Los Angeles, CA—The 20th Annual Lucie Awards revealed the nominees for the 2023 Lucie Support Category Awards. The organization will announce the winners live on October 30, at Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall, located in New York City.
Furthermore, the Support Category Awards are presented to individuals, companies and organizations that are an integral part of the photography industry. Annually, the public is invited to nominate those from the photographic creative community for consideration. It is from those nominations that the Lucie Photographer Advisory Board votes on the entries. All nominees have proven essential to crafting and celebrating exceptional photographic images. Moreover, tickets for the event are on sale at www.lucies.org.
2023 Lucie Support Category Nominees
The 2023 nominees for the Support Categories follow. 
Book Publisher of the Year (awarded to the publisher)
Fraenkel Publications, Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen, Lee Friedlander
MACK, Swimmers, Larry Sultan
Atelier EXB, For the Long Haul, Marc Riboud
FotoEvidence, Ukraine: A War Crime, 93 photographers from 29 countries
AKAAKA, Always Dream, Yoshihiko Ueda
Photo Editor of the Year (awarded to photo editor)
Sarah Leen, FotoEvidence, Ukraine: A War Crime
Cengiz Yar, The race to put Indigenous land on the map, Rest of World
Craig Atkinson, Café Royal
Michael Kirchoff, Analog Forever Magazine
Melissa DeWitt, Hotshoe Magazine
Photography Content of the Year, Print or Online nominees (awarded to publisher):
The Photo Closer, Witnessing War, Ukraine/Russia
Musée Magazine
Balam
Photo Museum Exhibition of the Year (awarded to museum)
LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Kristen Gresh
Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue, The J Paul Getty Museum, Ron Platt
James Nachtwey: Memoria, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History, Jeu de Paume, Douglas Fogle
Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron, MOPA@SDMA, Lisa Springer and Marta Weiss
Photo Gallery Exhibition of the Year (awarded to gallery)
Gagosian, Avedon 100
Howard Greenberg Gallery, Bruce Davidson: The Way Back
Robert Koch Gallery, Matt Black: The Central Valley and Mexico
Almanaque fotografica, Gender: Blurred
Photo Curator of the Year (awarded to curator)
Sally Berman and Sacha Jenkins, Hip Hop Conscious Unconscious, Fotografiska NYC
Jim Ganz and Antares Wells, Eugene Atget Highlights from the Mary & Dan Solomon Collection, J Paul Getty Museum
Rosie Broadley, Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64 Eyes of the Storm, National Portrait Gallery London
Photo Festival of the Year (awarded to director and/or founder)
Paris Photo, Paris, France
The Planches Contact Festival, Deauville, France
Cortona on the Move, Cortona, Italy
Photo Program of the Year (awarded to organization or university)
Penumbra Foundation
Free Juice
Dienacht Lab
Gowanus Darkroom
IPA Awards 
In addition, the Lucie Foundation and the global photography community will also recognize this year’s extraordinary honorees and the talented winners from the 2023 International Photography Awards (IPA) juried competition. It is the Lucie Foundation’s sister effort.
In addition to these awards, the IPA prizes and the Support Category awards, there will be an In Memoriam tribute to those in the industry who have recently passed on.
2023 Lucie Award Honorees
At an earlier date, the Lucie Foundation announced the list of the 2023 Lucie Award Honorees. They follow here.
- Raymond Depardon: Lifetime Achievement
- Jo Ann Callis: Achievement in Fine Art
- Carol Guzy: Achievement in Photojournalism
- Ming Smith: Achievement in Portraiture
- Firooz Zahedi: Achievement in Entertainment
- Jamel Shabazz: Achievement in Documentary
- Donald Miralle: Achievement in Sports
- Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier: Humanitarian Award
- Antwaun Sargent: Spotlight/Visionary Award
Tickets for the Lucie Awards are on sale here.
Furthermore, this year the Lucie Awards are sponsored by Nikon Inc., One Plus, Splashlight, and the International Photography Awards.
