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Dummy Award 25

Einsendeschluss: 18.02.2025

[English only]

Since 2010, the Kassel Fotobook Festival has been inviting photographers to take part in its Kassel Dummy Award.

The participating photographers have been able to establish contacts with galleries, publishers and festivals and presented their books to an international audience. Hundreds of books from the shortlist have been exhibited at countless international photography events, festivals and exhibition spaces.
Over this period of time thousands of photobook prototypes have been submitted from all over the world.

The rules are easy:
Each year, we invite all photographers worldwide to take part. From all entries, around 50 books are selected for a shortlist to be exhibited at international photography events.

Together with the votes of the shortlist jury, each exhibiting venue has a vote, either determined by public vote or by curator’s choice. With these votes, 5 winning books will be selected from the shortlist.

The book that wins the PBM/MAS Prize will be produced and published by the leading Turkish photobook printing and binding house MAS Matbaa, in cooperation with the PhotoBookMuseum. The costs will be fully covered.

The other four winning books will receive a production grant for printing their books at MAS Matbaa.

Learn more or register here.