The 2025 Photobook Award 2025 is granted to Juliana Irene Smith’s book Good Feelings Every Day

The Association of Photographic Artists and the Finnish Museum of Photography have granted the Finnish Photobook Award 2025 to Juliana Irene Smith's book Good Feelings Every Day. The winner was be chosen by by Emma Bowkett, photography director at FT Weekend Magazine, as well as a photography curator and assistant lecturer at the London College of Communication (LCC).

You can read Emma Bowkett’s rationale for selecting the winner here.

The winner receives a prize worth 2,000 €, and the other finalists 500 €. 

Warm congratulations to the winner!

The other finalists of the Photobook Award 2025 are: Ulla-Maija Alanen: Horizons of Water and Natalia Kopkina: Liiketutkielma (Veen emo).

The aim of the Photobook Award is to encourage the creation of high-quality photobooks and to raise public interest in the photobook as an art form. The award is granted to a Finnish photographer or a photographer residing in Finland for a photobook published in 2025. The award highlights the photobook as a distinct mode of photographic art and as an independent work of art. As of this year, small-press and self-published books are also eligible, provided that the print run is at least 50 copies.