Book Awards 2024

Supported and encouraged by the Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’écriture et la littérature, the new edition of the Book Awards of Les Rencontres d'Arles invites photographers and publishers to apply.

Overview

Created to support the extraordinary development of photographic publishing and to contribute to its wider dissemination, the Book Awards of Les Rencontres d'Arles reward three categories of works: the Author's Book Award, the Historical Book Award and the Photo-Text Book Award, supported and encouraged by the Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’écriture et la littérature, which celebrates the relationship between texts and images.

Practical Info

Each award is endowed with €6,000 and rewards a photographic work published between May 1, 2023 and May 10, 2024 (included). As soon as the prizes are awarded, half of the prize money is paid to the publisher, and half to the artist (or to all the authors in the case of a collaborative work).

The Author Book Award rewards the best author project for a contemporary photography work. The Historical Book Award rewards the best documented book on photography or about a photographer. It can either be a thematic or monographic book. The Photo-Text Book Award rewards the best book in which photographs and words contribute equally to the work. The shortlisted and winning books will then be exhibited throughout the festival in a dedicated exhibition space, from July 1 to September 29, 2024, as well as during the Jimei x Arles festival, which will take place in the fall of 2024. The winning publications of the three categories are announced during the opening week of the festival. All the shortlisted books are archived in the library of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d'Arles.

The award is open to all professional photographers and artists using photography of all ages and nationalities. Reissues of artists' books are allowed, as long as the first print run was less than 150 copies. Self-published books (without an ISBN number) that have not yet been distributed are eligible.

About Les Rencontres d'Arles

Every summer since 1970, over the course of more than forty exhibitions at various of the city's heritage sites, the Rencontres d'Arles has been a major influence in disseminating the best of world photography and playing the role of a springboard for photographic and contemporary creative talents.