KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2018
September 5th, 4 p.m. at the VAA Nida Art Colony (E.A.Jonušo str. 3) there will be opening of Kassel Dummy Award 2018 book exhibition. Its organizer and curator Dieter Neubert will be present at the opening.
The KASSEL DUMMY AWARD features the best drafts of photobook mock-ups by outstanding emerging talents yearly since 2010.
This year a total of 391 photobooks from 46 countries from all over the world, from Bangladesh to Norway, from Russia to Australia, from Japan to America, from China to Brazil were sent in to the 2018 KASSEL DUMMY AWARD.
The shortlist selection resulted in 53 photobooks as chosen by Valentina Abenavoli (Akina Books, Istanbul), Anne-Katrin Bicher (Montag Stiftung, Bonn), Sonia Berger (Dalpine Publishers, Madrid), Frederic Lezmi (Photographer, The PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne), Dieter Neubert (Fotobookfestival Kassel), Markus Schaden (The PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne), Andrea Schmidt (Verlag Kettler, Dortmund), Salvatore Vitale (Editor in Chief of YET Magazine, Lausanne).
These 53 photobook dummies selected in 2018 will be on display at PhotoIreland Festival in Dublin, Fotobookfestival in Kassel, Triennial of Photography in Hamburg, Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid, FotoLeggendo Festival in Rome, Organ Vida - International Photography Festival in Zagreb, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Cologne during the Internationale Photoszene Koln, International Photography Symposium in Nida, Aarhus Photobook Week, Zentralbibliothek im Kulturpalast in Dresden, FORMAT Festival Derby, The Tokyo Art Book Fair.
Three winning books have been selected by the main jury (Valentina Abenavoli - Istanbul, Morten Andersen - Oslo, Pierre Bessard - Paris, Matthias Koddenberg - Dortmund, Dana Lixenberg - Amsterdam/ New York, Susan Meiselas - New York, Corinne Noordenbos - Amsterdam, Salvatore Vitale - Lausanne ) at the KASSEL FOTOBOOKFESTIVAL. The winner of the First Prize will be produced and published by Verlag Kettler, Germany.
The winners are:
FIRST PRIZE
Michael Danner (DE)
»Migration as Avantgarde«
SECOND PRIZE
Karim El Maktafi (IT/MA)
»Hayati« «
THIRD PRIZE
Filippo Romano (IT)
»Water Tanks in Mathare Slum«
More about books of the award: https://fotobookfestival.org/portfolio-item/kassel-dummy-award-2018/
THE SHORTLIST 2018
53 BOOKS
Bahadir Aksan (TR) ≫Daffodil≪
Taufiqur Rahman Anik (BD) ≫Modern Photography≪
Julia Borissova (RU) ≫DOM (Document Object Model)≪
Alessandra Carosi (IT) ≫Ruota≪
Piergiorgio Casotti, Emanuele Brutti (IT) ≫INDEX G≪
Federico Clavarino (IT) ≫Hereafter≪
Celine Croze (FR) ≫Nothing Happened≪
Michael Danner (DE) ≫MIGRATION AS AVANT-GARDE≪
Paula de Abrantes (ARG) ≫MIS 15≪
Nicolas Delaroche (FR/CH) ≫First Seen≪
Karim El Maktafi (IT/MA) ≫Hayati≪
Theo Elias (SE) ≫Smoke≪
Florian Genz (DE) ≫WARAGI≪
Yoshikatsu Fujii (JP) ≫Hiroshima Graph – Rabbits abandon their children≪
Tamsin Green (UK) ≫Born of the Purest Parents≪
Monika Hanfland (DE) ≫Puppi arrived≪
Youval Hai (ISR) ≫Dust & Scratches≪
Jan Richard Heinicke (DE) ≫Cornutopia≪
Agata Kalinowska (PL) ≫SCUM≪
Oguz Karakutuk (TR) ≫Delta≪
Ozgur Atlagan & Zeynep Kayan (TR) ≫Kumkuat≪
Jiye Kim (KR) ≫Elephant and Castle≪
Koji Kitagawa (JP) ≫Hello≪
Vladimira Kotra (CZ) ≫Chimera≪
Holger Krischke, Thomas Haubner and students of University of Fine Arts Munster (DE) ≫sensor≪
Ksenia Sidorova (RUS) ≫Simplex≪
Kevin Kunstadt (USA) ≫LETTER BOX≪
Tomasz Laczny (PL) ≫DISAPPEARANCE≪
Martin Lamberty (D) ≫My Friends Got Famous≪
Veronica Losantos (SP) ≫Mansilla≪
Lucie Marsmann (DE) ≫Archiv Alto Adige≪
Ann Massal (FR) ≫The Eye of the Cyclops≪
Julia Mejnertsen ≫M.M.≪
Mike Osborne (US) ≫Federal Triangle≪
Nicolas Polli (CH) ≫Ferox the Forgotten Archives 1976 -2010≪
TJ Proechel (US) ≫26 ft 8 inches≪
Filippo Romano (IT) ≫WATER TANKS IN MATHARE SLUM≪
Rocco Rorandelli (IT) ≫Tobacco≪
Bianca Salvo (IT) ≫Time and Again≪
Rebecca Sampson (DE) ≫Apples for Sale≪
Muriel Schouten (NL) ≫Ways of Understanding, Vood≪
Johann Susebecker & Fabian Melchers (DE) ≫Night People≪
Nikita Teryoshin (RU) ≫Hornless Heritage≪
Yulia Tikhomirova (RU-IT) ≫A Landslide≪
Martin Toft (DK) ≫Te Ahi Kā – The Fires of Occupation≪
Terttu Uibopuu ≫(EST/USA) E.S.E.≪
Siska Vandecasteele (BE) ≫Forain, Kaffers en Boerin≪
Daniel Vogl (D) ≫Walter≪
Andrew Waits (USA) ≫Aporia≪
Jagoda Wisniewska (PL) ≫Czarna Madonna≪
Ole Witt (DE) ≫Help Desk – Random Acts of Administration≪
Marta Wodz (PL) ≫High Culture≪
Rie Yamada (JP) ≫Familie werden≪
END JURY MEMBERS 2018
Valentina Abenavoli, Akina Books, Istanbul
Morten Andersen, photographer and bookmaker, Oslo
Andrea Schmidt, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund
JH Engström, artist, Värmland/ Paris
Pierre Bessard, publisher, Editions Bessard, Paris
Corinne Noordenbos, photographer and educator, Amsterdam
Dana Lixenberg, artist, Amsterdam/ New York
Susan Meiselas, artist, Magnum Foundation, New York
Salvatore Vitale, YET magazine, Lausanne
