Dummy Award 2024
420 books from 44 countries were submitted for the 2024 Dummy Award.
The shortlist selection resulted in 51 photobooks.
420 books from 44 countries were submitted for the 2024 Dummy Award.
The shortlist selection resulted in 51 photobooks.
Meet the 2024 Jury*
The shortlist jury of the Dummy Award 2024 is made up of an interesting and diverse group of experts of different areas in the photobook field – ranging from a curator to a designer, from an editor to a photographer and from a museum director to a printer. The jury met in Cologne on March 9th 2024.
* Sophia Greiff (DE)
is co-head of program and curator at C/O Berlin. As a doctoral candidate at the Folkwang University of the Arts her focus is on the research-based-photobook. She worked as a graduate research assistant in the Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography program at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Previously, Sophia co-curated the Fotodoks Festival for Contemporary Documentary Photography for many years.
* Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo (COL)
is the founder of 20Fotógrafos and Colectivo+1 and Editor at Raya Editorial. Santiago curated the collective exhibition “Conflict and Peace” of the Commission for the Clarification of the Truth, Colombia and had his projects exhibited in over 100 solo and group exhibitions, such as Trasatlántica-PhotoEspaña, Fototeca de Cuba and Unseen-Amsterdam.
* Nina Strand (NO)
is a photographer, writer and founder of Objektiv Press. Nina holds a BA in project management, and a MA in creative writing. She works with image and text and uses the book as her gallery. Most recently, she’s published the photo-novel Current Condition (Journal, 2023).
* Ramon Pez (UK)
is a creative director & curator. His studio practice is based in London and focuses on stories and narrative experiments within editorial & Art projects that blend different platforms. As well as that, Pez is currently Art Director at Thames & Hudson Publishing and creating experimental workshops on books.
* Charlotte Schmitz (DE)
is a documentary photographer using collaborative practices and long term research to challenge traditional documentary perspectives. She is the co-founder of Friendzone.Studio and The Journal, a global photography collective of several hundred women and non-binary photographers and she is the first recipient of the »FotoEvidence W Award« with her book La Puente, published in 2019.
* Ufuk Şahin (TR)
studied photography at Hofstra University, NY. Since 2007, he has been part of the core team at MAS printing house as the second-generation manager and partner. In 2010, he founded MASA, a publishing house specializing in facsimiles, photobooks and art-books; which has since published more than 40 books. He is a photography enthusiast and an avid photobook collector.
* Frederic Lezmi (DE)
is a photographer, designer and photobook curator. He is artistic director of The PhotoBookMuseum in Cologne, wich he co-founded together with Markus Schaden in 2014. Frederic teaches photobook design at various universities and faculties in Germany (FH Dortmund, FH Hannover and DHBW Ravensburg).
The World Tour 2024
Two boxes with the 51 shortlisted dummy travel the world! Worldwide dummy exposure guaranteed!
Tour dates
The PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne, Germany → 16.03. – 25.04.2024
Grisart, Barcelona, Spain → 2.05.-28.05.2024
Istituto Italiano di Fotografia, Milano, Italy → 15.05.–15.06.2024
Fotofestiwal, Łódź, Poland → 13.06.-23.06.2024
Rencontres Arles, France → 01.07.-6.07.2024
Lovely House, São Paulo, Brazil → 24.08.-26.08.2024
FELIFA, Buenos Aires, Argentina → 27.09.-29.09.2024
Hong Kong Photobook Festival, Hong Kong → 4.10.-10.11.2024
Subject to change – check latest tour dates on Instagram
If you are organising a festival or run an institution or art space and you are interested in hosting the Dummy Award Shortlist please get in touch with . We are especially looking forward to add locations in Africa and North/South America to our world tour.