The KASSEL DUMMY AWARD is awarded for the best unpublished photobook mock-up of the year by The Fotobookfestival Kassel. In 2020 the shortlist selection was made by the following jury members:
- Chiara Capodici | Leporello Books, Rome
- Frédérique Destribats | L’éditeur du dimanche, Paris
- Daria Tuminas | fotodok, Amsterdam
- Frederic Lezmi | Photographer and Editor, The PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne
- Ufuk Sahin | Printer and Publisher, MASMAT, Istanbul
- Dieter Neubert | Fotobookfestival, Kassel
In total, 395 photobooks from 44 countries were sent in to the 2020 KASSEL DUMMY AWARD. The following shortlist selection resulted in 47 photobooks:
- Andrea Alessandrini (IT) – Piccola Russia
- Alex Avgud (RU/NL) – Exercises in Freedom
- Marta Bogdańska (PL) – Shifters
- Arthur Bondar / Oksana Yushko (RU) – Daisy Rivers
- Christelle Boulé (CH) – Through Glass
- Maryna Brodovska (UA) – My dear Vira
- Anna-Tia Buss (CH) – Pomegranates grow in winter
- Victoria Chaushyan (NL) – Only 1 room left!
- Don Claude (US) – Shedding Light
- Marina Cordes / Signe Heldt (DE) – ebenda
- Nadezhda Ermakova (RU) – An ordinary story
- Jana Evers (DE) – La ZAD
- Yoshikatsu Fujii (JP) – Hiroshima Graph – Everlasting Flow
- Pedro Guimaraes (PT) – Rato Tesoura Pistola
- Claudia Hans (MX) – Wolf Hans
- Yara Jimmink (NL) – When Summer Became Winter
- Jérémie Jung (FR) – Pāri Mūriem
- Kohei Kawatani (JP) – Tofu-Knife
- Josef Kovac (SE) – Searching for Sergei
- Youqine Lefèvre (BE) – The Land of Promises
- Verónica Losantos (DE) – Archaiaž
- Andrei Marin (RO) – Quarantine
- Kazuhiko Matsumura (JP) – Elusive Rainbow
- Lisa Mazenauer (CH) – Mitholz
- Paulina Mohr (DE) – Hier ist die Oberfläche
- Paulina Mohr / Ingrid Timmerarens (DE) – Der ganzen Familie
- Daria Nazarova (RU) – The Spider‘s House
- Marella Oppenheim (GB) – Under Dark Roots/Colonia Dignidad
- Takuji Otsuka (JP) – My precious one
- Michelle Piergoelam (NL) – The untangled tales
- Malte Radtki (DE) – Specimens
- Caio Reisewitz (BR) – Novo Progresso
- Btihal Remli (MA/DE) – the djinni diaries
- Kourtney Roy (FR) – The Other End of the Rainbow
- Etsuko Sato (JP) – PLACES AS POINTS
- Ardelle Schneider (DE) – Butterflies and Caterpillars
- Suzanne Schols (NL) – Polite Fictions
- Agnieszka Sejud (PL) – HOAX
- Yvonne Shaw (NZ) – Auxiliary Movement
- Anastasia Shpilko (RU) – You Just Missed Her
- Alina Simmelbauer (DE) – Garcías Tochter
- Moe Suzuki (JP) – 底翳 SOKOHI
- Krzysztof wiatły (PL) – Paradise Rivers Are Drying Up on Earth
- Kyoko Takemura (DE) – Odd Recipes
- Malte Uchtmann (DE) – Ankommen
- Vinita Vilcane Krilova (LV) – A Quest for Freedom Vol.2
- Sheung Yiu (FI) – Para-images: Cultural Ideas and Technical Apparatuses Beyond the Pictorial Surface
The books are exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art from 18 until 29 September.