In addition to the prize recipients’ book being presented at the Tokyo Art Book Fair, an exhibition was held at Totodo in Tokyo, an event at Tenderbooks in London, as well as a book launch at BOOK AND SONS in Tokyo.
(In alphabetical order)
François Halard
François Halard is a highly prolific and influential French photographer within interior, art and architecture, known especially for his sophisticated style and his profound affection for contemporary artists and their habitats, as extensively depicted in several of his books. Since 2017, Halard has primarily focused his artist monographs on personal series by honoring e.g. the late artist Saul Leiter (Saul Leiter, 2017), his father (Papa, 2019) during preceding days to his passing, Polaroids from isolation in his unimitative hôtel particulier (56 Days in Arles, 2020), and lent older archival works for the Libraryman commissioned title I Close My Eyes, Then I Drift Away (Katrien De Blauwer, 2018). As of late, Halard has incorporated painting in his photography.
Tamsin Clark
Tamsin Clark is a bookseller, publisher and book-maker. Tamsin is the owner of Tenderbooks, a space for experimental publishing in central London. Tenderbooks programmes regular exhibitions and events by contemporary artists who work with printed matter in expanded forms. The bookstore is also committed to showing rare and avant-garde books alongside new titles. Projects to date have featured works by AA Bronson and General Idea, Cory Arcangel, Chris Marker, Thurston Moore and Ecstatic Peace Library, Cady Noland and Carolee Schneemann. Tamsin also makes artist books with her friend Richard Bevan under the imprint Setsuko. These books often relate to cinema history and iconography. Tamsin is interested in how carefully sequenced images tell stories.
Tony Cederteg
Tony Cederteg is the founder and publisher of Libraryman.
In addition to the prize recipients’ book being presented at Offprint Paris, a book launch was held at Librairie Yvon Lambert in Paris.
(In alphabetical order)
Aliki Christoforou (GR/BE)
Joséphine Douet (FR)
Liss Fenwick (AU)
Oliver Lwowski (DE)
Sophie Stafford (GB)
Haydée Touitou
Haydée Touitou is the co-founder of The Skirt Chronicles, a magazine exploring literature and photography. In 2018, the magazine was the recipient of the Editor of the Year prize at the Stack Awards in London. Haydée is also a contributing editor for Apartamento, curator of Librairie Haydée for BOOK/SHOP, as well as the author of We Have Been Meaning To, her first book of poetry, which was shortlisted for the Photo- Text Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles, 2020. She lives and works in Paris, France.
Michael Lang
Michael Lang is a photography and photobook collector based in New York. A former Co-Director of 10×10 Photobooks, he organized numerous 10×10 Salons and co-edited several book-on-books publications, including How We See: Photobooks by Women (2018) and 10×10 Japanese Photobooks (2014).
Tony Cederteg
Tony Cederteg is the founder and publisher of Libraryman.
In addition to the prize recipients’ book being presented at Offprint Paris, a book launch was held at Librairie Yvon Lambert in Paris.
(In alphabetical order)
Adam Bellefeuil (US)
Feiyi Wen (CN)
Iringó Demeter (RO)
Joe Lai (FR)
Lauryn Holmquist (US)
Annemarieke van Drimmelen
Annemarieke van Drimmelen is a Dutch artist who predominantly work within fashion. Her work is a quest to portray real intimacy. Her own career as a model gave her fluency in fashion imagery and the confidence to follow her own vision. Her unique sensibility combined with her unaffected warmth creates an indefinable and uncommon level of trust with her subjects. Departing from traditional fashion photography, Annemarieke’s work is sophisticated, romantic, narrative and rich with emotion. Her first book Tadaima was published by Libraryman in 2019. She divides her time between Amsterdam and New York.
Gerry Johansson
Gerry Johansson is a prominent and modest icon within Swedish photography, worldly known for his geographically focused publications such as Amerika (1998), Sverige (2005) and Antarktis (2014), the latter published by Libraryman — as well the special projects Dalen (2010), Tree Stone Water (2015) and Tyre Choice (2017). His practice focuses on demonstrating the effect people have on their surroundings and how vast cities change over time. There has currently been nearly 30 books published of his work.
Katrien De Blauwer
Belgian artist Katrien De Blauwer explores her medium of ”photography without a camera”. After studies in painting and fashion, De Blauwer began delving into a wayward artistic practice by collecting imagery from old magazines and newspapers — as a therapeutic self investigation, of which became the foundation of her work. In creating her own collages, De Blauwer reveals an inner realm as she initiate anonymous and cinematic narrations. Lately she has been experimenting with paint and crayons — bearing an additional layer of colors to the stories she tells. For her fourth title on Libraryman, I Close My Eyes, Then I Drift Away (2019), she was commissioned to entirely work from archival photographs by French photographer François Halard.
Tony Cederteg
Tony Cederteg is the founder and publisher of Libraryman.
In addition to the prize recipients’ book being presented at the NY Art Book Fair, a presentation was held with 10x10 Photobooks in New York, as well as a book launch at Librairie Yvon Lambert in Paris.
(In alphabetical order)
Chelsea Mosher (US)
Jamie Murray (GB)
Louise Desnos (FR)
Lucile Boiron (FR)
Luis Alberto Rodriguez (US)
Ron Jude
Ron Jude’s photographs, which often explore the nexus between place, memory and narrative, have been exhibited widely since 1992. His depiction of financial districts across North America (Executive Model, 2012) and the imagination of his grandfather’s daydreaming as a kiln operator in an industrial plant (Vitreous China, 2016), equally share a penetrative and poetic force, and were respectively published by Libraryman. Jude lectures extensively and internationally about his work and is an associate professor of art at University of Oregon where he teaches photography in the School of Art + Design. With an exacting sensitivity and lore of his craft, he is the author of ten books.
Bryony Lloyd
Bryony Lloyd is Managing Director of Antenne Books; a distributor for independent publishers, based in London, UK. Antenne Books specialises in photography publications, working with leading international photobook publishers. Antenne has been responsible for bringing established and emerging photographers’ publications to stores for almost a decade — always with a taste for the unique, compelling and relevant.
Tony Cederteg
Tony Cederteg is the founder and publisher of Libraryman.
The Libraryman Award was an annual photobook prize for unpublished works by artists within photography. All winning projects were edited and designed by Tony Cederteg, in consultation with each prize recipient, and further released and distributed worldwide as part of the Libraryman catalogue.
Between 2019–2022, the Libraryman Award was kindly supported by Göteborgstryckeriet and Arctic Paper. We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all submitting artists, our cooperation partners and each year’s jurors.
In due time, a redesigned award for photographic talents will be instituted. Further information will be announced in 2024.
