Photobook Award EI 2022

As part of the 32nd edition of Encontros da Imagem - International Photography and Visual Arts festival, the open call for the Photobook Awards EI 2022 is now open until the 15th of May, 2022.

Aware that the publication of photography books has gained, in recent years, a leading role in the promotion of photography projects through creative processes of storytelling, it’s Encontros da Imagem intention to promote independent authors as well as their body of work. In that way the festival proposes to be a privileged channel for its dissemination and promotion, carrying out the Photobook Award EI 2022, inviting all interested artist to submit an application with their photobook.

Only self made photobooks will be accepted, author books, with more or less handcrafted production, original, personal and independent. It won’t be considered valid an application whose books have been published or received a commitment to publish from any publisher until the moment of application. If the project is a dummy, it should be the closest to its final form, in the materials used and its format.

Besides the monetary prizes 1st place 750€, 2nd place 500€, 3rd place, 250€, the 30 finalist photobooks will be part of a collective exhibition that will happen between the 16th of September and the 30th of October in Braga, during the festival.