Category: Best Photography Book Award
Winner Gerd Ludwig
Freelance
"The Long Shadow of Chernobyl"
Finalist Justyna Mielnikiewicz
Self-published
"Woman with a monkey"
Finalist David Bergman
PSG
"BON JOVI: WORK"
Finalist Kacper Kowalski
Migavka
"SIDE EFFECTS"
Finalist Amy Toensing, Stephanie Sinclair, Diane Cook, Maggie Steber, Jodi Cobb, Erika Larsen, Beverly Joubert, Lynn Johnson, Lynsey Addario, Carolyn Drake, Kitra Cahana, Photo Editor: Elizabeth Krist, Design Director: Marianne R. Koszorus, Senior Editor: Hilary Black, Editor: Gail Spilsbury, Writers: Marian Holmes, Rena Silverman
National Geographic
"Women of vision"
Finalist Pierpaolo Mittica
Editor/Publisher: Comune de Pordenone
"Ahes/Ceneri"
Finalist Robert Nickelsberg
Prestel Verlag
"Afghanistan: A distant war"
Finalist Zun Lee
Ceiba
"Father figure"
Winner
Gerd Ludwig
Freelance
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Kharytina Desha, 92, is one of the few elderly people who have returned to their village homes inside the Exclusion Zone. Although surrounded by devastation and isolation, she prefers to die on her own soil. [Teremtsy, Ukraine, 2011]