2020 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award

Gladstone Gallery

LaToya Ruby Frazier has won the 2020 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award for her eponymous book published by Mousse Publishing and Mudam Luxembourg, which coincided with a solo exhibition at Mudam in 2019. The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards have been the UK’s leading prizes for books on photography and the moving image since 1985.

On this award, Frazier notes, “I proudly accept and gift The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Prize to author, writer, photographer, and teacher, Sandra Gould Ford, who I collaborated with to create On The Making Of Steel Genesis, which reveals her story as a steel mill worker for Jones and Laughlin Steel Company in our hometown Pittsburgh, PA. My hope is that this prize will bring Sandra the recognition and visibility she truly deserves for all her great contributions to photography, creative writing, American culture, and U.S. History. To me, Sandra Gould Ford is a national treasure and the world should know about her grace and excellence.

I would like to accept this award on behalf of coal miners, Silvio Cocco and Émile Godart, who I collaborated with to create their portraits and texts for And From The Coal Tips A Tree Will Rise. Émile passed away during the exhibition at the MUDAM in May 2019, and Silvio passed away in April 2020 after this video was taken from complications from COVID. I hope to keep their memory alive through this book and incredible honor from The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation.”

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