Dummy Book Award | Arles 2019

Since 2015, Les Rencontres d’Arles has offered an award supporting the publication of a dummy book. This prize, with a production budget of €25,000, is open to any new photographer or artist using photography, submitting a previously unpublished dummy book. Special attention is paid to experimental and innovative forms of publishing.

All professional photographers and artists, individual or collective, using photography, of any age or nationality, are eligible with one original unpublished project. Their work must have been featured in group and/or solo shows or in publications giving them national or international recognition.The project must be as close as possible to the final version, both in its form and the materials used (type of paper, etc.), and technically feasible using traditional book production methods.

Rencontres d’Arles will shortlist 25 nominees. A jury (currently being selected) will meet in May to choose the winner, whose name will be announced during the festival’s opening week (the exact date will be released later). The jury will consider the submitted projects’ editorial quality and technical feasibility. The nominees and the winner will be individually notified by email in May. The Rencontres d’Arles will invite the winner to the festival’s opening week (July 1 to 7, 2019) and the 2019 winner’s dummy book, as well as those of the nominees, will be exhibited this summer during the Rencontres d’Arles.

With support from Luma Foundation.

Deadline: 13 April 2019
Info: rencontres-arles.com/en/luma-rencontres-dummy-book-award-arles-2019

Image: Phénomènes by Marina Gadonneix, winner of the 2018 LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award.