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. Since 2015, The Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Ecriture et la Littérature is the main partner of these Awards.
With support from FNAC for the author book award.

The 2022 Book Awards were announced by a jury of photobook experts during the night at the Théâtre Antique on Tuesday, July 5, 2022:

THE AUTHOR BOOK AWARD
Winner
Title: Strike, Strajk
Author: Rafaƚ Milach & collectif
Editor: Jednostka Gallery, Varsovie
Design: Ania Nałęcka-Milach, Rafał Milach

THE PHOTO-TEXT BOOK AWARD
Winner
Title: Desiderea Nuncia
Author: Smith, Lucien Raphmaj & Diplomates
Editor: Palais Books, Arles
Design: Yann Linsart

Special mention
Title: Nos prisons
Author: Maxence Rifflet
Editor: Le pont du jour, Cherbourg
Design: David Poullard

THE HISTORICAL BOOK AWARD
Winner
Title: Quitting your day job: Chauncey Hare's photographic work
Author: Robert Slifkin
Editor: Mack, Londres
Design: Morgan Crowcroft-Brown

Special mention
Title: Aenne Biermann. Up Close and Personal
Author: Aenne Biermann & collectif
Editor: Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Zurich
Design: Sylph Editions London


THE JURY

Julie Jones
Photography department Musée national d’art moderne 

Lukas Hoffmann
Photographer

Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo
Artist and freelance curator

Nathalie Herschdorfer
Author, curator, art historian and director of the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne

Sophie Queval
Head of cultural programming & media relations, Fnac, Southeast region