Kassel Dummy Award - the short list

The Fotobookfestival Kassel together with its cooperation partner Verlag Kettler again has invited all photographers to present their as-yet unpublished photobooks to an international public and eminent experts. In 2017 the best 49 books has been shortlisted by a shortlist-jury and will be exhibited at international photo events, amongst others, in Istanbul, Moscow, Rome, Madrid, Dublin, Aarhus, Sofia, Zagreb and Lodz. From these 49 titles, 3 winners will be chosen by an international jury at the ISTANBUL PHOTOBOOK FESTIVAL on 28 April. The winner of the First Prize will be produced and published by our cooperation partner Verlag Kettler, Germany. Second and Third Prize is a book production voucher given by our partner k-books, who specializes in high-quality book productions in small quantities.

Here is the 2017 shortlist!

• Felix Adler (Germany) »Paule«
• Hugo Alcol (Spain) »Archipiélago«
• Monique Atherton (USA) »First Avenue«
• Özgür Atlagan (Turkey) »shovel-eye«
• Marina Berio (USA) »The space in the mind in the body in the space«
• Stephan Bögel (Germany) »Scenic Utah«
• Haishu Chen (China) »Zona Rossa«
• Kenji Chiga (Japan) »bird,night,and then?«
• Kenji Chiga (Japan) »happn?«
• Ivan Clemente (Spain) »H«
• Jose Luis Cuevas (Mexico) »Observaciones sobre la resistencia de los cuerpos«
• Collettivo DAV (Italy) »Tara, il fiume dei miracoli«
• Sigrid Ehemann (Germany) »Bruno Is a Celebrity«
• Vika Eksta (Latvia) »Dievs Daba  Darbs«
• Keiji Fujimoto (Japan) »Forget-me-not«
• Andi Galdi Vinko (Hungary) »Paradisco«
• Mario C. Girela (Spain) »The Roots and the Ruins«
• Elodie Grethen (France) »Tokyo Stories«
• Tom Griggs & Paul Kwiatkowski (USA) »Ghost Guessed«
• Ilyas Hajji (Russia) »Anti/terror«
• Miki Hasegawa (Japan) »Internal Notebook«
• Maki Hayashida (Japan) »The Odyssey«
• Tomota Ikawa (Japan) »Yureru«
• Zeynep Kayan (Turkey) »untitled«
• Alex Kemman (The Netherlands) »Whispers of War«
• Ludmila Ketslakh (USA) »Uncertainty of Being«
• Blair Kitchener (New Zealand) »Duplex City«
• David Klammer (Germany) »Good Morning Auroville«
• Eva Krampen Kosloski (Italy) »3 Agosto 1944«
• Olga Kravets, Maria Morina, Oksana Yushko (Russia) »Grozny: Nine Cities«
• Karsten Kronas (Germany) »Searching for Mr. X«
• Ikuru Kuwajima (Japan/Russia) »I, Oblomov«
• Rony Maltz (Brazil) »Riocities«
• Giulia Mangione (Italy) »The Happy Show«
• Alix Marie (France) »Bleu«
• Kazuhiko Matsumura (Japan) »Guru Guru  ~My Transmigration~«
• Mark McGuinness (Ireland) »Dreaming of Figure Eights«
• Anne Müchler & Nico Schmitz (Germany) »Encounter — Truth Construction«
• Antonio Perez Rio (Spain) »Louvre – Art Guide for Cyborgs«
• Torsten Schumann (Germany) »Off Keel«
• Francesca Romana Semerano (Italy) »Tessuti Toniù«
• Luca Spano (Italy) »Looking for the North«
• Malgorzata Stankiewicz (Poland) »cry of an echo«
• Nicole Strasser (Germany) »Ans Meer!«
• Mayumi Suzuki (Japan) »The Restoration Will«
• Hiro Tanaka (Japan) »Chicharron«
• Ishan Tankha (India) »A Peal of Spring Thunder«
• Karan Vaid (India) »The Indian Dog Show«
• Hannes Wiedemann (Germany) »Grinders«