2026 Art & Photo Book Award

Open for submissions

To Remember is based around Caleb Thal’s memories. Printed, re-photographed, and altered, each image is reimagined by Thal as a way of tracing how photographs change long after they are first seen. “As a child I spent a lot of time looking at old photographs of myself and my family as we grew up. As I am older I find myself remembering events of my childhood more centred on the photograph as opposed to the actual event.”

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i’m here & i love you is an interdisciplinary book that documents Kyoko Takenaka’s year navigating a Stage 3B Hodgkin Lymphoma diagnosis through photography, interviews, and guiding questions. All images and words were created during their treatment and recovery, ranging from portraits taken during their chemotherapy infusion sessions to photographs captured in the forests of Yakushima Island one week after their port removal surgery. This body of work weaves together themes of illness, diaspora, imagination, and healing through nature and community.

Froot Loops features Matthew Walton’s mixed-media-work-on-paper series highlighting the quiet charm of everyday queerness. Each piece reimagines a separate mundane moment, transformed by Walton’s bold, graphic approach to figuration and his vibrant technicolor lens. These vignettes invite viewers into intimate, relatable scenes that blur the line between public and private space. It is within this liminal realm that Walton’s camp and Cubist-coded figures live – uninhibited; a world all its own, where everyone is welcome to step inside.

Photographed over a month in the streets of San José, Costa Rica, Limpid Blue is Olly Geary’s ode to his mother’s homeland. The work invites viewers to reflect on the broader implications of modernization, questioning how it reshapes our relationship to the landscape and how traditions integral to our sense of place might be sustained.

In Move Like Water, Still Like Rock, Minhan Lin approaches rocks as records of movement and transformation. Beneath their apparent stillness lie the forces of water, wind, gravity, and pressure. To observe a rock is to look past its surface and imagine the unseen energies that shaped it.

Pomegranates by João Lutz is a visual and written response to the resurfacing of a childhood memory of sexual abuse—an experience long buried. The project began shortly after the memory returned and unfolded in real time through photography, poetry, and moments of stillness. The book does not follow a linear narrative. Instead, it moves like memory: fragmented, uncertain, and intimate. It is a work about remembering, about naming what was hidden, and about what it means to continue forward while holding both silence and truth.

it’s all very interesting what is happening by Angelo Dolojan is a zine featuring drawings created over the course of a year. The work weaves together observation, memory, dreams, documentation, and manifestation into a continuous visual exploration.

Dearest by Zeinab Diomande is a zine presenting a collection of paintings that, while not a formal series, share a cohesive visual language exploring themes of liquidity and the passage of time, achieved through the use of thinned paint and water. The pieces employ texture as a storytelling device, reflecting the rituals and ceremonies of the artist’s alter egos within imagined worlds.

Traumstadt by Grace Dodds is a zine featuring 28 black-and-white images created within the post-documentary tradition. Carefully edited and arranged, the series offers a tender and unobtrusive portrait of Berlin street life. The work employs a meandering, gentle gaze that amplifies the subtle connections between people and places. The project draws inspiration from Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, which is set in the same city.

2026 Art & Photo Book Award

Open for submissions