Co-founded in November 2012 by Paris Photo and the Aperture Foundation, the Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography.

Paris Photo and Aperture are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the evolving narrative of photography. Now in its twelfth year, the awards recognize excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year.

After receiving 940 books from fifty-nine countries, the jury for the shortlist gathered to make the selection of the works below.

The 2024 PhotoBook Award winners will be announced during Paris Photo on Friday, November 8, at 3:00 p.m. (CET).

PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR
This prize is awarded to the photographer(s)/artist(s) and publisher(s) responsible for the photobook judged to be the best of the year. 10 books from this category have been selected for the shortlist, and they will be presented to the final jury for selection and exhibited during Paris Photo.
Taysir Batniji » Disruptions Loose Joints Publishing, Marseille, France / London
Cai Dongdong » Passing By Beijing Cai Dongdong Studio, Beijing
Lia Darjes » Plates I–XXXI Chose Commune, Marseille, France
Jessica Ingram » We Are Carver Self-published, Dallenwil, Switzerland
Akihiko Okamura » Les souvenirs des autres (The Memories of Others) Atelier EXB, Paris
César Rodríguez » Hoja Dorada KWY, Lima, Peru
Rosalind Fox Solomon » A Woman I Once Knew MACK, London
Peter van Agtmael » Look at the U.S.A.: A Diary of War and HomeLook at the U.S.A.: A Diary of War and Home Thames & Hudson, London
Awoiska van der Molen » The Humanness of Our Lonely Selves Fw:Books, Amsterdam
Carmen Winant » The Last Safe Abortion SPBH Editions, London

FIRST PHOTOBOOK
A $10,000 prize is awarded to the photographer(s)/artist(s) whose first finished, publicly available photobook is judged to be the best of the year. 20 books from this category have been selected for the shortlist, and they will be presented to the final jury for selection and exhibited during Paris Photo.
Hady Barry » i am (not) your mother Self-published, Penumbra Foundation, New York
Ciro Battiloro » Silence Is a Gift Chose Commune, Marseille, France
Angeniet Berkers » Lebensborn: Birth Politics in the Third Reich The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Claire Cocano » Rue Désiré Chevalier Self-published, Paris
Barbara Debeuckelaere » ’Om (Mother) The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Simone Engelen » 27 Drafts Fw:Books, Amsterdam
Janick Entremont » If Time Does Not End Self-published, Berlin
Ismail Ferdous » Sea Beach Imageless, Shanghai
Toma Gerzha » Control Refresh The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands
Virginia Hanusik » Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, New York
Abdulhamid Kircher » Rotting from Within Loose Joints Publishing, Marseille, France / London
Hassan Kurbanbaev » One Head and Thousand Years Art Paper Editions, Ghent, Belgium
Srinivas Kuruganti » Pictures in My Hand of a Boy I Still Resemble Self-published / Marigold Books, Delhi, India
Nicola Moscelli » Dead End Penisola Edizioni and Antiga Edizioni, Crocetta del Montello, Italy
RaMell Ross » Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body MACK, London
Melissa Shook » Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973 TBW Books, Oakland, California
Ngadi Smart » Wata Na Life Loose Joints Publishing, Marseille, France / London
Tsai Ting Bang » Born from the Same Root Self-published, Taipei
Rawsht Twana » Twana’s Box: The Photographic Life of Twana Abdullah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 1974–1992 Fraglich Publishing, Bregenz, Austria
Róisín White » Lay Her Down Upon Her Back Witty Books, Turin, Italy, Landskrona Foto, Sweden, and Breadfield Press, Malmö, Sweden

Photography Catalogue of the Year »
Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering Katia Reich, Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany
Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950–Present Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich, 10×10 Photobooks, New York
Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm—Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York
Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain Joy Gregory, editor, and Taous Dahmani, associate editor Autograph and MACK, London
Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Lines and Bodies Diane Dufour and Mei Asakura, Atelier EXB and LE BAL, Paris