Jack Latham (b. 1989, UK) has won the Bar Tur Photobook Award 2015. Now in its second year this significant annual award offers an emerging photographer the opportunity to work with The Photographers’ Gallery and independent UK based publisher Here Press, to produce their first book to a value of £20,000.
The winner was announced at a special ceremony at The Photographers’ Gallery on Tuesday 1 December 2015 and the winning project will be published in Autumn 2016.
Latham’s winning project, Sugar Paper Theories, traces an infamous true crime case in Iceland. Known as the Reykjavik Confessions, it involved the testimonies of six people, who confessed to two murders they had no apparent memory of.
The four runners-up are: Sebastián Bruno, Eugenio Grosso, Nikolas Ventourakis and Luisa Whitton, and will all receive £1,000 each towards the realisation of their proposed photobook project.
