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The Royal Photographic Society and The John Kobal Foundation are delighted to announce the winner of The John Kobal Book Award 2005. The £1,000 prize was presented at the annual Royal Photographic Society Awards in London on 6th October 2005. This award has been created to encourage new photographic publication in the UK. The award recognises the best first published monograph by a living photographer who is either a British national published in any country worldwide or of any nationality but originally published by a publishing house based in the UK. Books entered for the 2005 award have been published between 1st August 2004 and 31st July 2005.
Winner of the John Kobal Book Award 2005:
Hashem El Madani - Studio Practices
Pub: Arab Image Foundation, Mind The Gap & The Photographers' Gallery
Highly Commended:
Anders Edstrom for waiting some birds a bus a woman/spidernets places a crew
Pub: steidlMACK
Paul Lowe - Bosnians
Pub: Saqi Books in association with The Bosnian Insitute
Amanda Tetrault - Phil And Me
Pub: Trolley
The judging panel for the 2005 Award comprised John Kobal Foundation Council members;
- Simon Crocker, Chairman;
- Liz Jobey, Associate Editor of Granta, writer and editor;
- Terence Pepper, Curator of Photography at the National Portrait Gallery;
together with representatives from the Royal Photographic Society;
- Mark Haworth-Booth, previously Senior Curator of Photographs, The Victoria & Albert Museum
- and Russell Roberts, Senior Curator of Photographs, The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.
All Books submitted will be donated to the RPS collection at The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford as part of the developing collection.
Contacts for further information:
Jo Macdonald c/o The RPS office on 01225 325 721
Lindsay Littlehales, The John Kobal Foundation on 020 7278 8482 oraward@johnkobal.org
Book Award 2003 -2005 - for further details
Winner of the John Kobal Book Award 2004:
Stephen Gill for Field Studies, Pub: Chris Boot
Highly Commended:
Winner of the John Kobal Book Award 2003:
Tom Hunter for Tom Hunter, Pub: Hatje Cantz
Highly Commended:
Jillian Edelstein for Truth & Lies, Pub: Granta Books
Toby Glanville for Actual Life, Pub: Photoworks
Commended:
Nick Dawe, with text by Kenneth Powell for Modern House Today, Pub: Black Dog
Jenny Matthews for Women and War, Pub: Pluto Press
Jackie Nickerson for Farm, Pub: Jonathan Cape
Winner/Highly Commended John Kobal Book Award 2003 are:
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