The award is given to the best photo book project

The Leica European Publishers' Award for Photography is a photography award, handed out once each year by the photo book publishing firms Actes Sud (France), Apeiron Photos (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK), Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag (Germany), Lunwerg Editores (Spain), Peliti Associati (Italy), Mets & Schilt (The Netherlands) and Leica.. To be eligible for submission, photographers must submit completed and unpublished photo projects in book form. The project of the winning participant is published by the participating publishing firms in the relevant country and in the relevant language in a total of 5,000 copies. The participation form is available for downloading here.