Paris Photo x Aperture 2023 Photobook Awards Recognize Feminist Memory Project and El Gobierno te Odia

Congratulations to the two Magnum Foundation-supported projects that were recognized by this year’s Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards!

Winner - Photography Catalog of the Year

The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project
Diwas Raja Kc and NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati
Nepal Picture Library / photo.circle, Kathmandu, Nepal

Since 2018, Nepal Picture Library has been collecting photographs and other archival materials with the objective of creating an open visual repository of feminist experiences in Nepal. The Public Life of Women, originally curated as an exhibition, showcases selections from this archive. Put together from contributions made by over 150 individuals and organizations, this photobook flashes instances from the past to present publicness itself as a key feminist strategy in Nepal.

Shortlist - First PhotoBook

El Gobierno Te Odia
Christopher Gregory-Rivera
Self-published, Penumbra Foundation, New York

Replete with primary textual and visual evidence, El Gobierno Te Odia illuminates and critiques the violent and systematic suppression of government surveillance during a pivotal time in the Puerto Rican independence movement.