Call For Entries is now complete. The Photography.Book.Now Awards Ceremony will take place in San Francisco on September 19th. Don't miss this opportunity to take center stage.
The winners of the first ever Photography.Book.Now competition have been announced. Congratulations to all who entered, and a special shout-out to the winners.
The People's Choice award will be announced live at the Awards Ceremony on September 19.
Browse and buy the winning books in the Photography.Book.Now bookstore, or see them for yourself at the Awards Ceremony, and in the traveling Salon
Grand Prize
Beth Dow, In the Garden
The Grand Prize Winner receives $25,000 to start or finish, any project they wish
Top Category Winners
General Category Winner:
Talia Chetrit, Reading
Themed Category Winner:
Jonathan Smith, The Bridge Project
The two Top Category Winners each receive a Canon EOS 5D with EF 24-105mm IS lens.
1st Runner Up
General Category 1st Runner Up:
John Lehr, Something is Happening
Themed Category 1st Runner Up:
Cara Phillips, Singular Beauty
(not available for purchase in the Blurb.com bookstore)
Each winner receives a package of services from Livebooks.
2nd Runner Up
General Category 2nd Runner Up:
Michael Corridore, Roadworks - (Dreamend, Nowhere, Whitesville) and other stories.
Themed Category 2nd Runner Up: (tie)
Benjamin Lowy, Iraq | Perspectives
Ed Panar, Johnstown
Each winner receives a scholarship to the Maine Media Workshops: one week's tuition, room and board.
People's Choice
Leah Anderson, Forgotten
The people's choice winner will receive a prize package from Blurb.
Honorable Mention
The following books have been recognized for their high standards and amazing work. Honorable Mention winners will have their work showcased and recognized at events worldwide in the Photography.Book.Now traveling Salon.
Honorable Mention: General Category
- Kent Budge, A few clicks down the road
- Andrew Crooks, Andrew Crooks: Photography: Video: 2008
- Klaus Enrique Gerdes, Life
- Dermot Fitzsimons, Stop, Photographs 2005-2008
- Iaia Gagliani, in front and behind a digital camera
- Gregory Halpern, Gregory Halpern PHOTOGRAPHS
- Ingvar Kenne, CITIZEN Portraits 1997-2007
- Lorenzo Moscia, photographs
- Mark Packo, Time Zero
- Bill Ray, My LIFE in Photography
- Emily Shur, I Can See for Miles
- Dennis Stein, SIMPLE: Plastic Camera Photographs
- Yenny Stromgren, what you didn't see
- Marla Sweeney, Chance Encounters
- Susan Hayre Thelwell, Mitchell's Lot
- Eveline van Duyl, 3545
Honorable Mention: Themed Category
- Steven Achiam, Sumo
- Christopher Anderson, Capitolio
- Melissa Catanese, When the bugs come back
- Hin Chua, After the Fall
- Martine Fougeron, Tete-a-tete: intimate portraits of adolescent sons
(not available for purchase in the Blurb.com bookstore) - Balazs Gardi, the valley
- George Georgiou, Happy is he who calls himself a Turk
- Maury Gortemiller, No Anthem
- Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Public School
- Thomas Holton, The Lams of Ludlow Street
- Henry Horenstein, Wesorts
- Joe Johnson, Mega Churches
- Adam Lampton, City of Dreams
- Richard Laugharn, Following Desert Plants
- Rhoderick M. Lising, Gaijin Diary: Sixteen Days in Japan
- Alison Malone, The Daughters of Job
- Colleen Mullins, elysium: urban canopy loss and renewal in post-katrina new Orleans
- Naciem Nikkhah, A Private Rebellion
- Colleen Plumb, Animals Are Outside Today
- Michael Rauner, Amateur Bullfighting in California
- Peter Riesett, Testament, 2004/2008
- Ari Salomon, 18 Rue Dugommier: Reginka Cukierman Struzevska
- Brian Sorg, Davey
- Joni Sternbach, Ditch Plains
- Hiroshi WatanabI, Ideology in Paradise
- Grant Willing, Mid-North
