Kassel Photobook Dummies 

Each year, Fotobookfestival Kassel invites photographers to present their as-of-yet unpublished photobooks to an international public and to eminent experts. The best dummies will be exhibited at international photo events in, among other places, Istanbul, Moscow, Rome, Dublin, Aarhus, Sofia, Zagreb and Lodz. And of course, at Photobookweek in Aarhus.  

Thursday 1. October – Sunday 4. October 2020 

Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus School of Architecture, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus

SHORTLISTED BOOKS 2020:

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) – Archaia
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 Światły (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 SHORTLIST JURY
We would like to give a big thank you to our fantastic shortlist jury members. They have all made an extraordinary amount of effort to select the best books for our 2020 Shortlist, even in Covid-19 times. Chapeau!
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