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Sasha Kurmaz, Onyeka Igwe Win the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards
25 June 2026
The two winning titles of the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Photography and Moving Image Book Awards have been chosen as "exemplary demonstrations of originality and excellence in the fields of moving image and photography book publishing from the past year."
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sasha Kurmaz, winner of the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award for Red Horse (Éditions Images Vevey), reactded to her win, "The Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award is an incredible honour for me. The Red Horse is not just a photography book, it is a deeply personal story of my life, documented and embodied through artistic means. Therefore, to see it resonate at such a high level is an overwhelming and profoundly moving moment for me. I am immensely grateful to the jury for this recognition, as well as to express my sincere gratitude to the whole team of Images Vevey for their trust, support and shared vision in bringing this book to life."
Diane Smyth, editor of the British Journal of Photography and the Photoworks Annual, said of Sasha Kurmaz's winning entry, "A wild ride through the contemporary realities of war, Red Horse is also a moving meditation on the nature of photography and the value of individual experience. Rough, DIY and heartfelt, Kurmaz's collages abandon the apparently objective documentary image or photograph as a window on the world, to speak instead of how we relate to each other and how images now intersect with that. The book's relatively small proportions but numerous, fine-papered pages create a sense of compulsion and urgency -- this is art as expression and communication and the unanimous winner of the Award."
MOVING IMAGE
Onyeka Igwe winner of the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award for June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive (Lawrence Wishart) said of the win, "I'd like to thank the judges for recognising this book. My ambition when writing it was to celebrate the pioneering effort of June Givanni as well as showcase some of the many many films I encountered through the archive, Pan African films, that take the political potential of filmmaking seriously but also innovatively and inspire my own films."
Judge of the 2026 Moving Image Book Award, David Martin-Jones, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Glasgow, said of Onyeka Igwe's winning publication, "This eye-opening, rewarding and extremely enjoyable book illuminates how crucial the often unrewarded work of the film archive is to our collective remembrance of global filmmaking. If ever the words 'you must remember this' should be applied to a book about films, it is here. What jumps off the page is the labor of love involved in constructing a Pan-African Cinema Archive. More than this, the use of the film festivals analysed to trace a 'Pan-African liberatory cinema' was as effective as it was novel. This book does the valuable work of bringing to light what is in the archive and as such it is a real find."
ABOUT THE AWARDS
Since their inception in 1985, the Awards have reflected the changing landscape of photobook and moving image publishing, recognizing individuals who have made an outstanding original or lasting educational, professional, historical and cultural contribution to literature concerning photography or the moving image (including film, television, video and new media).
Past winners include leading figures from the worlds of photography and film including artists and writers such as Isaac Julien; Sunil Gupta; LaToya Ruby Frazier; Zanele Muholi; Edward Burtynsky; Susan Meiselas; Martin Parr; Larry J Schaaf; Mark Haworth-Booth; Griselda Pollock; David Campany and Simon Callow.
SHORTLISTS
The 12 selected titles, the winner followed by shortlisted titles, for the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award are:
- Red Horse by Sasha Kurmaz (Éditions Images Vevey) [winner]
- Index2025 by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (Roma Publications)
- The Fold by Hoda Afshar (Loose Joints)
- Too Many Products Too Much Pressure by Janet Delaney (Deadbeat Club)
And the longlisted titles include:
- A Reprise by David Alekhuogie (Aperture)
- Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain, edited by Renée Mussai (Thames & Hudson/ Autograph)
- It's Hard To Stop Rebels That Time Travel by Raymond Thompson Jr (Void)
- MAN by Erik Kessels and Karel De Mulder (RVB Books)
- Sound the Sirens by Bryan Anselm (Overlapse)
- Swan Moon's Swan Moon by Swan Moon (TBW Books)
- The Ramble NYC 1969 by Arthur Tress (Stanley / Barker)
- The Weight of the Word by Piero Martinello and Piero Casentini (Fw:Books)
The 10 selected titles for the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award are -
- June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive by Onyeka Igwe (Lawrence Wishart) [winner]
- Out There in the Dark by Katharine Coldiron (Autofocus Books)
- Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A. by Josslyn Jeanine Luckett (University of California Press)
And the longlisted titles include:
- Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, & Male Sex Appeal by Mark Gallagher (University of Texas Press)
- Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System by Katherine Fusco (Columbia University Press)
- Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen by Enrico Camporesi, Catherine de Smet and Philippe Millot (MUBI Editions)
- Shaping Global Cultures Through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds, edited by Rose Ferrell and Rosanne Welch (Intellect)
- The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema by Pao-chen Tang (Amsterdam University Press/ Routledge)
- Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973 by José Miguel Palacios (University of California Press)
- Understanding Video Activism on Social Media by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana (Intellect)