Created at the founding of the festival, the Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards support each year, with renewed fervor, the extraordinary creativity of photographic publishing, and strive to be one of the major actors for its wide dissemination.
Each award, supported by the Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature is endowed with 6,000 euros and rewards a photographic work published between May 13, 2024 and May 12, 2025 (included).
A pre-selection followed by the designation of the winning works is established by a pre-jury composed this year by Lucas Gomez, Laura Morsch-Kihn and Émilie Pautus.
The winning publications of the three categories are announced during the opening week of the festival.
For this 2025 edition, 123 books have been shortlisted in all categories, and will be on display throughout the festival, in a venue dedicated to the various Rencontres publishing awards, at La Mécanique Générale.
THE AUTHOR BOOK AWARD
It rewards the best author project for a contemporary photography work.
Discover the 89 shortlisted books.
THE HISTORICAL BOOK AWARD
It rewards the best documented book on photography or about a photographer. It can either be a thematic or monographic book.
Discover the 13 shortlisted books.
THE PHOTO-TEXT BOOK AWARD
It rewards the best book in which photographs and words contribute equally to the work.
Discover the 21 shortlisted books.
Main partner of the Book Awards: Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature.
