The jury met on 1st/2nd/3rd March in Heidelberg, Germany. The Jury consisted of five publishers, namely Benoît Rivero (Actes Sud), Leopoldo Blume (Blume), Dewi Lewis and Caroline Warhurst (Dewi Lewis Publishing), Mario Peliti (Peliti Associati), and Klaus Kehrer (Kehrer Verlag).
The guest juror was Celina Lunsford, the Artistic Director of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, an exhibition and educational centre founded in 1984.
The following photographers were shortlisted:
Andrea Ferrari
The Pictures Included in this Envelope
Paul Gaffney
We make the path by walking
Carlos Spottorno
The Pigs
Ambroise Tézenas
I was here
Paolo Verzone
Cadets, a portrait of the European academies
Fabian Weiß
Wolfskinder