THE 2025 RENCONTRES D’ARLES BOOK AWARDS

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 Jan Michalski Foundation for writing and literature is endowed with 6,000 euros and rewards a photographic work published between May 13, 2024 and May 12, 2025.

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 final jury was composed by Clara Bouveresse, Aurélie de Lanlay, Hélène Giannecchini, Todd Hido, Vera Michalski, Thyago Nogueira, Batia Suter and Christoph Wiesner.

The winning publications of the three categories were announced during the opening week of the festival. For this 2025 edition, 123 books have been shortlisted in all categories.

→ THE PHOTO-TEXT BOOK AWARD rewards the best book in which photographs and words contribute equally to the work.
→ THE HISTORICAL BOOK AWARD rewards the best documented book on photography or about a photographer. It can either be a thematic or monographic book.
→ THE AUTHOR BOOK AWARD rewards the best author project for a contemporary photography work.

THE AUTHOR BOOK AWARD

WINNER

Title : Popihuise

Author : Vuyo Mabheka

Publishing house : Chose Commune

SPECIAL MENTION

Title : Afropean

Author : Johny Pitts

Publishing house : Mörel

THE HISTORICAL BOOK AWARD

WINNER

Title : Twana’s box

Author : Rawsht Twana

Publishing house : Fraglich publishing

SPECIAL MENTION

Title : Al cerchio delle tue mani

Author : Bibi Tomasi

Publishing house : BilderAtlas

PHOTO-TEXT BOOK AWARD

WINNER

Title : A Woman I Once Knew

Author : Rosalind Fox Solomon

Publishing house : MACK

SPECIAL MENTION

Title : La photo me regardait

Author : Katja Petrowskaja

Publishing house : Editions Macula