The prestigious Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards just announced its 2026 winner, from the initial 12 shortlisted titles, Sasha Kurmaz’s Red Horse emerged as the overall winner. Sharing the £10,000 prize with Onyeka Igwe, who took home the Moving Image Book Award for June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive.
The Award teamed up with POST, a Brighton-based arts space, this year to create a Photobook Weekender, a two-day celebration scheduled for 4-5 July 2026, showcasing all the winning titles from the longlist, complemented by photobook-related artist talks, workshops, and discussions. Tickets are £11 for general admission or £6 for students. For more information, visit Kraszna-krausz.org.
Kraszna-Krausz Book Award winner: Sasha Kurmaz – Red Horse (Éditions Images Vevey)
Red Horse brings together the visual diary that Kurmaz has kept since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It includes a series of personal documentary photographs, found images and collages alongside drawings and things found on the street. Painting a picture of Kormuz’s personal experience of living under constant threat.
Sasha Kurmaz said,“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.”
Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award winner: Onyeka Igwe – June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive (Lawrence Wishart)
Igwe, in collaboration with BAFTA Award-winning curator and film programmer June Givanni, explores how female influence has shaped Pan-African cinema history through examining Givanni’s private archives spanning more than 40 years of African and Caribbean cinema history.
Onyeka Igwe said, “The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive (Lawrence Wishart) says 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.”
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