“2022 Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards” Installation view at The Reference ©The ReferenceFrom June 9 to July 2, The Reference will showcase the 2022 winners of the Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, the world’s largest photobook awards, celebrating its 10th anniversary. With more than 1,000 entries, the 2022 PhotoBook Awards is a competition organized by Paris Photo and the Aperture Foundation.
A total of 38 books were awarded in three categories: ‘First Photobook’, ‘Photobook of the Year’ and ‘Photography Catalogue of the Year’. In addition to these 38 titles, the exhibition will feature 41 works, including the Jurors’ Special Mention.
Rather than defining a photobook as a collection of photographs, The Reference considers all the work required to create a book (editing, printing, binding, design, etc.) as a process of creating an artwork and interprets the photobook itself as an artwork, and the individuality and aesthetics of the photobook as a book.
Therefore, the exhibition is organized in collaboration with furniture made by the design studio Zerolab to make the book feel like a single work of art, and it aims to reflect on the meaning of contemporary photography and examine the flow of photobooks produced today.
