The Images Vevey Book Award is a grant worth CHF 10,000 (approx. EUR 9,000) that supports the creation of a book project which showcases an optimal and original balance between publication format and photographic content. It provides a financial contribution that aims to encourage artists to take risks and to innovate, in order for them to develop a suitable sophisticated publication format for their photography project.

The five-stage process of the Images Vevey Book Award:

1. Applicants fill in an online forma and pay a EUR 40 fee (Application open: Jan 14, - Feb 28.)
2. At the end of the first phase, a jury pre-selects at least 15 projects
3. The nominated artists send a complete file by post (Until Apr 18)
4. The international Jury selects the winning project (May)
5. The winner has a one year to publish his/her book and present it at Festival Images Vevey 2020

Juror information

The final jury is composed of five international personalities from institutional, artistic, curatorial media and editorial world.

President Dayanita Singh, Artist
Dayanita Singh is an internationally renowned Indian artist, whose practice unfolds around two fundamental aspects of photography: publishing and exhibition. Her work has been presented at the Tate Modern, London, the Seattle Art Museum, the Venice Biennale or the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Publishing also plays an important role in the artist’s practice : in nearly thirty years, she has published twelve books, most of them with the leading German publisher Steidl.

Emma Bowkett, Director of Photography, Financial Times Magazine, London
Emma Bowkett is Director of Photography at Financial Times FT Weekend Magazine since its launch in 2010. In 2018, she curated the Hamburg Triennial of Photography and Peckham 24 in London - a contemporary photography festival organized in parallel with Photo London - and co-curated the Suffolk Biennale of Photography, PhotoEast. Emma Bowkett is a guest speaker and regularly participates in readings of international portfolios, festivals, fairs and photography competitions.

Lesley A. Martin, Creative Director, Aperture Foundation, New York
Creative Director of the Aperture Foundation, Lesley A. Martin is the publisher of the biannual journal The Photobook Review since 2011. Her writing on photography has been featured in publications such as Aperture, Ojo de Pez, FOAM and IMA Magazine. Lesley A. Martin has edited more than a hundred photographic books. In 2012, she co-founded the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.

Christoph Wiesner, Artistic Director, Paris Photo, Paris
After having been a collaborator and then director of the Schipper & Krome Gallery, then Esther Schipper, in Berlin from 1997 to 2012, Christoph Wiesner was appointed director of the Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris. Since 2015, he has been the artistic director of the international art photography fair - Paris Photo. He regularly takes part as a jury member in prestigious photo competitions such as the BMW Residence, Carte Blanches Etudiants or the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.

Francesco Zanot, Independent Curator, Milan
Exhibition curator at CAMERA - The Italian Centre for Photography in Turin, from 2015 to 2017, Francesco Zanot was the curator of exhibitions and books by artists such as Boris Mikhailov, Francesco Jodice, Erik Kessels, Linda Fregni Nagler and Domingo Milella. He is the co-author of Ping Pong Conversations, a long interview with American photographer Alec Soth. Director of the Master of Photography at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan (NABA), Francesco Zanot has also given lectures at prestigious institutions such as Columbia University in New York, ECAL/Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne or IUAV/ The University Institute of Architecture in Venice.

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