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2024 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Winners Announced
27 June 2024
The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation has announced the two winners of its annual book awards, one for still photography and the other for moving images.
Kraszna-Krausz Winners. Jue Li (left) and Hristina Tasheva.
Hristina Tasheva wins the 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award for Far Away From Home: The Voices, the Body and the Periphery (self published). Using contemporary photography, found imagery and archival research, as well as inserting a pressed flower gathered by her from visits to Dachau and Mauthausen concentration camp memorials, the book is an ambitious attempt at mapping the disparities between two national experiences of Communism in the twentieth century -- the Dutch and the Bulgarian -- as they were impacted by the rise and fall of Nazi Germany.
Jie Li wins the 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award for Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists and Audiences in Socialist China (Columbia University Press) which draws on a wealth of archives, memoirs, interviews and ethnographic fieldwork to create a media history of Chinese film exhibition and reception that offers fresh insights into the powers and limits of propaganda.
"We congratulate Hristina Tasheva and Jie Li on their outstanding winning books. They have fully upheld the tradition of excellence which has consistently marked the Kraszna-Krausz book awards for nearly four decades," said Sir Brian Pomeroy CBE, chair of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation.
JUDGES
Two judging panels made up respectively of three internationally recognized experts in their specialist fields drawn from the worlds of fine art, photography, film, galleries, museums, academia and publishing, were responsible for deciding the two winners as well as the previous longlists and shortlists of the Photography and Moving Image awards.
The 2024 Photography Book Award judges are Mariama Attah, Associate Curator for Art Collection Deutsche Börse and a writer and lecturer with a particular interest in overlooked visual histories; Anthony Luvera, an artist, writer and Associate Professor in the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University, whose long-term collaborative work is exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces and festivals; and Eugénie Shinkle, a photographer and writer who is Editor of the photobook platform C4 Journal and Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster.
The 2024 Moving Image Book Award judges are Kieron Corless, Associate Editor of Sight and Sound film magazine at the British Film Institute and co-curator of the Essay Film Festival at Birkbeck University and the ICA as well as a writer and visiting lecturer; filmmaker, scholar, composer and theatre director, Dr Victor Fan who is Reader in Film and Media Philosophy at the Department of Film Studies, King's College London; and Head of Screen Arts at the UK's National Film and Television School, Sandra Hebron, who has worked in independent film since the late 1980s.
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, which is free to enter, are invited from publishers, authors, collectives and individuals self-publishing their work. Books entered must have been published for the first time between 1 January and 31 December 2023 and distributed and available to buy in the UK. Non-English language books must be accompanied by an English language translation of all text and submissions in the Photography Book award category must contain a significant textual element as image-only books are not eligible. Up to six different titles can be entered with each having a minimum run of 100 copies.
The call for the 2025 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards will be issued in November 2024.