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 is endowed with 6,000 euros and rewards a photographic work published between May 1, 2023 and May 10, 2024 (included)

A pre-selection followed by the designation of the winning works is established by a pre-jury composed this year by Laura Morsch-Kihn, Emilie Pautus and Chloë Rebmann. The final jury was composed by Marina Amada, Aurélie de Lanlay, Lesley Martin, Vera Michalski, Randa Mirza, Matthieu Nicol, François Quintin and Christoph Wiesner.

The winning publications of the three categories are announced during the opening week of the festival.

For this 2024 edition, 122 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 the Mécanique Générale.

→ 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.


PHOTO-TEXTE
 
WINNER
Tu ne meurs pas
Citoyens iraniens anonymes
Marie Sumalla & Ghazal Golshiri
Éditions GwinZegal & Tipping Expected
Guingamp, France, 2023.
Design: Marine Le Thellec
 
SPECIAL MENTION
State of Emergency
Max Pinckers
Hans Theys, Rose Miyonga, Julius Kimari, Wangui Kimari & Suhayl Omar
Auto-édition
Bruxelles, Belgique, 2024.
Design: Rudy Latoir
 
HISTORIQUE
 
WINNER
'89 Tiananmen
Kan Tai Wong
Zen Foto Gallery
Tokyo, Japon, 2024.
Design: Raven & Persimmon Studio
 
SPECIAL MENTION
Les souvenirs des autres
Akihiko Okamura
Trish Lambe, Pauline Vermare, Masako Toda, Seán O’Hagan & Kusi Okamura
Atelier EXB
Paris, France, 2024.
Design: François Dézafit
 
AUTEUR
 
WINNER
The Last Safe Abortion
Carmen Winant
SPBH Editions
Londres, Royaume-Uni, 2024.
Design : Brian Paul Lamotte
 
SPECIAL MENTION
On The Geography of Green
Linarejos Moreno
Marta Dahó, Semíramis Gonzalez & Juan Francisco Rueda
Editorial RM
Barcelone, Espagne, 2023.
Design : Hermanos Berenguer, Linarejos Moreno