The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards honors beautiful publications, and this time a Hungarian artist’s book on motherhood was chosen as the best.
Since its foundation in 1985, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards have been the most important prize for books on photography and cinematography in the UK. Each year, a few prizes are awarded to the most outstanding photographic and cinematographic publications, with a cash prize of £5,000 each. The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, which has been awarding the prize since 1985, was set up by Andor Kraszna-Krausz, the founder of the Hungarian-born writer and publisher Focal Press, who passed away in 1989.
This year’s best book in the cinematic category was Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass, which pairs Isaac Julien’s photographs with essays by Frederick Douglass, based on the film installation of the same title, premiered in 2019.
In the photography book category, Andi Gáldi Vinkó’s Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back won. The internationally acclaimed photographer’s work has been published in major international magazines such as the New Yorker, Dazed, and Vogue. With the birth of her children, she began to explore motherhood with unflinching honesty, showing all the physical and emotional, dark, traumatic, and rosy-cheery, but always real, aspects of motherhood. Gáldi Vinkó has captured herself, her children, her friends, her partner, and her mother in the photographs, which appear on the pages of the book, paired with nature shots. Her work was exhibited last year at the Deák Erika Gallery under the same title.
The book is published by Trolley Books, London.
Source and photos: Kraszna-Krausz Foundation
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