Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards

The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards is a yearly photography book award that is given jointly by Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation. It is announced at the Paris Photo fair and was established in 2012. The categories are First PhotoBook, Photography Catalogue of the Year, and PhotoBook of the Year.
The shortlisted books are displayed at Paris Photo and then tour to Aperture Gallery in New York and venues elsewhere.

PhotoBook of the Year winners

2012: City Diary by Anders Petersen.
2013: A01 — A27 by Rosângela Rennó. Special jury recognition was awarded to War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, edited by Anne Wilkes Tucker and Will Michels with Natalie Zelt.
2014: Imaginary Club by Oliver Sieber. Special mention was awarded to Photographs for Documents by Vytautas V. Stanionis.
2015: Illustrated People by Thomas Mailaender. Special Jurors’ Mention was awarded to Deadline by Will Steacy.
2016: ZZYZX by Gregory Halpern. Special Jurors’ Mention was awarded to Taking Stock of Power: An Other View of the Berlin Wall by Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer.
2017: Museum Bhavan by Dayanita Singh. Special Jurors’ Mention was awarded to La Grieta by Carlos Spottorno and Guillermo Abril.
2018: On Abortion by Laia Abril.
2019: The Coast by Sohrab Hura.
2020: Woman Go No’Gree by Gloria Oyarzabal.
2021: The Banda Journal by Muhammad Faldi and :id:Fatris MF.
2022: Périphérique by Mohamed Bourouissa
2023: The Drawer by Vince Aletti
2024: Disruptions by Taysir Batniji
2025: The Classroom by Hicham Benohoud

First PhotoBook winners

2012: Concresco by David Galjaard.
2013: KARMA by Óscar Monzón.
2014: Hidden Islam by Nicolò Degiorgis.
2015: You Haven't Seen Their Faces by Daniel Mayrit.
2016: Libyan Sugar by Michael Christopher Brown.
2017: Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation by Mathieu Asselin.
2018: One Wall a Web by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa. Special Jurors' Mention was awarded to Experimental Relationship Vol. 1 by Pixy Liao.
2019: The Eighth Day by Gao Shan.
*Special Jurors' Mention was awarded to This World and Others Like It.
2020: Living Trust by Buck Ellison.
2021: by .
2022: Hafiz: Guardians of the Qur'an by Sabiha Çimen
2023: Tender by Carla Williams
2024: Born from the Same Root by Tsai Ting Bang
2025: A Study on Waitressing by Eleonora Agostini

Photography Catalogue of the Year winners

2014: Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness and Christopher Williams: Printed in Germany by Christopher Williams and.
2015: Diane Dufour and Xavier Barral for Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence.
2016: Wojciech Zamecznik: Photo-graphics by Karolina Puchała-Rojek and Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska.
2017: New Realities: Photography in the 19th Century by Mattie Boom and Hans Rooseboom.
2018: The Land in Between by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg.
2019: Enghelab Street, A Revolution through Books: Iran 1979–1983 by Hannah Darabi.
2020: Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography by Tina M. Campt, Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg, and Brian Wallis, eds..
2021: What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999 by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich, eds..
2022: Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 by Makeda Best
2023: The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project by Diwas Raja Kc and NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati
2024: Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain, Joy Gregory, editor, and Taous Dahmani, associate editor
2025: Generalized Visual Resistance: Photobooks and Liberation Movements, Edited by Catarina Boieiro and Raquel Schefer