The 2016 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards: First PhotoBook Shortlist

Books 2016 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards: First PhotoBook Shortlist Established in 2013, the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with three major categories: First PhotoBook, Photography Catalogue of the Year, and PhotoBook of the Year.

Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards

Established in 2013, the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with three major categories: First PhotoBook, Photography Catalogue of the Year, and PhotoBook of the Year.

The shortlist selection was made by Ann-Christin Bertrand, Curator, C/O Berlin; David Campany, independent curator and writer; Lesley A. Martin, Creative Director, Aperture Foundation and Publisher, The PhotoBook Review; Becky Senf, Phoenix Art Museum and Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and Christoph Wiesner, Artistic Director, Paris Photo.

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First PhotoBook Shortlist:

The Prospect of Immortality
Murray Ballard
Publisher: GOST Books

Where We've Been, Where We're Going, Why?
Dan Boardman & Aspen Mays
Publisher: Conveyor Editions/RVB Books

Libyan Sugar
Michael Christopher Brown
Publisher: Twin Palms

Selected as Book of the Week by Forrest Soper

The Naming of a River
Cheng Xinhao
Publisher: Jiazazhi Press

Astres Noirs
Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick
Publisher: Chose Commune

Read the review by Colin Pantall on photo-eye Blog

Sugar Paper Theories
Jack Latham
Publisher: Here Press

Summer Days Staten Island.
Christine Osinski
Publisher: Damiani

Lost Coast
Curran Hatleberg
Publisher: TBW Books

00A
Dominique Somers
Publisher: Art Paper Editions

Tokyo
Sohei Nishino
Publisher: amana

 
Magic Party Place
C. J. Clarke
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag

Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–2016
John Radcliffe Studio
Self-published

Dear Clark, Portrait of a Con Man.
Sara-Lena Maierhofer
Drittel Books

Black is the Day, Black is the Night
Amy Elkins
Self-published

A House Without a Roof
Adam Golfer
Publisher: Booklyn








 
Event Horizon
Quentin Lacombe
Self-published

Dark Archives: 1-41
Andre Bradley
Publisher: Image Text Ithaca Press

How We End
Kate Stone and Hannah Schneider
Self-published

Estamos Buscando A (We're Looking For)
Paul Turounet
Self-Published

I Absolutely Forbade All Public Photographs of Myself
Yannick Bouillis
Self-Published