Sarah Meister, photography curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York), converses with artists Gloria Oyarzabal, Soumya Sankar Bose, Edgar Martins and June Canedo, whose books are nominated for the Paris Photo & Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards 2020. These four photobooks are as different as the artists who made them. Each grapples with urgent contemporary issues—from the suppression of inconvenient truths to the blind spots of Western feminism, from migration and citizenship to incarceration and representation—wrestling them into photobooks that honor the complexity and gravity of their subjects without neglecting the distinctive tactile and visual pleasures of the form.
