Paris Photo 2026 - Aperture PhotoBook Awards
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
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Anuschka Blommers, Niels Schumm, and Julie Peeters