Paris Photo 2025 – Aperture PhotoBook Awards

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.



 

Hicham Benohoud » The Classroom Loose Joints Publishing, Marseille, France / London




 

Soumya Sankar Bose » A Discreet Exit Through Darkness & Things We Lost Last Night Auto-published, Red Turtle Photobook and Mandas, Kolkata



 

Pippa Garner » Personal Ads Art Paper Editions, Ghent, Belgium




 

Pia-Paulina Guilmoth » Flowers Drink the River STANLEY/BARKER, London



 

Katherine Hubbard » The Great Room Loose Joints Publishing, Marseille, France / London




 

Edgar Martins » Anton’s Hand Is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He Has a Gung-Ho Finger & a Grief-Stricken Thumb. The Moth House, Bedford, United-Kingdom




 

Jorge Panchoaga » Kalabongó Editorial RM and Musuk Nolte, Barcelona




 

Bharat Sikka » Ripples in the Pond Fw:Books, Amsterdam



 

Éva Szombat » Echo in Delirium Symposion et Everybody Needs Art, Budapest




 

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa » INDEX 2025 Roma Publications, Amsterdam


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.



Eleanora Agostini » A Study on Waitressing Witty Books, Turin, Italy

Genesis Báez » Blue Sun / Sol Azul Capricious Publishing, New York

Hélène Bellenger » Bianco Ordinario Editions de l’Observeur, Vinzelles, France

Widline Cadet Ritual »
Ritual [Dis]Appearance .. Black Mountains Studio, Los Angeles

Daniel Chatard » Niemandsland The Eriskay Connection, Breda, Netherlands

Louise Desnos » Acedia Witty Books, Turin, Italy

Salome Erni » Interesting Things Self-published, La Haye, Netherlands

Alanna Fields » Unveiling Meteoro Editions, Amsterdam

Christine Furuya-Gössler » Photographs (1978–1985) Chose Commune, Marseille, France

Farid Renais Ghimas » Angan Harsa Jordan, jordan Édition, Jakarta, Indonesia

Mohamed Hassan » Our Hidden Room Ediciones Posibles...

Balarama Heller » Sacred Place TIS Books, New York

Daniel Stephen Homer » Route de la belle etoile GOST Books, London

Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø » Frida Forever Disko Bay, Copenhagen

Heba Khalifa » Tiger’s Eye Auto-publié, Waziz Books, Cairo

Mahmoud Khattab » The Dog Sat Where We Parted Auto-published, Cairo

András Ladocsi » There Is a Big River, in Which There Is a Big Island... VOID, Athens

Martha Naranjo Sandoval » Small Death MACK, London

Alick Phiri » Lusaka Street Art Paper Editions, Ghent, Belgium


Clara Simas » My father died three times / Meu pai morreu ... Propágulo, Recife, Brazil






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.




 

Black Chronicles: Photography, Race, and Difference in Victorian Britain Edited by Renée Mussai Thames & Hudson et Autograph, London




 

Calamita/á: An Investigation into the Vajont Catastrophe Edited by Gianpaolo Arena and Marina Caneve - Fw:Books, Amsterdam



 

Generalized Visual Resistance: Photobooks and Liberation Movements Edited by Catarina Boieiro and Raquel Schefer - ATLAS, Lisbon



 

Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini: Nous Autres (We Others)
Edited by Nathalie Chapuis and Camille Cibot - Atelier EXB et LE BAL, Paris



 

Paiter Suruí, Gente de verdade: Um projeto do Coletivo Lakapoy Edited by Thyago Nogueira, Txai Suruí, and Lahayda Mamani Poma - Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo



 

The Lure of the Image Edited by Marco De Mutiis, Gwendolyn Fässler, Doris Gassert & Alessandra Nappo - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, and Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany