The Fotobookfestival Kassel invites photographers to present their so-far unpublished photobooks to an international public and to eminent experts. ‘Unpublished’ means that all books published digitally or by self-publishing or through a photobook-publishing platform like blurb can be submitted.
In 2014 the best 50 books selected by a pre-jury will be exhibited at international photo events in Athens, Cologne, Dublin, Madrid, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Paraty and Sao Paulo. From these 50 titles, 3 winners will be chosen by an international jury of experts at the PhotoBookMuseum Cologne in September. The winner of the First Prize will be given the opportunity to realize their dummy as a »real« book in cooperation with our production partner, k-books, Germany, and will be reported on in the magazine European Photography. The First Prize also includes, apart from the book production, the presentation of the photobook-work during the next Fotobookfestival in Kassel in 2015. The Second Prize is a book production voucher valued at € 500; the Third Prize is a voucher valued at € 300 given by our partner, k-books.
Who can enter?
Any photographer from around the world who accepts the terms and conditions can participate by registering for the competition and submitting an unpublished* work as a book. The participant states that the submitted work has never been published by a publishing house.
Guidelines
We require physical printed books of all the entries sent to us by the photographers/authors. Registration closes on 15 May 2014. Entries can only be registered online. We charge € 32.00 per entry and book. There is no limitation to the number of entries per person. If you would like your book to be returned to you, then we will require a further postage and handling charge per entry: within Germany € 8.00; within Europe € 13.00; all other countries € 20.00. Payments can only be made online via our Paypal account during the registration process. Dummies that make the shortlist will be shown during photo events in Athens, Dublin, Cologne, Madrid, Oslo, Paris, Rom and Sao Paulo. Because some of these events take place at the same time, we request that you send a second copy of the dummy. Should this not be available, then it will miss out on some of the overlapping exhibitions.
Exhibitions
The Dummy Award Shortlist will travel around the world to the following locations:
Athens Photo Festival Athens
The Photobookmuseum Cologne
Photoireland Dublin
Ied Madrid
Fotogalleriet Oslo
Le Bal Paris
Fotoleggendo Rome
Paraty In Focus Paraty
Sao Paulo
