The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation is delighted to announce the 2021 Photography Book Award has been jointly awarded to artists Sunil Gupta for Sunil Gupta: From Here To Eternity edited by Mark Sealy (Autograph) and Maria Kapajeva for Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear (Milda Books).
Editors Marie-Hélène Gutberlet and Brigitta Kuster win the Moving Image Book Award for their books On the Run: Perspectives on the Cinema of Med Hondo and 1970—2018 Interviews with Med Hondo (co-published by Archive Books and Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst).
The winners will be celebrated in two digital events presented in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery on the 1st and 3rd June 2021
Photography Book Award Winners event:
Maria Kapajeva and Sunil Gupta in conversation, chaired by Monica Allende
Tuesday 1 June 2021, 6.30-7.30pm
Presented online in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery
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Sunil Gupta and Maria Kapajeva will discuss their award-winning books in this live-streamed event. Joining them is curator and editor Monica Allende, who will be chairing the conversation. There will be opportunity for audience Q&As following the discussion. The artists will discuss common threads shared by both their books – including the power of community, use of personal archival material and how lived experience can be distilled into book form.
In ‘From Here to Eternity’ Sunil Gupta’s unique vision and political practice is explored alongside his activism and instrumental efforts for LGBTQ+ rights across his career. The book weaves in intimate family and personal moments from Gupta’s past to form a detailed and richly personal portrait of the artist.
Maria Kapajeva’s book, ‘Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear’ is an extraordinary journey through contemporary social history and personal memory. Drawing on experiences of her childhood community in Estonia in the lead up to transition to independence from Russian State control, Kapajeva’s beautifully designed publication explores female collectivity, community and independence.
Moving Image Book Award Winners event:
Marie-Hélène Gutberlet and Brigitta Kuster on the work of Med Hondo
Thursday 3 June 2021, 6.30-7.30pm
Presented online in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery
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Marie-Hélène Gutberlet and Brigitta Kuster will speak about the process of editing their volumes on the work of Med Hondo, his career and cinematic legacy.
Gutberlet and Kuster’s books offer a rich insight and tribute into the life works of the late multi-faceted filmmaker and pioneer of African cinema, Med Hondo (1936-2019), capturing the scope and spirit of his practices. Hondo’s work centres around the question of what cinema means from an African perspective and examine a long history of colonialism, racism and cultural ignorance that remains pertinent today.
Our thanks go to the judges of the 2021 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards:
Moving Image: Erika Balsom, Steven Bode and Gideon Koppel
Photography: Patrizia Di Bello, Anna Fox and Jennie Ricketts
Find out more about the winning books and the rest of the 2021 short and longlists here
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