The awards are organised by the Kraszna-Kraus Foundation, which was established in 1985 by Hungarian publisher and founder of Focal Press Andor Kraszna-Kraus to provide year-round grants for the advancement of photography and moving image in the UK.

The Kraszna-Kraus Book Awards celebrate excellence in the lens-based media field. This year, the judging panel for the Best Photography Book prize will include Lindsey Stewart, a historical photography expert and gallerist at Bernard Quatrich, as well as photographers Gerry Badger and Jem Southam.

Last year, David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavic won the photography prize for their TJ/Double Negative book. This year the judges will be looking for works which make a significant contribution to photographic and/or moving image scholarship, history, research, criticism, science and conservation.

Shortlists will be announced in March with the two winners revealed at the Sony World Photography Awards ceremony on 26 April 2012. The initial deadline for entries is Wednesday 30 November 2011, but any book published later may be submitted up until Friday 30 December 2011.

For more information, visit www.kraszna-krausz.org.uk.