Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards annually celebrate the extraordinary creativity of the photography book industry and strive to be a key player in promoting it.
We are thrilled to share the news that Katerina Angelopoulou's book The Fumes of Mars has been shortlisted in the 2026 'Author' category.
One of the deadliest wildfires ever recorded took place on 23 July 2018 just 30km from the historical centre of Athens in Greece. Artist Katerina Angelopoulou survived the fire and The Fumes of Mars combines her photographs with personal testimonies from other survivors, timelines, maps and reports. With these materials Angelopoulou attempts to weave together a collective narrative of the events to better understand the violent disconnect between her own experience and the ‘official’ account of the disaster in which facts were concealed and victims held culpable.
Find out more about the prize here