The Deutscher Fotobuchpreis or German Photobook Prize is an annual group of awards made by a selected jury, with the purpose of celebrating and honoring exemplary projects in the field of visual-led book publishing originated in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. Award categories include author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

, publisher, and graphic design

Graphic design

Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

er.

The 2010 jury was: Carolin Ellwanger (Fotofestival MA_LU_HD); Werner Götze (Lindemanns Fotobuchhandlung, Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

); Hans-Michael Koetzle (Kurator, München); Andreas Langen (Fotograf, Stuttgart); Ulrich Lobstädt (Imageservice Werbeagentur, Stuttgart); Ursula Moll (Galerie Lumas, Stuttgart); Norbert Waning (BFF Bund Freischaffender Foto-Designer, Stuttgart); Kerstin Weidemeyer (Agentur Foessel Weidemeyer, München).

External links

• Official Deutscher Fotobuchpreis site