Opening at Tenderbooks: 2023 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Exhibition
Reception
Opening at Tenderbooks: 2023 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Exhibition
Tuesday, May 14
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. BST
Paris Photo and Aperture are delighted to announce the first exhibition of the 2023 Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards to take place in the UK. Now in its eleventh year, the award recognizes excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year.
An exhibition of all thirty-five shortlisted books will be on view at Tenderbooks, London, until Saturday, June 1. As well as these titles, the exhibition includes publications by Clifford Prince King, Mikiko Hara, Ruth van Beek, Star Feliz, and Christopher Gregory-Rivera.
A reception of the exhibition will take place at Tenderbooks on Tuesday, May 14, 6–8 pm during Photo London week—with opening remarks from Bruno Ceschel, founder of SPBH Editions, Alona Pardo, head of programs at Arts Council Collection, Mark Sealy, director of Autograph, and Lillian Wilkie, Aperture’s manager of sales in UK and Europe.
Last year, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards received 961 books from sixty-one countries, including stand-out entries from Nepal, New Zealand, Denmark, and Japan. On September 20–22, 2023, the shortlist jury met in New York for three concentrated days of review and deliberation by an international team: Deirdre Donohue, assistant director of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, the New York Public Library; Alex Lin, creative director and owner, Studio Lin; Lesley A. Martin, editor at large, Aperture; Renée Mussai, artistic director, the Walther Collection; and Anna Planas, artistic director, Paris Photo.
A final jury gathered at Paris Photo to select winners for all three prizes. The winner of First PhotoBook was awarded to Tender by Carla Williams; PhotoBook of the Year to The Drawer by Vince Aletti; and Photography Catalog of the Year to The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project by Diwas Raja Kc and NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati.
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Image: Photograph by Daniel Salemi
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