Images Vevey Book Award 2025/2026

The award grants the winner with a value ranging from a minimum of CHF10,000 (co-publishing) to a maximum of CHF20,000 (exclusive publisher) to produce a unique photography book.

Overview

The Images Vevey Book Award is a grant that supports the creation of a book project which showcases an optimal and original balance between publication format and photographic content. It provides a financial contribution that aims to encourage artists to take risks and to innovate, in order for them to develop a suitable sophisticated publication format for their photography project. This is also when the Grand Prix Images Vevey is presented, alongside a CHF40,000 prize that enables one artist to develop a new photography project over the course of a year and present it at the following Biennale Images Vevey.

Practical Info

The competition is open to professional artists and photographers as well as those in training who are currently working on a book project, with no age limitations or regional restrictions, and with complete freedom of choice over subject and genre.

Applicants must submit 10 pictures of the photographic series, images of the book project (example: page spreads of the layout, dummy-documentation, sketches), a statement of intent written in English (600 characters maximum), and a general text presenting the project in detail, including the idea, intentions, and objectives (one page maximum). Participants are allowed to submit one project for the Grand Prix Images Vevey while simultaneously applying for the Images Vevey Book Award, as long as they comply with the respective regulations. Only one project per participant is allowed and will be selected for realization.

The award grants the winner with a value ranging from a minimum of CHF10,000 (co-publishing) to a maximum of CHF20,000 (exclusive publisher) to produce a unique photography book. The book must be produced in consultation with Images Vevey as publisher or co-publisher.

About Images Vevey

Images Vevey serves as an ecosystem dedicated to supporting various forms of artistic creation through four core activities: L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey, a permanent gallery for contemporary photography; the Grand Prix Images Vevey, one of Europe’s most long-standing grants for photography projects; the Éditions Images Vevey publishing house; and, of course, the Biennale Images Vevey. Every other year since 2008, Images Vevey has proposed site-specific outdoor and indoor photographic installations in Vevey: on its streets and facades, in its parks, museums and galleries, and even in Lake Geneva.