Announcing the Dummy Award ’24 shortlist
On March 9th the jury met in Cologne to go through all 420 submitted dummies sent in from 44 countries. In the end, 50 books were selected to make up the shortlist of the Dummy Award ’24. Congratulations to all the shortlisted artists!
The Dummy Award 2023 winners
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Dummy Award 23. Out of 50 shortlisted books, five winning titles were carefully selected, taking into account public and curators’ votes from the 17 venues where the shortlist has been exhibited.
All winning books will receive a 25% production grant for printing their books at MAS printing house, Istanbul and our full promotion support.
“Tropical Trauma Misery Tour” by Rafael Roncato receives the PBM/MAS Prize.
It will produced and published by MAS Matbaa in cooperation with the PhotoBookMuseum later this year. Stay tuned!
Tropical Trauma Misery Tour
by Rafael Roncato, NL/BR
BULLET
by Marco Marzocchi, IT
Photography Firmly Enters the Everyday
by Anna Pylypyuk & Volodymir Shypotilnykov, UKR
Vergissmeinnicht
by Amelie Sachs, DE
HUN
by Julia Mejnertsen, DK
Discover the five winning books
Congratulations to the five artists whose photobooks stood out and convinced both the jury and the visitors!
Shadow over Shadow
by Vitor Casemiro
The dark side of life – corrupted politics, conspiracy theorists, organized crime, psychopathic killers, false prayers and fake news. Looking at the world today we seem to slide into a „New Noir“. SHADOWS OVER SHADOWS plays an elegant fiction / non-fiction game with our perception. What comes as an illustrated script for a shady B-Movie is Vitor Casimeros childhood dream – to make a Film Noir. With the help of images culled from the immense public digital collection of the United States Library of Congress – all made in the US between the 1930s and 1960s, Casimiro has genuinely translated the language of cinema into the language of a photobook. The well-chosen and edited images and the characters he created in his self written script, a Detective, a Femme fatale and a Boxer, constantly draw you further into the story and the book. This visual research into the tropes, clichés and genre conventions of American crime films is an outstanding photobook and a worthy dummy award winner. Congratulations Vitor!
Frederic Lezmi & Markus Schaden,
The PhotoBookMuseum
Size: 21,6 x 28 cm
Pages: 127
Binding: Staple Bound
Author: Vitor Casemiro
Design: Mateus Acioli
Publisher: MASA / The PhotoBookMuseum
Year: 2023
Language: English
ISBN: 978-605-9194-71-6
Price: 25€
via artbookcologne