From Victorian portraits through Nazi archives to NYC in the 70s: these photo works just earned major recognition Historical photography, archival images, and personal storytelling dominate the longlist for UK's leading prize for photography and moving image publishing Historical narratives, documentary photography, and deeply personal visual storytelling define the longlist for the UK's leading prize celebrating excellence in photography and moving image publishing. The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards published the 2026 longlist, and this year's Photography Book Award selections explore subjects including Victorian portraiture, colonial legacies, race, war, and climate disaster. The books revisit everything from the 19th-century Black portrait photography to slavery in North Carolina, Nazi medical research imagery and contemporary Spanning collage, documentary work and reinterpreted archives, the selected titles show how contemporary photographers continue to use the medium to examine memory, identity and historical record. The Longlisted Titles for the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain, edited by Renée Mussai (Thames & Hudson/ Autograph) This collection of 19th-century portraits reexamines the representation of black identities in Victorian Britain. The book reshapes historical understandings of race and portrait photography. A Reprise by David Alekhuogie (Aperture) David Alekhuogie revisits Walker Evans' 1935 photographs of African sculptures through layered collages and rephotographed image sculptures. The work explores African art, archival photography and the legacy of museum representation. Index2025 by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (Roma Publications) Blending images, citations and fragmented visual language, INDEZ 2025 reflects on identity, memory, and contemporary culture. The experimental work challenges traditional photographic narratives. It's Hard To Stop Rebels That Time Travel by Raymond Thompson Jr (Void) Using archival fragments and photography, Raymond Thompson Jr focuses on previously concealed stories of slavery, maroons and resistance in North Caroline. The project explores memory, race and historical erasure. MAN by Erik Kessels and