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Fortieth Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Long List Announced
12 May 2025
On its 40th anniversay, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards for moving images and stills has released its long list for the 2025 edition. It announced 10 titles in the Still Image category and another 10 in the Moving Image category.
Sir Brian Pomeroy CBE, chair of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, sais of this year's longlists, "In this 40th anniversary year of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, the number and quality of the entries continue to reflect the high prestige in which the Awards are held. The longlists are as strong and varied as ever."
As we noted in today's Around the Horn, The Guardian features a few of the images illuminating this year's themes.
PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK AWARD
The 10 Long listed Titles for the 2025 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award are:
- Aisha by Yumna Al-Arashi (Edition Patrick Frey)
- Outside the Binary by Linda Bournane Engelberth (Journal)
- Crossroads by Debsuddha (…dition Images Vevey)
- In The Dark, The Tides Shine Bright by Jeano Edwards (Self-published)
- A Woman I Once Knew by Rosalind Fox Solomon (MACK)
- Tee A. Corinne: A forest fire between us by Charlotte Flint (Ed.) (MACK)
- Go Home Polish by Michal Iwanowski (Self-published)
- The Dog Sat Where We Parted by Mahmoud Khattab (Self-published)
- The Unruly Archive by Stephanie Syjuco (Radius Books)
- Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories by Rebecca Topakian (Blow Up Press)
MOVING IMAGE BOOK AWARD
The 10 long listed titles for the 2025 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award are:
- Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema,mostly by Sam Ashby (Ed.) (SPBH EDITIONS)
- Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia by Esha Niyogi De (University of Illinois Press)
- Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China by Xiang Fan (Bloomsbury Academic)
- Directed by Yasujir Ozu by Shiguehiko Hasumi (University of California Press)
- Screen Deep: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world by Ellen E. Jones (Faber)
- Seeing Further by Esther Kinsky (translated by Caroline Schmidt) (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
- Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema by Jessica Niebel and Sophia Serrano (Eds.) (Academy Museum of Motion Pictures/DelMonico Books)
- It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy by Victoria Sturtevant (University of Texas Press)
- Crazy Fish Sing by multiple contributors (Yogurt Editions)
- The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema by Rick Warner (Columbia University Press)
JUDGES
A separate judging panel for each of the awards consists of three internationally recognized experts in their specialist fields drawn from the worlds of fine art, photography, film, galleries, museums, academia and publishing. Winning books should exhibit a significant contribution to the art, history, research, criticism, science or conservation of photography or the moving image. In addition to the visual and written content, submissions are judged on the standards of production, format and design.
The 2025 Photography Book Award judges are:
- Taous Dahmani, a London-based French, British and Algerian art historian, writer and curator specialising in photography
- Dr. Sunil Gupta, a British/Canadian London-based photographer whose critical practice focuses on race, migration and queer issues, and the joint winner of the 2021 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award for his book Sunil Gupta: From Here To Eternity, edited by Mark Sealy (Autograph)
- Charmaine Toh, Senior Curator of International Art (Photography) at Tate whose research interests include alternative histories of photography and the colonial photographic archive
The 2025 Moving Image Book Award judges are:
- Dr. Kim Knowles, Senior Lecturer in Experimental Film at Aberystwyth University and a curator who was Experimental Film Programmer for the Edinburgh International Film Festival between 2008-2022 and has presented film screenings around the world
- Kamila Kuc, a filmmaker and author, and winner of the 2024 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Screen-Based Practice Research Award for her film Her Plot of Blue Sky (2023)
- Isabel Stevens, a writer, editor and curator, who is the managing editor for Sight and Sound, the international film magazine published by the BFI.
The call for the 2026 Awards will be issued in November 2025.