This category, 'PARIS 2021'

lists the shortlisted titles for the Aperture Foundation Paris PhotoBook Award 2021 that are still available and worth recommending. (in progress)

Additionally I put photo book titles in this category which will be signed at Polycopies or during Paris Photo, e.g. by AMBROSSIO, BANGERT, HEINISCH, MARSHALL, ZAIDI a.o. (in progress)

The categories of the Aperture Foundation Paris PhotoBook Award

  • First PhotoBook
    PhotoBook of the Year
    Photography Catalogue of the Year

The winning titles of the PhotoBook Award 2021

will be announced during Paris Photo on Friday, November 12, 2021 and will be sorted into the appropriate category of 'excellent' at Cafe Lehmitz Photobooks afterwards. Here you will also find the winning titles of the Aperture Foundation Paris PhotoBook Award of the past years.


Held back for 30 years, ambitious photo book 'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing' by Magnum photographer Gilles PERESS takes the language of documentary photography to the extreme and then asks the reader to pause and solve the riddle of meaning for themselves
from 398,00 € Weight 17 kg
In 'Cut Outs' Jessica BACKHAUS consequently continues her path of abstraction already taken in photo volume 'A Trilogy' - using analog methods she creates and documents visual experimental arrangements, poetic choreographies of intense, sunlighted colors.
198,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
Photo book 'Suburban Bus' by Mexican photographer Alejandro CARTAGENA tells the story of people who want a better life in a city that lacks everything: decent roads, enough buses and safety on buses. It is shortlisted for the Paris PhotoBook Award 2021.
158,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
Five new volumes of the long-term book-project 'City Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI were published for Paris Photo 2021. The documented cities are Dhaka, Yangon, Minsk, Belfast as well as Linz. They are offered here in one set, there are still predecessors!
138,00 € *
This photo book, 'I can't stand to see you cry' by Rahim FORTUNE, analyzes the relationships between family, friends and strangers during the pandemic. The photographer uses his personal experiences to explore the friction between public and private life.
120,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
This four-volume photo book set, 'Erde, Feuer, Wind, Wasser' by Damian HEINISCH, explores the cultural & collective heritage of Central Europe through his own family history. In addition to the photographs, the set includes bilingually reproduced texts.
100,00 € Weight 4.7 kg
'Maria' deals about 1932-33 famine in Soviet Ukraine. Lesia MARUSCHAK has transformed her knowledge of this period by creating an artbook, as metaphor for memory as elaborate mental function by which information is stored, organized, changed and retrieved
68,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
68,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
Signed! 'In Limbo' by Florian BACHMEIER, describes a state of numbness & insecurity against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict. The images, taken over the last 8 years, make historical processes visible, as well as their psychological & social effects.
64,00 € * Weight 1 kg
The second photo volume by Tariq ZAIDI, 'Sin Salida', is the result of three years of documentation and shows the struggle of the state of El Salvador against two brutal gangs that have sophisticated extortion and domination networks throughout the region
from 55,00 € Weight 1 kg