Paris Photo and Aperture are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards—an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the narrative of photography. Now in its fourteenth year, the awards recognize excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year.

The shortlisted books will be exhibited at Paris Photo, open to the public from November 11 through November 15, followed by an international tour, including in Dublin at PhotoIreland, December 2026, and other venues to be announced.

On Thursday, November 12, a final jury composed of five members will meet in Paris to select the winners for all three prizes, which will be revealed on Friday, November 13, at 3:00 p.m. (CET), at a ceremony at Paris Photo, and announced on Aperture.org and Parisphoto.com.

Below, see the thirty-five selected titles for the 2026 PhotoBook Awards shortlist.

PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR

 

This prize is awarded to the photographer(s) or artist(s) and the publisher of the photobook judged to be the best of the year.

 

Michele Borzoni and Rocco Rorandelli » Silent Springs Loose Joints Publishing

 

Bieke Depoorter » The Beds I Slept In Hannibal Books, Antwerp, Belgium

 

Bérangère Fromont » République Chose Commune, Marseille, France

 

Roger Grasas » WALLS: A Visual Study on Border Geographies Institut de les Desigualtats

 

Nick Haymes » Chronograph SPBH Editions, London

 

Takashi Homma » This Is Not My Cat Nieves, Zurich, and Perimeter Editions, Melbourne

 

Sohrab Hura » Snow MACK, London

 

Zhu Mo » Undercurrents JZZP, Ningbo, China

 

Keisha Scarville » Passports, 2012–2025 MACK, London

 

Newsha Tavakolian » And They Laughed at Me Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany

FIRST PHOTOBOOK
A $10,000 prize is awarded to the photographer(s) or artist(s) whose first finished, publicly available photobook is judged to be the best of the year.

Ivan Anisimov » Pants on Top of Shoes Kult Books, Stockholm

 

Amparo Baquerizas » Gauchito Querido Editorial RM, México and Barcelona

 

Miranda Barnes » Social Season Important Flowers, London

 

Sara Bennett » Looking Inside: Women with Life Sentences Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg

 

Nata Drachinskaya » Binom BLOW UP PRESS, Warsaw, and Rencontres d’Arles, France

 

Franco Dupuy » Cruising Diaries Set Margins, Eindhoven, Netherlands

 

Jakob Ganslmeier and Ana Zibelnik » If a Flower .. Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany

 

Jesse Glazzard » The Sound of Dirt and Beauty SPBH Editions, London

 

Ma Hailun » Üruklyn Jiazazhi, Ningbo, China

 

Moeko Ishiguro » Notation(s) Self-published, Tokyo

 

Adél Koleszár » Only Have Faith Solamente Ten Fe Art Paper Editions, Ghent, Belgium

 

Jeremy Liebman » Coincidence Apartamento Publishing S.L., Barcelona

 

Augustin Lignier » Turning Point Art Paper Editions, Ghent, Belgium

 

João Linneu » JJ VFF VV Void, Athens

 

Yufan Lu » Make Me Beautiful Editorial RM, México ...

 

Swan Moon » Swan Moon’s Swan Moon TBW Books, Oakland, California

 

Peter Rauch » 2, 3 Perimeter Editions, Melbourne

 

Allie Tsubota » Dead Letter Room The Eriskay Connection, Breda

 

Joël van Houdt » Afghanistanism Self-published, London

 

Farren van Wyk » Mixedness Is My Mythology Fw:Books, Amsterdam

Photography Catalogue of the Year »

 

This prize is awarded to the publication, publisher, and/or organizing institution responsible for the exhibition catalog or museum publication judged to be the best of the year.

 

A Kind of Paradise: Artistic Counter-Narratives to Colonial-Era Photography Nanina Guyer, Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany

 

Ecos de la Memoria (Echoes of Memory) Marta Martín Núñez, Editorial RM, México and Barcelona, and Campgràfic Editors, Valencia, Spain

 

Ghana! Rêver l’indépendance, 1957–1976 Damarice Amao, Atelier EXB, Paris

 

L Is for Look: Children’s Photobooks Anne Lacoste and Rose Durr, Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany

 

More Anuschka Blommers, Niels Schumm, and Julie Peeters