2024 PhotoBOOK Prize Recipients Announced!
The New Orleans Photo Alliance is delighted to announce our inaugural annual PhotoNOLA PhotoBOOK Prize, celebrating creativity and excellence in photobook publishing. This prize is an opportunity for artists to showcase their work to photography peers, industry professionals, collectors, and enthusiasts during the annual PhotoNOLA PhotoBOOK Fair. Congratulations to the 2024 Prize winners! We received so many amazing submissions. Thank you to our esteemed jurors Eliot Dudik and Michelle Dunn Marsh, and thank you to our phenomenal PhotoBOOK Fair Chair, Ashley Gates.
Grand Prize Winner:
Ryan Mitchell, Thank You For Your Service?
Award of Excellence Winner:
Christine Rogers, The Dream Pool
Award of Excellence Winner:
Kyle Worthy, Oxford Gothic
Louisiana Award of Excellence Winner:
Frank Hamrick, When the light becomes eternal
Louisiana Award of Excellence, Honorable Mention:
Jonathan Traviesa, Immaculate Perception
About the Jurors
Eliot Dudik is an American photographer and book maker based in Richmond, Virginia. He works in long form photography and book projects, of which he has produced several handmade and traditionally published editions. When he is not teaching in the classroom at William & Mary, Eliot focuses a significant amount of his time mentoring, collaborating, and teaching photobook workshops. His books and prints are collected by places like the National Gallery of Art, Yale University, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Duke University, Cassilhaus, Chrysler Museum of Art, Do Good Fund, among others.
Eliot founded the photography program within the Department of Art & Art History at the College of William & Mary in 2014 where he continues to teach and learn. Also in December of 2014, Eliot participated in the PhotoNOLA Review, and was so pleased to have received the PhotoNOLA Review Prize that year! He is beyond thrilled to be coming back ten years later to help jury the inaugural PhotoNOLA Photobook Prize and lead a workshop in editing & sequencing for the photobook.
Michelle Dunn Marsh is a publishing veteran with nearly thirty years in the field, and a first generation American of Indo-Burmese and Irish descent. She has served in design and editorial roles on both coasts, and lectured internationally on photoliteracy and visual books. She holds a BA from Bard College, and a Masters in Publishing from Pace University.
Minor Matters is a collaborative publishing platform, creating books with our authors and the participation of our audience. We develop titles that explore the surface of life today, bringing insight and cadence to the worlds we occupy. We believe the book remains a meaningful vessel of knowledge that holds our present for the future, and we seek exceptional vision, perspective and a commitment to craft in our artist authors.
