Edition Braus : European Publishers Award for Photography 2010 - closing date for entries on 31 March!

This year, Edition Braun invites potential participators to join in the European Publishers Award for Photography once more. Applicants are asked to submit a complete and unpublished photo book project by 31 March 2010.

The six involved publishers will release the winner’s work simultaneously in six languages. Artists of all nationalities are welcome to enter the competition.

The event will take place for the 17th time and this year the winner will be determined by a panel of judges in Athens. The award is issued by Actes Sud (France), Apeiron Photos (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (Great Britain), Edition Braus (Germany), Lunwerg Editores (Spain) and Peliti Associati (Italy).

Until 2008, the award ran under the name of LEPAP, supported by Leica. Since then, the Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG joined the circle of supporters. Despite the new name, EPAP is dedicated to cultivating contemporary photography. Detailed information for applicants can be found here.

The following photographers have won in the past:

1994 Dario Mitidieri: Kinder von Bombay
1995 Shanta Rao: Queens of Saba
1996 Brude Gilden: Haiti
1997 Toni Catany: Photographs
1998 Dean Chapman: Karenni
1999 Jeff Mermelstein: Sidewalk
2000 Alfons Alt: Bestiarium
2001 David Farrell: Innocent Landscapes
2002 Simon Norfolk: Afghanistan Zero
2003 Haris Kakarouhas: Buena Vista Cuba
2004 Harri Kallio: Die Wiedergeburt des Dodo
2005 Lorenzo Castore: Paradiso
2006 Ambroise Tézenas: Peking
2007 Paolo Pellegrin: As I was Dying
2008 Jacob Aue Sobol: I, Tokyo

In 2009, the winner was Klavdij Sluban and his project “Go East”, which enables the viewer to ride the trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Peking, over Lhasa, from the Baltic to the Black Sea. His B&W photographs construe the passing landscape's topography, its history and its scars. He does not document an objective reality, but catches singular, precious moments through the eyes of a passionate traveller.

Klavdij Sluban, born in 1963, grew up in Slovenia and Paris. He undertook numerous journeys and took his camera to the Balkans, Japan, China and many other corners of the world. His pictures have been shown in exhibitions all over the world, such as at the Photokina 2008, in Jakarta, Shanghai, Helsinki and Paris.

Klavdij Sluban – Go East
Introduction by Erri de Luca
120 Pages
70 Pictures
ISBN 978-3-89466-306-3
EUR 39.90