FELIFA invites photographers, artists, and publishers to participate in the FELIFA International Award for the Best Published Photobook, Edition 2023.
opening
August 8th
DEADLINE EXTENDED
october 5st
deadline for receiving physical books: October 13th
finalists announcement
November 6rd
To become a book, a photographic project must go through the stages of conceptualization, editing, sequencing, graphic design, and finally, materialization. These stages constitute the editorial process and are only made possible through the collaborative effort of various professionals involved. The FELIFA International Award seeks to highlight these stages, showcase the roles, and recognize the multiple areas of knowledge that make a photolibrary possible.
For this purpose, the award includes three categories that highlight the phases of the publication's development:
In each category, a group of finalist books will be selected, and one title will be chosen as the winner of that category. From all the finalist books, one will be distinguished as the Best Photobook, becoming the winner of the FELIFA International Award.
The winners of the categories and the FELIFA International Award will be announced during the 18th edition of FELIFA at the awards ceremony on Saturday, November 11th, 2023.
An exhibition of the awarded and finalist books will be inaugurated in December 2023 at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center of Memory in Buenos Aires and then travel to other partner institutions in Latin America during 2024 and part of 2025.
The exhibition will study the winning books, highlighting their particular characteristics and pointing out the editorial, design, and materialization decisions. It will be an exhibition that showcases the richness and complexity of editorial work.
Other venues will be added in the coming weeks.
Rosely Nakagawa was born in 1954 in São Paulo and is a curator and editor of art and photography. She has worked in cultural institutions such as Galeria Fotoptica, which she co-founded with Thomaz Farkaz in 1979. She created Espaço Cultural Citibank, where she served as a curator from 1985 to 1990. Later, from 1997 to 2004, she curated national and international exhibitions and portfolio reviews at Casa da Fotografia Fuji. Between 2004 and 2009, she was a curator at Galerías FNAC Brazil, where she published the collection and interviews in the book "Encontros com a Fotografia" (Encounters with Photography). She has worked in major Brazilian institutions as well as museums and cultural centers in Latin America, the United States, Japan, and Europe. Rosely Nakagawa curated exhibitions featuring artists such as Mario Cravo, Miguel Rio Branco, Leonardo Crescenti, Sebastião Salgado, Luiz Gonzáles Palma, Martin Chambi, among others.
Andrea Ostera is a visual artist and educator. She studied at the ICP (International Center of Photography) in 1993 and 1994, and at NYU (New York University) between 1990 and 2001. From 1997 to 1999, she was a recipient of the Kuitca Fellowship. In 2002, she received the Konex Award. Her most recent solo exhibitions include "Doble exposición" (ARCO, Madrid, 2023); "11 operaciones combinadas" (Diego Obligado Gallery, Rosario, 2019); "Persona" (CCK, Buenos Aires, 2018); and "Affaire" (C.C. Rojas, Buenos Aires, 2017). In collaboration with Gabriel Valansi, she presented "Preferencias del Sistema" (C.C. Borges, Buenos Aires, 2022), which is scheduled to be exhibited in August 2023 at the Museo Castagnino de Rosario as part of Bienalsur. In 2018, the book "Andrea Ostera. Obras/Works 1994-2017" was published. She works as a teacher at Escuela Musto and is involved in the collective Camarada. Andrea Ostera resides and works in Rosario.
Visual artist, teacher and editor. He works in contexts where references disappear to become revealing metaphors of the shortcomings in our society. His work "XY XX" was published by the Dalpine publishing house in 2014. He has received the FotoPres grant from the Fundación “la Caixa” twice and a Visual Arts Creation Grant from the Community of Madrid in 2019. Their work has been featured in various exhibitions, including the Arlés Festival in 2017, PhotoEspaña'14, the Glass Tank Gallery at the Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom, among others. Their most ambitious educational project, Blank Paper Escuela, has allowed them to train, exhibit, and promote the work of an entire generation of innovative authors in the Iberian visual imaginary. Currently, they are involved in various educational programs and collaborate with several training centers. They were also a co-founder of Fiebre Photobook. One of their latest edited books, "Woman Go’No Gree" by Gloria Oyarzabal, received the Best Photobook of the Year award at the Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards in 2020.
Judges: Valentina Avenaboli, Ricardo Baez y Verónica Sanchis Bencomo.
BEST PHOTOBOOK
La casa que sangra
Yael Martínez (Mexico-Peru)
BEST EDITION
Utaki
Ricardo Tokugawa (Brazil)
BEST GRAPHIC DESIGN
Horse
Heleen Peeters (Netherlands)
BEST GRAPHIC PRODUCTION
Still Life
Lucas Lenci (Brazil)
Judges: Andrea Jösch, Albertina Carri, Alejandro Ros.
BEST PHOTOBOOK
Héroes del brillo
Federico Estol (Uruguay)
FIRST MENTION
46750
João Pina (Portugal)
SECOND MENTION
The Restoration Will
Mayumi Suzuki (Japan)
Judges: Lucrecia Martel, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Luis Weinstein.
BEST PHOTOBOOK
Point of lovely sun
Pilar Villasegura, David Leda y Federico Paladino (Argentina)
HONORABLE MENTION
El libro de la selva
Yan Gross (Switzerland-Spain)
MENTION
Policía
Fernando Fujimoto (Perú)
MENTION
Al otro lado
Misha Vallejo (Brazil)
MENTION
Recruit
Hiroshi Okamoto (Japan)
All creators of photobooks published between November 2021 and September 2023 by independent or commercial publishers and institutions or self-published by authors themselves in editions of at least 50 copies can participate.
Books published through Editorial La Luminosa or other books related to the FELIFA team or to members of the jury can be part of the exhibition but cannot be selected as finalists or awarded any prizes in any category.
Participating books can be submitted by authors, publishers or a third party acting on their behalf, as long as they have authorization to do so. Each participant can submit more than one book but a separate registration must be made for each title. The same book cannot be presented by more than one person.
The jury will evaluate each submission and select:
The jury reserves the right to declare the prize null and void.
The jury's decision is final and cannot be appealed.
All participating books will be exhibited during the FELIFA festival from November 9th to 12th, 2023, at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center of Memory in Buenos Aires.
All finalists and winning books will be awarded a traveling exhibition organized by FELIFA. The exhibition will take place at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center of Memory from December 2023 to February 2024 and then travel to various centers in Latin America between 2024 and 2025 in a co-production with the participating venues and institutions.
Participating books are invited to become part of the TURMA Library, open to the entire community of photographers, publishers, students, and researchers, where they are cataloged. TURMA contributes to their circulation and it is a resource for photographers, scholars and the community.
Those who do not wish to donate the submitted books to the library should specify it in the registration form and send the book with the corresponding return postage fee paid in advance.
To participate in the award you must:
FELIFA is not responsible for books lost or damaged in transit.
Non-compliance with any of the points mentioned above will result in automatic disqualification from the competition.
October 5th, 2023, 23:59 (Argentina time, GMT-3) - deadline for entering the competition. Deadline extended.
October 13th, 2023 - deadline for receiving physical books. It is essential to ensure that the date on the postal stamp is on or before October 5th, 2023. Books that have not arrived by October 10th 2023 will be excluded from participating in the award and the exhibition.
November 6th, 2023 - Announcement of finalist books.
9th to 12th November 2023 - Exhibition of all participating books at FELIFA.
November 11th, 2023 - Announcement of the winning books.
December 2023 to February 2024 - Exhibition of the winning and finalist books at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center of Memory.
March 2024 to March 2025 - Traveling Exhibition across Latin America.
The organizers of the festival reserve the right to reschedule the dates of the event and the 2023 FELIFA International Award.
The winners commit to providing any other information and/or documentation necessary for the exhibitions and dissemination of the Award
The authors participating in the call authorize the FELIFA Festival to use the images of the submitted books solely for the purpose of promoting and disseminating the award and related activities.
Any circumstance not foreseen in this call will be resolved by the organizers of the award.
