{"id":4441,"date":"2025-08-12T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shelfiecafe.it\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=4441"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:28:24","slug":"the-angry-bat-book-award-2025","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.shelfiecafe.it\/?mec-events=the-angry-bat-book-award-2025","title":{"rendered":"The Angry Bat Book Award 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uncode_text_column\">\n<div class=\"uncode_text_column text-lead\">\n<p>We would kindly like to invite you to the fifth edition of the Maribor photobook award organized by The Angry Bat and Dru\u0161tvo za evropsko zavest. The award will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected photobooks from the call. The books will be on display in UGM \u2013 The Art Gallery Maribor.<\/p>\n<p>Open Call: Maribor Photobook Award 2025<\/p>\n<p>The Maribor Photobook Award returns in 2025 to celebrate excellence and innovation in contemporary photobook publishing. We invite publishers, photographers, artists, designers from around the world to submit their\u00a0published or self-published books, created in the past two years.\u00a0Eligible are books published after the 1st of January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>This award is\u00a0not intended for dummies or unpublished projects\u00a0\u2013 only completed and published photobooks are eligible.\u00a0Zines are welcome\u00a0and encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition welcomes submissions\u00a0on any theme\u00a0\u2013 the award remains open to diverse photographic voices, concepts, and approaches.<\/p>\n<p>However, we are also placing a special focus on the\u00a0subtheme:\u00a0\u201cProtest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We are particularly interested in books that engage with the many forms of social resistance and activism that shape our world today. From silent acts of defiance to collective uprisings, from struggles for human rights to movements for equality and justice \u2013 photography has played a crucial role in documenting, interpreting, and amplifying these moments.<\/p>\n<p>Books that meaningfully address this subtheme will receive additional consideration during the jury process.<\/p>\n<p>All participating books will be evaluated based on the\u00a0following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photography<\/li>\n<li>Coherence of the concept<\/li>\n<li>Production quality<\/li>\n<li>Topic relevance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Prizes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Main Prize<\/strong>: \u20ac3,000<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best \u201cProtest\u201d Photobook<\/strong>: \u20ac500 (also considered for the main prize)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Photobook from Southeast Europe<\/strong>: \u20ac500 (supporting and strengthening photobook production in a region where resources for publishing are often limited. Eligible countries for the SE Europe award: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Deadline: 30th September 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theangrybat.com\/https-theangrybat-com-portfolio\/photobook_award-2025\/\">https:\/\/theangrybat.com\/https-theangrybat-com-portfolio\/photobook_award-2025\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would kindly like to invite you to the fifth edition of the Maribor photobook award organized by The Angry Bat and Dru\u0161tvo za evropsko zavest. The award will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected photobooks from the call. The books will be on display in UGM \u2013 The Art Gallery Maribor. 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