Maribor Photobook Award 2025

14–30 October 2025

The Maribor Photobook Award 2025 is a biennial award and exhibition of photobooks, now in its fifth year. The award aims to showcase the latest global photobook production to the public, while also rewarding books that most effectively visualise the set theme and excel in terms of production quality. Organised by the Maribor-based publishing house The Angry Bat in DEZ – Društvo za evropsko zavest, the award and exhibition aim to address important social issues through contemporary photography.

This year, the award is again open to a variety of photographic voices, concepts, and approaches, with a particular focus on the theme of ‘protest’ and photobooks that explore different forms of social resistance and activism that are shaping our world today. Photography has always played a key role in documenting, interpreting, and highlighting these crucial historical moments, from silent resistance to collective uprisings, and from the struggle for human rights to movements for equality and justice.

The following awards will be presented at this year’s Maribor Photobook Award: the Grand Prix, the Best ”Protest” Photobook, and the prize for the Best photography book published in Southeast Europe.