Joanna Piotrowska Wins 2014 First Book Award

April 30, 2014 Marco | Editor

Polish photographer Joanna Piotrowska has won the 2014 First Book Award for Frowst, a study of familial relationships through staged photographs, award sponsors announced today.

Piotrowska’s project will be published this June by MACK Books, which co-administers the award with Britain’s National Media Museum.

The First Book Award, now in its third year, is open to photographers who have not previously released a book project with a publisher. However self-published and print-on-demand projects do not disqualify a photographer.

Judges for this year’s award included publisher Michael Mack; National Media Museum curator of photographs Greg Hobson; Wilson Centre …read more

Via: PDN Pulse

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