Selection

a) Original photographs and/or high-resolution reproductions (350 dpi at 150% of their original size).
b) A letter ceding the rights of the images to be published exclusively by Editorial RM in the RM Photobook 2010.
c) A copy of an official identification.
d) A curriculum vitae (150 words maximum).

Jury

A preliminary committee will preselect a maximum of 15 titles. The principal jury that will choose the winning entry will be made up of:

Horacio Fernández (Spain)
Art historian specializing in photography, exhibition curator, and professor at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Author of books such as Mexicana. Fotografía moderna en México, 1923–1940 and Fotografía pública/Photography in Print: 1919–1939.

Graciela Iturbide (Mexico)
One of Latin America’s greatest photographers. Recipient of countless photography prizes, including the Hasselblad Award (2008). Her work has been exhibited in many countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Martin Parr (United Kingdom)
A member of Magnum Photos since 1994. Appointed professor of photography at the University of Wales in 2004. Recipient of the Dr. Erich Salomon prize in 2008 and the PhotoEspaña Baume et Mercier Award in 2008. Co-author, with Gerry Badger, of The Photobook: A History (Phaidon Press).

Lesley Martin (USA)
Publisher of the book-publishing program at the Aperture Foundation, where she has worked on and off since 1995. Editor of over fifty books of photography, including the recently released Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s.

Álvaro Sotillo (Venezuela)
One of the great exponents of design in Venezuela. Founding member, visiting professor, and consultant of the Escuela de Comunicación Visual Prediseño. Founder in 2000 of the Laboratorio de Tipografía de Caracas, where he carries out his formal research and develops typography projects. Recipient of two doctorates honoris causa from the Universidad Católica Cecilio Acosta (2007) and the Universidad de Zulia (2008). A member since 1997 of the Alianza Gráfica Internacional (AGI). Currently works in his own workshop Visión Alternativa (VACA) and in the Laboratorio de Tipografía de Caracas.

Diran Sirinian (Argentina)
A long-time collector of vintage photographs and photography books, in 2003 he opened the antiquarian bookshop “Poema 20” in the center of Buenos Aires. The shop has served as base for expanding his collections and for research into various aspects of the history of police and railway photography in Argentina.

Ramón Reverté (Spain)
Director of Editorial RM since the publishing operation was established in Mexico in 1999. In 2004, in collaboration with his brother Javier, created RM Verlag in Barcelona. More than 150 books have now been published under the RM imprint, with distribution all over the Spanish- and English-speaking worlds. The RM list of photobooks is the most extensive currently available in Spanish in Latin America.

Alexis Fabri (France)
Publisher and founding partner in Paris of Coromandel Express and later Toluca Éditions, which have published artist books by photographers such as Miguel Rio Branco, Daido Moriyama, Thomas Ruff, and Graciela Iturbide. A collector of photobooks with wide knowledge of the Latin-American scene, Fabri is curator of Anna Gamazo de Abelló Latin-American photography collection.

Juan Pablo Queiroz (Brazil)
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he currently divides his time between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Collector of photography books. In 1992, with Tomas de Elia, he established Ediciones Brambila, a small operation dedicated to the production and publication of art books. Under a joint imprint with Rizzoli International Publications of New York, they have published Argentina: The Great Estancias, Evita. An Intimate Portrait of Eva Perón, and Private Rio: The Great Houses and Gardens.

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