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