Les Rencontres d'Arles 2009 Book Prize Announced

From Back Home

This year's Les Rencontres d'Arles Book Prize was awarded to From Back Home by JH Engström given to In History by Susan Meiselas. Jeff Ladd at 5b4 has a full report on the photobook awards at this year's festival.

In History

Call for Entry: Photography.Book.Now

Photography.Book.Now 2008, which was hosted by Blurb and included a range of photography industry sponsors (like American Photography, JPG magazine, Flickr, etc), is now set to begin again, for a second time, with the same Grand Prize ($25,000!).

This year, there will be 3 categories (as opposed to just the 2 from last year): Fine Art, Editorial, Commercial. The wording for these 3 categories can be found here, on the Photography.Book.Now website.

The judges, who will be announced in the coming weeks, will be drawn from the international pool of photography professionals with backgrounds in the arts and editorial work, and will include magazine picture editors, gallerists, photographers and museum curators. We had an amazing line-up of judges last year, and this year will be no different.

Deadline is 12:00 PM PDT July 16, 2009. Visit Photography.Book.Now contest page or Darius Himes' blog to find out more info.