The New Orleans Photo Alliance is delighted to announce our second 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, and collectors during the annual PhotoNOLA Photobook Fair at Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Eligibility: Open to any artist who has published a photobook within the past 5 years (December 2020-December 2025). Self-published titles are welcomed and encouraged!
Special Consideration: The Louisiana Award of Excellence will be allocated to a Louisiana resident, ensuring continued support for our local artist community. Louisiana applicants will be considered for all three prizes.

PRIZES:

Grand Prize
$500
Silver membership to the New Orleans Photo Alliance
Commemorative trophy
Opportunity to be included in the 2025 Photobook Prize table at the 2026 PhotoNOLA PhotoWALK and Photobook Fair

Award of Excellence
Silver membership to the New Orleans Photo Alliance
Commemorative trophy
Opportunity to be included in the 2025 Photobook Prize table at the 2026 PhotoNOLA PhotoWALK and Photobook Fair

Louisiana Award of Excellence
Silver membership to the New Orleans Photo Alliance
Commemorative trophy
Opportunity to be included in the 2025 Photobook Prize table at the 2026 PhotoNOLA PhotoWALK and Photobook Fair

JUROR: 

BILL BOLING

Fall Line Press
William Boling resides and works in Milledgeville, Georgia. Boling’s projects such as 52, Never Gone, Southern Places of Arts and Letters, and You Ain’t Wrong have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Atlanta, New York, and internationally. He has exhibited in the New Museum in New York, the Window Gallery at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and for Atlanta Celebrates Photography’s 11th Annual Public Art Project Gifted. Boling’s work is held in many public and private collections. Bill studied photography under Stephen Shore during the early 2000s at Bard College. In addition to his art practice, he runs an independent photobook publishing company called Fall Line Press in Milledgeville.

DEADLINE: Sunday, December 7, 11:59pm

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