LONDON.- The archive, both historic and personal with questions of authorship and authenticity, dominates the themes of the longlisted titles for the 2026 edition of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, the UK’s leading prize celebrating excellence in photography and moving image publishing. In addition, deeply personal approaches to race, representation, identity, and sexuality; notions of ‘the other’; and the preservation and transformation of the past feature. Selected books are those which make original and lasting educational, professional, historical and cultural contributions to the field.

Following the longlist announcement, shortlisted publications will be announced in early June 2026. The winner of each category, sharing a £10,000 prize fund, will be announced at the end of June 2026. Events celebrating the 2026 Awards and the winners will take place in Autumn 2026 in London at the Barbican and the V&A, South Kensington.

The longlisted publications will be showcased by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation at this year’s Photo London (13 - 17 May 2026 - Booth P20, Publishers’ Section, National Hall, Level 1, Kensington Olympia, London) and POST, Brighton (3 - 5 July 2026).

Since their inception in 1985, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards have reflected the changing landscape of photobook and moving image publishing. 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.

The Longlisted Titles for the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award are -

● A Reprise by David Alekhuogie (Aperture)

● Black Chronicles: Photooftraphy, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain, edited by Renée Mussai (Thames & Hudson/ Autograph)

● Index2025 by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (Roma Publications)

● It’s Hard To Stop Rebels That Time Travel by Raymond Thompson Jr (Void)

● MAN by Erik Kessels and Karel De Mulder (RVB Books)

● Red Horse by Sasha Kurmaz (Éditions Images Vevey)

● Sound the Sirens by Bryan Anselm (Overlapse)

● Swan Moon’s Swan Moon by Swan Moon (TBW Books)

● The Fold by Hoda Afshar (Loose Joints)

● The Ramble NYC 1969 by Arthur Tress (Stanley / Barker)

● The Weioftht of the Word by Piero Martinello and Piero Casentini (Fw:Books)

● Too Many Products Too Much Pressure by Janet Delaney (Deadbeat Club)

The Longlisted Titles for the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award are -

● Cosmosexuals: Screen Actinoft, 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)

● June Givanni: The Makinoft of a Pan-African Cinema Archive by Onyeka Igwe (Lawrence Wishart)

● Out There in the Dark by Katharine Coldiron (Autofocus Books)

● Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen by Enrico Camporesi, Catherine de Smet, and Philippe Millot (MUBI Editions)

● Shapinoft Global Cultures Throuofth Screenwritinoft: Women Who Write Our Worlds edited by Rose Ferrell and Rosanne Welch (Intellect)

● The Animist Imaoftination in East Asian Cinema by Pao-chen Tang (Amsterdam University Press/ Routledge)

● Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A. by Josslyn Jeanine Luckett (University of California Press)

● Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973 by José Miguel Palacios (University of California Press)

● Understandinoft Video Activism on Social Media by Jens Eder; Britta Hartmann; and Chris Tedjasukmana (Intellect)

For the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards two winning titles are selected annually, with prize money of £10,000 divided equally between the winning title in the Photography category and the winning title in the Moving Image category. Since 1985 the Awards have recognised 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).



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