FREE ENTRY / Paper Photo Award 2025

We invite you to submit your entries to the international Paper Photo Award 2025 competition dedicated entirely to photographic publications! Category: “Photobook”:

1. What publications can be submitted?

   
   

   1.1. We accept publications in the “photobook” category that have been published in paper form and are a separate, original artistic expression in which photography plays a primary role. The basic criterion for evaluation in the competition is how the artistic expression resonates in book form. The photographs in the project are not evaluated, but rather the photobook as a specific creative expression. The book may be published by a publishing house or self-published, provided that the print run is at least 30 copies.

   
   

   1.2. Publications published between January 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025, are eligible for submission.

2. Awards

   
   

   1.1. Main prize: PLN 10,000! [approximately: 2300 EURO]

   
   

   1.2. Six photobooks will be shortlisted, and their authors will be invited to Katowice (Poland) for a meet-and-greet during the festival’s opening weekend, for which they will receive a gross remuneration of PLN 1,000. In addition, the festival will provide them with accommodation during the opening weekend.

   
   

   1.3. Each member of the jury will award their own individual honorary distinction.

   
   

   1.4. Approximately 30 photobooks will be presented as part of the Paper Photo Award 2025 exhibition at Galeria Pusta in Katowice.

3. Dates

   
   

   1.1. Start of the competition: September 5, 2025

   
   

   1.2. End of book submission: October 15, 2025 (the date of delivery of the book is decisive!)

   
   

   1.3. Announcement of the shortlist: by October 17, 2025

   
   

   1.4. Announcement of the winner and opening of the post-competition exhibition: October 25, 2025.