While the 2024 edition of Paris Photo ends, the Paris Photo – Aperture PhotoBook Awards prize has revealed its new winners. Created in 2012, this competition celebrates the best photo books of the year across 3 categories: First Photo Book, Photo Book of the Yearet Photographic Catalog of the Year.
This year, 940 photo books from 59 countries were examined from September 18 to 20 by the preselection jury meeting in New York. THE 35 finalists were decided this Friday, November 8 in Paris by a jury of photography specialists.
First Photo Book Prize: Tsai Ting Bang for Born from the Same Root
The Prize for the First Photo Bookaccompanied by a $10,000 reward, was awarded to Born from the Same Roota self-published work by the Taiwanese artist Tsai Ting Bang.
This book sensitively explores the intimate and complex relationship between Tsai and her older brotherHsien. Through portraits, everyday shots and photos from family archives, the artist reveals moments charged with emotion while addressing the themes of separation and family inheritance. A touching artistic reflection on the fraternal bonds and the weight of shared traumas.
Photo Book of the Year: Taysir Batniji for Disruptions
Disruptionspublished by Loose Joints, wins the title of Photo Book of the Year. The Franco-Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji uses screenshots of his WhatsApp video calls with his family in Gaza.
Ces pixelated imageswhere it is often difficult to recognize a face, reveal the interruptions and fragility of connections. These are also metaphors of psychological disintegration families. This committed book highlights the impact of conflicts on communication and everyday life, in a visual object that is as fragmented as it is poetic.
Photographic Catalog of the Year: Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain
Led by Joy Gregory et Taous Dahmaniand published by Autograph and MACK, Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain was elected Photographic Catalog of the Year 2024.
This work restores the major contribution, although often ignored, of black women photographers in the British scene of the 1980s and 1990s. Bringing together more than 50 artists, this catalog is based on photographs, archive documents, and enlightening texts. Shining Lights is a tribute to creative voices of the time and a valuable resource for measuring the impact of black artists on British photography.
Special Jury Mention: Hady Barry for I am (not) your mother
The Paris Photo – Aperture PhotoBook Awards jury awarded a special mention to Hady Barry for I am (not) your mother.
Self-published at Penumbra Foundation de New Yorkthe work explores family ties and identity questions through a personal perspective rich in emotions. Throughout the pages, adolescence gives way to parenthood through a mixture of photographs with a nostalgic chromatic palette and more austere monochromes produced by Hady Barry.
THE 35 finalist books were exhibited at Paris Photo until November 10 and will be subject to international presentations in 2025. Several of these titles are already available from Delpire & Co. All will then be available from their respective publishing houses.
