A great success of the book “Strajk / Strike” by Rafał Milach, published by Jednostka Gallery! The publication won in the AUTHOR BOOK AWARD category in The Book Awards 2022 (Les Prix du Livre 2022) at the Les Rencontres de la Photographie festival in Arles, France! This is one of the two most prestigious photo book competitions in the world. For the first time in the history of the competition, a Polish book won the first prize!
The Book Awards 2022 awards were announced by a jury of photo book experts during the opening week of the Les Rencontres de la Photographie festival in Arles (Rencontres d’Arles) at Théâtre Antique, Arles on Tuesday 5 July 2022.
“Strajk / Strike” by Rafał Milach previously won the prestigious Photo Book of the Year 2021 award in the Grand Press Photo 2022 competition of the Press magazine in Poland.
Allow a few words from Rafał and us:
“We would like to thank the activists and all those who are not afraid to take a stand against human rights violations, we thank them for their courage, perseverance, concern for discriminated and excluded communities.
The book “Strike” is the result of teamwork, cooperation. Huge thanks to the co-authors of the book: Ania Nałęcka-Milach, Ola Jasionowska, Karolina Gembara, Iwona Kurz, Aleksandra Boćkowska.
Especially today we appreciate the importance of cooperation and solidarity.
Slava Ukraini!”
THE BOOK AWARDS 2022
Created at the founding of the festival, the Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards support each year with renewed fervor, the extraordinary creativity of photographic publishing, and strive to be one of the major actors for its wide dissemination. Since 2015, The Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Ecriture et la Littérature is the main partner of these Awards.
The pre-jury for the 2022 Book Awards, composed of professionals in the field of photography publishing, met mid-June at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie to study more than 700 applications from over 34 different countries, offering a rich and varied panorama of contemporary publishing and photographic practice.
For this 2022 edition, 78 works have been shortlisted, all categories included, and will be exhibited throughout the festival, in the space dedicated to the different publishing awards of the Rencontres in the Espace Van Gogh.
Jury: Julie Jones, Lukas Hoffmann, Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Sophie Queval.
Photographs: Rafał Milach
Editing & sequencing: Rafał Milach
Cover graphics: Ola Jasionowska
Book design: Ania Nałęcka-Milach & Rafał Milach
Texts: Aleksandra Boćkowska, Karolina Gembara, Iwona Kurz
Managing editor: Joanna Osiewicz-Lorenzutti
Translations: Stefan Lorenzutti, Joanna Osiewicz-Lorenzutti, Samuel Tchorek-Bentall
Editing of texts: Małgorzata Poździk (PL), Stefan Lorenzutti (EN)
Proofreading of Polish texts: Małgorzata Kuśnierz, Izabela Poręba
Publisher: JEDNOSTKA Gallery
First edition
165 x 207 mm
256 pages
ISBN: 978-83-949273-4-9
The “Strike” book is available for purchase on our website at BOOKS AND SHOP
More about the book -> STRIKE