loose Joints, Marseille, France
Jess T. Dugan » Look at me like you love me MACK, London
LaToya Ruby Frazier » Flint Is Family in Three Acts Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, and The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York
Curran Hatleberg » River’s Dream TBW Books, Oakland, California
Justine Kurland » SCUMB Manifesto MACK, London
Baldwin Lee » Baldwin Lee Hunters Point Press, New York
Tokuko Ushioda » My Husband torch press, Tokyo
Carmen Winant » Arrangements SPBH Editions, London, and Images Vevey, Switzerland
Yelena Yemchuk » УYY Départ Pour l’Image, Milan

FIRST PHOTOBOOK

Hiske Altena Vital Mud Self-published, Amsterdam
Gabriella Angotti-JonesI Just Wanna Surf Mass Books, New York
Florian BachmeierIn Limbo Buchkunst Berlin
Oscar B. Castillo ESOS QUE SABEN (Those who know) Raya Editorial, Manizales, Colombia
Phyllis ChristopherDark Room Book Works, London
Sabiha Çimen HAFIZ Red Hook Editions, New York
Craig Easton Bank Top GOST Books, London
Philippe Jarrigeon PLAY RVB Books, Paris
Hari Katragadda and Shweta Upadhyay I’ll be looking at the moon, but I’ll be seeing you Self-published in association with Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi
Stacy Kranitz As It Was Give(n) to Me Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Youqine Lefèvre The Land of Promises The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Carla Liesching Good Hope MACK, London
Sabelo Mlangeni Isivumelwano Fw:Books, Amsterdam
Marilyn Nance Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos CARA, New York, and Fourthwall Books, Johannesburg
Zuzana Pustaiova One Day Every Day Reflektor (self-published), Vienna / Slovakia
Paola Jiménez Quispe Rules for Fighting (Reglas para pelear) Images Vevey, Switzerland, and Witty Books, Turin, Italy
Yoshinori Saito After the Snowstorm the(M) éditions, Paris, and IBASHO, Antwerp, Belgium
Marc Schroeder Order 7161 The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Patrick Wack Dust André Frère Éditions, Marseille, France
D’Angelo Lovell Williams Contact High MACK, London Photography Catalogue of the Year Another Country: British Documentary Photography since 1945 Gerry Badger Thames & Hudson, London
Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 Makeda Best Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Diane Arbus Documents Max Rosenberg, ed.   David Zwirner Books, New York, and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco