PHotoEspaña 2011 Announces the Winners of the Best Photography Book of the Year Award

MADRID.- PHotoEspaña awards nine prizes every edition which recognise the Festival’s best exhibitions, the year’s most outstanding publications and the professional path of Spanish and international photographers, both well-known and emerging. With these awards the festival recognizes the important function that the publishing industry takes as a way for the diffusion of photography. The jury formed by Pep Carrió, graphic designer; Frits Gierstberg, director of exhibitions in Netherlands Museum of Rotterdam; and Kasahara Michiko, curator of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography have recognized as the Best Photography Books of the Year in the international category: Destroy this Memory by Richard Misrach, published by Aperture Foundation. Richard Misrach’s Destroy This Memory is an affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina. Rather than simply surveying the damage,

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