Awards
Ken Schles is a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellow.
His work has been cited in or awarded by:
- Nominated for the 2016 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
- The Photobook: A History Volume III
- Les Rencontres d'Arles Photographie Contemporary Book Award Finalist
- 802 Photobooks from the M.+M. Auer Collection (Auer #676)
- New York Times Notable Book of the Year
- TIME Magazine photobook of the year (2x)
- NRC Handelsblad best exhibitions of the year (The Netherlands)
- Mother Jones photobook of the year (2x)
- Vogue Italia photobook of the year (2x)
- The Daily Beast photobook of the year
- 10x10 American Photobooks (cited 3x)
- AIGA (book design)
- American Photography (cited x3)
- 5b4 "Best of Year" Photobook
- ADC Silver Award
- Addy's Best of Show
- Black Book AR 100
- Communication Arts
- IPA Photographer of the Year for Culture ("The Lucies")
- Critique Magazine's The Big Crit
- The Digital Photobook: Top Digital Photobooks
- PDN (x2)
- The Photobook Club (UK) "B*@t" (cited 2x)
- PhotoBookStore Blog (UK) favorite photobook of the year
- Photo-Eye "Best of Year" Photobook (cited 3x)
- Print Run "Best of Year" Photobook
- Schaden.com "Best of Year" Photobook
- Show South
- Society of Magazine Designers
- Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Gold Award (cited x2), Silver (cited x2) and Merit Awards
- University & College Designers Association (UCDA) Award of Excellence