2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Paris Photo and Aperture are pleased to announce the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist exhibition at Printed Matter—an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the evolving narrative of photography. Now in its thirteenth year, the awards recognize excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year.
For the 2025 awards, over one thousand books were submitted from fifty-five countries. Two juries of international team members deliberate to determine the winners. For the 2025 awards, a shortlist jury met in New York, September 17 to 19, for three concentrated days of review and deliberation. The team included: Brendan Embser, senior editor, Aperture; Florian Koenigsberger, technologist and photographer; Paul Moakley, executive producer, The New Yorker; Anna Planas, artistic director, Paris Photo; and Keisha Scarville, artist.
On November 13, a final jury, on site at Paris Photo, selected the winners from among the thirty-seven shortlisted titles. The team included Coralie Gauthier, director of programming, communications, and events, Librairie 7L; Shanay Jhaveri, head of visual arts, Barbican Centre; Manuel Krebs, designer and publisher, NORM; Emily LaBarge, contributing writer, The New York Times; and Guinevere Ras, curator, Nederlands Fotomuseum.
“Across the thirty-seven books that we had the incredible opportunity to spend time with and deliberate on, some things that surfaced were a sense of investigating the archive and intergenerational conversations,” says juror Shanay Jhaveri. “The shortlist and the winners show the vitality of the form of the book itself, one that is essential today in a culture where images have been dematerialized.”