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Khattab and Jones Win the 40th Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards
26 June 2025
The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation has announced the winners of its 40th anniversary Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards. In the Stills category, Mahmoud Khattab won for his self-published title The Dog Sat Where We Parted. In the Moving Image category, Ellen E. Jones wone for Screen Deep: How film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World published by Faber.
Khattab's The Dog Sat Where We Parted is a deeply personal project in which he captures the vulnerability and fragility of otherwise unseen military life in Egypt. Shot during his enforced year of Egyptian national service as an army doctor in 2017, it is named after Antar, a stray dog with whom Khattab formed a close bond over five-mile walks across the desert. The photographs are an expression of Khattab’s feelings of intense loneliness as a soldier.
Jones's Screen Deep is about the potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Jones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman with her professional expertise as a film and TV journalist of 20 years, going beyond the many film books and anti-racist manuals by demonstrating the connection between these two aspects of modern life.
Khattab and Jones equally share the £10,000 prize fund. Additionally the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, which presents the Awards, will be curating events in the autumn celebrating each of the winning titles. These will take place in London in collaboration with the Barbican for the Moving Image book award and with the V&A South Kensington for the Photography book award.
The short-listed titles were announced on June 5.
Further details will be announced on the Foundation's Web site.