Kraszna-Krausz 2026 Longlist: Race, Climate, Memory
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- Kraszna-Krausz book awards annual longlist for 2026 spotlights deeply personal approaches to race, representation, identity, sexuality, notions of 'the other,' and the preservation and transformation of the past.
- Janet Delaney's "Too Many Products Too Much Pressure" follows her father in his last week as a beauty product salesman, featuring transcripts of conversations between her father and his customers alongside text by Delaney and her mother.
- Renée Mussai's "Black Chronicles" presents Victorian-era Black portraiture challenging the preconception that Black presence in Britain only began with the Windrush era, according to judge Jermaine Francis.
- David Alekhuogie's "A Reprise" remixes Walker Evans' 1935 MoMA-commissioned African art documentation with vibrant African textiles, offering what judge Fiona Rogers called a 'reparative gesture' on artistic authorship.
- Raymond Thompson Jr's "It's Hard to Stop Rebels That Time Travel" tells the story of the Maroons who escaped slavery in the US and built communities in swamps, blending photographs with historical documents as time-traveling 'portals.'
- Bryan Anselm's "Sound the Sirens" features tightly cropped frames of Hurricane Michael's 2018 storm surge destruction in Mexico Beach, Florida — judge Diane Smyth called it 'a compelling insight into the reality of climate change.'
- The longlisted books will be displayed at the Kraszna-Krausz Photobook Weekender at POST, Brighton on 4 and 5 July, with judges Fiona Rogers, Diane Smyth, and Jermaine Francis curating.
Why it matters: The 2026 Kraszna-Krausz longlist, juried by Rogers, Smyth, and Francis, spans Victorian Black portraiture, Hurricane Michael's aftermath, Nazi-era medical photography, and intimate family documentary — all seven entries go on public display at Brighton's POST venue on 4-5 July, giving photographers, collectors, and readers direct access to a judge-vetted cross-section of the year's most ambitious photobooks.
