The fast-growing interest in photobooks worldwide has paved a new way for showcasing and appreciating photography in Asia.
The SIPF Photobook Open Call hopes to foster greater creative exchange and bring fresh inspiration to the local scene, by assembling a collection of the most creative photobooks from all over the world in one exhibition.
In this inaugural edition, 82 finalists are selected out of over 200 submissions by an international panel. The finalist showcase debuts in Singapore and will eventually travel to other Asian cities to engage a wider audience.
The two winners from the Photobook Open Call have been selected and announced on 21 September during the Photobook Party at National Design Center.

Winner for Publishing Opportunity with Steidl:
The Hotel by Tenzing Dakpa

Winner for Printing Prize with Dominie Press:
The Abeyant Nursery by Quinn Lum
Find out more about the shortlisted titles here.
Finalists:
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Tequila 177
 Alessio Zemoz (Italy)
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Peripher
 Andreas Tschersich (Switzerland)
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Go there I do not know where, take a picture of that I do not know what
 Andrey Ivanov (Russia)
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A Spoonful of Sugar
 Ann Shelton (New Zealand)
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Home Sweet Home
 Anton Gautama (Indonesia)
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Arkanum
 Aras Gökten (Germany)
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Colourful Passport
 Berkay Tezcan (Turkey)
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Seasonal Abandonment Of Imaginary Worlds
 Carine Thévanau (Australia)
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Piedra-Padre, Universo
 Clara de Tezanos (Guatemala)
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Never Standing on Two Feet
 Clara Rae (Australia)
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Timor Runguranga
 David Palazón (Spain)
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Keep the Cages Open Before You Leave
 Dmitry Khovanskiy (Russia)
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Black
 Dominika Sadowska (Poland)
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End, is the starting point of our departure
 Eric WK Ng (Singapore)
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Los Mundos de Tita (The Worlds of Tita)
 Fabiola Cedillo (Ecuador)
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Human
 Gábor Arion Kudász (Hungary)
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our breaths are short, this breeze untameable
 Genevieve Leong (Singapore)
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Wallet
 George Wong Yung Choon (Singapore)
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Ways into North Korea
 George Wong Yung Choon (Singapore)
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The Shibayamas
 Giancarlo Shibayama (Peru)
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Beautiful Illusions: Aesthetics and Wartime Ideology of Imperial Japan
 Goh Ying Min (Singapore)
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Four Generations
 Guilherme Bergamini (Brazil)
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Hear my Fear
 Hamdi Rubiyanto (Indonesia)
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I’ll Be Looking At The Moon, But I’ll Be Seeing You
 Harikrishna Katragadda (India)
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Around 42nd and 7th
 Hiro Tanaka (Japan)
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In Belief is Power
 Hristina Tasheva (Bulgaria)
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ARCHIPIÉLAGO
 Hugo Alcol (Spain)
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Supreme India
 James Talalay (United States)
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Home Instruction Manual
 Jan McCullough (Ireland)
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Wild West
 Joachim Hildebrand (Germany)
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Tsukiji: Memories of a Market
 Joel Fong (Singapore)
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Mystery is a Compass
 Jonathan Liu (Singapore)
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The Act
 Julian Fullerton-Batten (United Kingdom)
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Over
 Kacper Kowalski (Poland)
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To tell my real intentions, I want to eat only haze like a hermit
 Katherine Longly (Belgium)
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Subtle Beauty
 Kazuhiko Matsumura (Japan)
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Of Hope and Fear
 Kensaku Seki (Japan)
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Color Me Gone
 Kevin German (United States)
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One-Car-Bazaar
 Kevin Kunstadt (United States)
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Jomnye (Women Divers)
 Kim Hungku (South Korea)
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NEPO Film
 Lin Shean Tung (Taiwan)
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Salad
 Loh Xiang Yun (Singapore)
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…there is no end
 Louis Lim & Beth Jackson (Australia)
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“The Other Side”
 Magda Biernat (United States)
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Like Sugar in Milk
 Majlend Bramo (Italy)
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Separate Hidden Rules
 Makoto Oono (Japan)
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Regarding You & Me. Six attempts to get closer to my father
 Marijn Kuijper (Netherlands)
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Mimetic
 Mark Purdom (Australia)
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High Culture
 Marta Wódz (Poland)
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Margins of Excess
 Max Pinckers (Belgium)
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The Cedar Lodge
 Maya Meissner (United States)
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Critical Mass
 Michael Danner (Germany)
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Hodophylax: The Guardian of the Path
 Michiko Hayashi (Japan)
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One Flesh
 Olga Boltneva (Russia)
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Once there lived
 Olga Titova (Russia)
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24 poses égyptiennes / Twenty-four Egyptian exposures
 Pascal Cavin (Switzerland)
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Yes Madam, Sorry Ah Sir
 Paul Yeung Ming (Hong Kong)
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Violated Flesh
 Priscilia Kheng (Singapore)
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Kick It Out and Kill It (2018)
 Qinrui Hua (United States)
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The Abeyant Nursery
 Quinn Lum (Singapore)
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M1
 Ricky Adam (Ireland)
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ATENEA
 Roger Grasas (Spain)
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To: The Other World
 Shannon Sim (Singapore)
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Frame
 Shannon Sim (Singapore)
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Dark Cities Trilogy
 Shyue Woon (Singapore)
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You taught me how to be a butterfly only so you could break my wings
 Sina Niemeyer (Italy)
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Dream City
 Srinivas Kuruganti (United States)
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6 not taken // You Deserve Hell
 Steffen Kolster Poulsen (Denmark)
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Lotus Well
 Sung Nam-Hun (South Korea)
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Permission to Remain
 Tammy Law (Australia)
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The Hotel
 Tenzing Dakpa (India)
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In (coherence) The Anthropocene
 Timothy Wee (Singapore)
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Lost Takes
 Tobias Bijl (Netherlands)
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More Cars, Clothes and Cabbages
 Torsten Schumann (Germany)
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Signos
 Veejay Villafranca (Philippines)
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Eden
 Vittorio Mortarotti (Italy)
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Chimera
 Vladimíra Kotra (Czech Republic)
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Some Pictures of Representation
 Woong Soak Teng (Singapore)
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Hiroshima Graph – Rabbits Abandon their Children
 Yoshikatsu Fujii (Japan)
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Green Pigeon
 Yoshiko Mogi (Japan)
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 Yuen Nga-Chi (Hong Kong)
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Phoenix 火の鳥
 Yuki Iwanami (Japan)


