Shutter Hub Founder and Creative Director Karen Harvey MBE is honoured to have been invited to join the jury for the Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award 2025.

Karen will join Xosé Lois Vázquez and Tiago Casanova to complete the jury which will evaluate hundreds of submissions and select one winning project for each award: Best Published Book Award and Best Dummy Award. Both will be awarded with a cash prize of €1,000.00.

Aware of the fundamental role the photobook has played in recent years in the presentation of photographic narratives, the development of creative processes, construction and experimentation with materials and techniques, Encontros da Imagem has sought to promote, since 2014, independent authors and projects through a competition aimed at highlighting and rewarding the best photobooks of the  year.

All the books sent and submitted will be presented at a collective exhibition, which will take place between 18 September – 02 November 2025 in Braga, Portugal, as part of the 35th edition of the festival, as well as being presented and announced on the festival’s website and its various communication channels.

Karen will be attending the festival 19-21 September and welcomes conversations and connections with photographers, so if you’ll be there and would like to meet, let us know!

Find out more about Encontros da Imagem here.

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