Tasheva photographed commemorative sites and concentration camps across Europe © Hristina Tasheva
Since 1985 the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards have recognised individuals that make an outstanding original or lasting educational, professional, historical and cultural contribution to literature concerning photography or the moving image. Two winning titles are selected – one in photography; the other, in moving image (including film, television and digital media).
The 2024 long-list of ten photography books focuses on the personal and the political with themes including the Holocaust and contemporary space exploration; parental radical politics; the history of Black life and culture and African fashion. They are not books to be nonchalantly flicked through by the holiday swimming pool sipping a Piña colada.
Two worlds overlapping
The overall winner was Far Away From Home: The Voices, the Body and the Periphery by Hristina Tasheva (Self Published). Tasheva equally shares the £10,000 prize fund with Jie Li, winner of the moving image award for Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China (Columbia University Press).
Born in Bulgaria in 1976, Tasheva was raised with the belief in communist ideals. For the past 20 years she has lived in