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18/12/2025

🥇 We Feed The UK wins double award 🥇

We’re delighted to announce a double win for We Feed the UK at the Gourmand Book Awards: 🥇Best Photography Book 🥇Best Artists’ Book.

We Feed the UK is a project rooted in collaboration, and we want to acknowledge the extraordinary farmers, growers, fishers, bakers, seed-keepers, foragers, and food communities who shared their lives through these pages. Within this book are ten deeply human stories, from inter-generational farming families, to Black-led community growers in London, women cooperatives in Scotland, to sustainable fishing off the south coast of England. Each chapter pairs photography with evocative poetry, capturing a landscape of care, resistance, and renewal.

Publishing a book like this is exactly what we believe independent publishing should do: amplify vital stories, unite food, culture, photography, poetry, ecology, and social insight, and create books that both inform and inspire.

This award is not only a recognition of this special book but of the people behind it. We want to thank our partners at The Gaia Foundation who created the project, the photographers and writers who shaped the narrative, and our own team at Papadakis, who brought such skill and poured so much heart into every stage of this project. We also want to thank Gourmand International for recognising the importance of these stories and for championing the power of books to build connection, awareness, and change.

A future is possible where nature-friendly farming strengthens climate, wildlife, and communities.

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📗 Published by Papadakis, in collaboration with
📕 Foreword by .saladino
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🗂️ Production by .dewar
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🛒 Available in bookshops now! All available links to purchase can be found in our bio.

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16/12/2025

📷💥Huge congratulations to our author for being awarded “Environmental Photogapher of the Year 2025” by

Henry’s work has changed the way that people see, think, and act in the face of environmental change. This is such an important and much-deserved honour.

Proud to be your publisher, and looking forward to seeing our next projects develop together 🙌📙

14/12/2025

A wonderful video showing hilgihts from Saudi Feast Food festival and World Cookbook Fair - Gourmand International - Gourmand Awards where Papadakis was honoured with the award: "Best Publisher in the World". The ceremony also saw two of our titles – Food Planet Future and We Feed The UK – win prestigious awards in their categories.

We left Riyadh energised, enthused, and inspired by this extraordinary gathering of authors and publishers from around the world, and the important work we are all producing in these fields.

12/12/2025

In a week that has been filled with so much positive news, we are thrilled to announced that Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas, has been awarded an ICMA🥇GOLD for Best Design: Science Books.

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Founded in Germany and judged by an international panel, the ICMA - International Creative Media Award - celebrates excellence in book design worldwide. What an honour it is to have this special book recognised among such outstanding global competition!

11/12/2025

🌟 Food Planet Future – “Best of the Best - Sustainable Gastronomy” 🌟

Following on from Food Planet Future's success in Lisbon in June, winning "Best Food Security Book in the World", we are delighted to share yet another fantastic accolade, winning the title “Best of the Best - Sustainable Gastronomy” at the 31st World Cookbook Fair - Gourmand International - Gourmand Awards in Riyadh.

explores how everyday foods we rely on – from beans, and bamboo, to cacao, corn, rice and wheat – expose the pressures of climate change on our planet. Robert Dash Photography's striking microphotography together with the global case studies featured, showcases regenerative solutions such as biochar, silvopasture, forest gardens, and seed banks, offering hopeful pathways to restore soils, ecosystems, and food security. 📘🌎🚜🌱🌽

Edouard Cointreau, President of the Awards, presented the award with these words:

"Warm congratulations to Robert Dash and Alexandra Papadakis on the publication of Food Planet Future: The Art of Turning Food and Climate Perils into Possibilities. A stunning fusion of art, science, and insight, the book guides readers through the intricate connections between food systems, climate change, and biodiversity loss. With breathtaking imagery and grounded, solution-oriented perspectives, you have created an inspiring call to action, inviting us all to reimagine a more resilient, regenerative future for our planet, one thoughtful bite at a time."

We couldn’t be more excited for Robert Dash and all the extraordinary people and researchers featured within this book.

📘Food Planet Future by Robert Dash
Design by Sampieri
Available now!

11/12/2025

Catch our author Chris Beardshaw 📗100 Plants That Almost Changed the World, as he talks about his musical - and plant - passions and talks about the influence music has had on his life.

Michael Berkeley's guest is the garden and landscape designer Chris Beardshaw.

08/12/2025

🖼 New to our print shop 🖼
These striking photographic prints, taken from the acclaimed book Seeds – Time Capsules of Life, reveal the extraordinary diversity and design of seeds: each one a tiny masterpiece of form and function.

Created by artist and scientist , these images use high-magnification microscopy to uncover patterns and textures invisible to the naked eye. The result is a mesmerising fusion of art and science – where the everyday becomes extraordinary.

The book and its seeds are a record of the pioneering seed conservation work at and the Millennium Seed Bank – and these prints are designed to inspire curiosity and connection with the natural world.

Printed on premium giclée fine art paper, each print is produced with rich, lasting colour and exceptional detail. Available in three sizes, they make perfect statement pieces for interiors – from living rooms and studios to schools, offices, or science and nature spaces.

These – and many more prints – are available now from shop.papadakis.net – just head to the link in our bio to purchase your own!

08/12/2025

The Papadakis Christmas Gift Guide is out now! Our newsletter (below) includes a special offer to say thank you to all of you who have supported us in the past.

Please let us know if you would like to be added to future mailing lists for launch invitations, special offers and news from behind the scenes of our publishing house.

With Christmas just around the corner, we’re delighted to bring you our Papadakis 2025 highlights for all your gift-giving inspiration. Whether it’s icy wonderlands, exquisite art prints, stocking fillers, and everything in between, bring the gift of Papadakis to someone you love this holiday. W...

03/12/2025

✨ Best Publisher in the World – World Cookbook Fair - Gourmand International - Gourmand Awards ✨
�I’m thrilled to share that Papadakis was named Best Publisher in the World during the in Riyadh,

Edouard Cointreau spoke the following words:

“Our deep admiration and gratitude go to Papadakis, the art publisher that continually surprises the world giving each book a universe of its own. Spanning subjects from the infinitely small to the immensely vast, your catalogue deepens our understanding of the universe and heightens our sense of wonder. The food-culture community is fortunate to experience the beauty you reveal, the instinct that guides your choices, and the books whose message resonates universally.”

To be recognised on this global stage – among publishers from 96 countries and so many remarkable books, creators, and cultures – was so deeply moving.

This publishing house was founded in 1967 by my father Andreas Papadakis, whose publications defined an era in architectural publishing. He was naturally intuitive, and became a leading creator of books on architecture, and design, championing causes and movements that were way ahead of their time. I continue that spirit today, connecting the worlds of art and science, nature, food, photography and design.

I am grateful to everyone who has walked this path with me: authors, artists, scientists, photographers, designers, chefs, growers, partners, my team, and my family - I accept this award on behalf of all of us.
�Huge thanks to Gourmand, for championing global food and culture and the world of book publishing, and for creating a space where books, culture, and food stories from every corner of the world can be celebrated.

Here’s to the beauty of books, and to our next chapter 📚✨💫

26/11/2025

✨Riyadh bound!

Alexandra Papadakis is heading to Riyadh to attend the Gourmand International Awards, where We Feed the UK has been nominated in three categories, and Seeds – Time Capsules of Life has also received recognition following its award in Lisbon. The event takes place within the Saudi Feast Food Festival, bringing together food culture, storytelling, and culinary heritage from around the world, but especially from the many regions of Saudi Arabia itself.

More soon from Riyadh 🌍📚✨

25/11/2025

The ultimate coffee-table gift for Christmas: a breathtaking journey across our frozen planet ❄