The Angry Bat

27/09/2025

📚 MARIBOR PHOTOBOOK AWARD 2025 – LAST CALL! ⏳

Only 3 days left to apply!

If you haven’t submitted your photobook yet – now’s the time.
📦 All books must arrive by October 13 to be considered!

On October 14, the international jury will meet in Maribor to review all entries and select this year’s winners. Don’t miss your chance to be part of it.

🖼️ Selected books will be exhibited at UGM – Maribor Art Gallery
🏆 Main Prize: €3,000
🔥 Special focus: "Protest"

📬 Send your book to:
Matej Sitar, Marčičeva 9, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia (EU)

✍️ Apply online now – one form per book:
https://app.youform.com/forms/iw3ommxg

📣 Spread the word & join us!

17/09/2025

📚✨ Open Call: Maribor Photobook Award 2025 ✨📚

Only 13 days left to apply for the 5th edition of the Maribor Photobook award

🏆 Open to all published or self-published photobooks (including zines) created after 1 January 2023.
📍 Selected books will be exhibited at UGM – Art Gallery Maribor.

💶 Prizes:
• Main Prize: €3,000
• Best “Protest” Photobook: €500
• Best Photobook from SE Europe: €500

🗓️ Deadline: 30 September 2025 (postmarked)
📦 One form per book + one physical copy to:
Photobook Award Maribor, Matej Sitar, Marčičeva 9, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia, EU

The physical copies have to arrive until the 13th of October!

Apply now: https://app.youform.com/forms/iw3ommxg

More info here: https://theangrybat.com/https-theangrybat-com-portfolio/photobook_award-2025/

We would kindly like to invite you to the fifth edition of the Maribor photobook award organized by The Angry Bat and Društvo za evropsko zavest. The award will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected photobooks from the call. The books will be on display in UGM – The Art Gallery Maribor.

09/09/2025

📚✨ Open Call: Maribor Photobook Award 2025 ✨📚

Only 20 days left to apply for the 5th edition of the Maribor Photobook Award, organized by The Angry Bat & Društvo za evropsko zavest!

🏆 Open to all published or self-published photobooks (including zines) created after 1 January 2023.
📍 Selected books will be exhibited at UGM – Art Gallery Maribor.

📌 This year’s special focus: Protest – books engaging with social resistance, activism, and movements for justice will receive additional attention from the jury.

🎯 Evaluation criteria:
• Photography
• Concept
• Production quality
• Relevance of topic

💶 Prizes:
• Main Prize: €3,000
• Best “Protest” Photobook: €500
• Best Photobook from SE Europe: €500

🗓️ Deadline: 30 September 2025 (postmarked)
📦 One form per book + one physical copy to:
Photobook Award Maribor, Matej Sitar, Marčičeva 9, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia, EU

Apply now & share your voice: https://app.youform.com/forms/iw3ommxg

More info here: https://theangrybat.com/https-theangrybat-com-portfolio/photobook_award-2025/

05/09/2025

Aneta Kowalczyk and Grzegorz Kosmala, based in Warsaw, Poland, and Vienna, Austria, are the founders and driving forces behind BLOW UP PRESS, an independent publishing house specialising in photobooks and lens-based art books. Guided by the motto “When the story matters,” they create thought-provoking publications that have garnered international acclaim.

Apply here: https://theangrybat.com/https.../photobook_award-2025/

03/09/2025

Birgit Sattlecker is a Salzburg-based curator and publisher, and a long-time board member of the FOTOHOF collective. Since 1999, she has focused on photobooks, coordinating FOTOHOF’s presence at international book fairs and festivals. She also runs the FOTOHOF library, curates exhibitions, organises talks and regularly hosts book-related events.

Apply here: https://theangrybat.com/https-theangrybat-com-portfolio/photobook_award-2025/

02/09/2025

Tanja Lažetić is an artist based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, working across photography, video, performance, and ceramics. Her hybrid works often explore representations of women in society. She has exhibited widely across Europe and has received several awards, including the Jakopič Recognition. Over the past decade, she has published more than twenty artist books, now held in the collections of MoMA and Tate.

Apply here: https://theangrybat.com/https-theangrybat-com-portfolio/photobook_award-2025/

24/07/2025

Maribor photobook award 2025 - https://mailchi.mp/65b5d2db9c01/maribor-photobook-award-2025

16/06/2025

📚 The Maribor Photobook Award is back for 2025!
Already in its 5th edition, the jury is ready to discover the most compelling photobooks of the past two years. Participation is free, and the award is open to published and self-published books from around the world.

🏆 Prizes:
• Main Prize: €3,000
• Best “Protest” Photobook: €500
• Best Photobook from Southeast Europe: €500

This year’s special focus: “Protest” – we’re especially interested in books that explore resistance, activism, and social change.

All selected books will be part of an exhibition at UGM l Umetnostna galerija Maribor

Organized by The Angry Bat & Društvo za evropsko zavest.

📬 Deadline and application details here: https://theangrybat.com/https-theangrybat-com-portfolio/photobook_award-2025/

17/05/2025

Martin Parr is checking out The Abyss by Matej Sitar and Goran Bertok's fantastic Requiem. Only 3 copies of Requiem are still available, then the book will be sold out!!!

Come to the tomorrow, we will be at booth P11 until the fair closes at 18.00, or order over our site: www.theangrybat.com

Hope to see you tomorrow in the Somerset house in London!

14/05/2025

Today's the VIP preview day but from tomorrow the London Photo fair is open to everyone and I hope to see you here!

10/04/2025

Hello photobook lovers. On Saturday starts the Goodbye Meadow presentation tour in Vienna. Join me and the photographer Filippo Zambon at Softcover at 19.00 where we will talk about the book.

Hope to see you there!

On the evening, the artist Filippo Zambon will present his new photo book Goodbye Meadow in a dialog with the publisher Matej Sitar ( The Angry Bat).

07/03/2025

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Goodbye Meadow is a deeply personal journey through memory, loss, and rediscovery. Filippo Zambon returns to Prato, a city he once left behind, to confront its past and his own. Through intimate photographs and poignant text, he navigates the streets of his childhood, the spaces his mother inhabited...