Jun 26, 2026 | Source: Kraszna-Krausz Book AwardsSasha Kurmaz wins the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award for Red Horse (Éditions Images Vevey). An ongoing project launched after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Red Horse takes the form of a visual diary, composed of daily collages made from personal documentary photos, found images, notes, drawings, and things found on the street. The work conveys Sasha Kurmaz’s personal testimony about life in Ukraine and how it is constantly reshaped under the destructive power of war as he captures both his personal life and the lives of people around him who are trying to survive in conditions of constant danger.
Onyeka Igwe wins the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award for June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive (Lawrence Wishart). Using original oral history research with BAFTA award-winning curator and film programmer, June Givanni, and other key figures in Pan-African and Black British cinema, author Onyeka Igwe uncovers the important role that women festival organisers, programmers and cultural workers have played in Pan-African cinema history. Through Givanni’s private archive of thousands of films from across Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora amassed in a career spanning more than forty years, Igwe offers a way to encounter Pan-African film and preserve Givanni’s work and knowledge for future generations.
