READING ROOM
KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020
Shortlist Books Exhibition.
NOKS Independent Art Space is pleased to host " Reading Room / KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020 Shortlist Books Exhibition as the first exhibition of 2020 after the pantemic had started. The Exhibition is being realised in collaboration with Kassel Photobook Festival, Istanbul Photobook Festival and Mas Printing House, İstanbul.
KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020 International Photo Book Competition with Worldwide Shortlist-Exhibition Tour The KASSEL DUMMY AWARD presented by the FOTOBOOKFESTIVAL KASSEL for the best unpublished photo book mock-up of the year has awarded a complete photo book-production to emerging talents since 2010 and celebrated its 10th edition last year.
This shortlist have started to showcase in a big international travelling exhibition at festivals and photography events, before coming to NOKS Art Space in Istanbul.
• PHOTO 2020 – Melbourne (Australia)
• Organvida – Zagreb (Croatia)
• Photoireland – Dublin (Ireland)
• NOKS Art Space – (Turkey)
• Singapore International Photography Festival – (Singapore)
• Fotopia Collective Festival – Cluj (Romania)
• Photobook Week – Aarhus (Denmark)
• IED Madrid – (Spain)
• Angkor Photo Festival – (Cambodia)
• Officine Fotografiche – Rome (Italy)
• Officine Fotografiche – Milan (Italy)
• Encontros da Imagem – Braga (Portugal).
The book that wins First Prize will be produced and published by our festival partner MAS Istanbul. Second and Third Prize Winners will receive a book production voucher given by our partner MAS. The members of this year’s Main Jury will were:
• Felicity Hammond – artist, educator, London (England)
• Katrin Koennig – Photographer, Melbourne (Australia)
• Gwen Lee – Director of the SIPF Festival, (Singapore)
• Anita Tótha – Photographer, Curator, Writer, Auckland (New Zeeland)
• Elias Redstone – Artistic Director of PHOTO 2020, Melbourne (Australia)
• Ufuk Sahin – Director of MAS Matbaa printing house and MASA books (Turkey)
• Daniel Boetker-Smith – Educator, Writer, Photographer, Melbourne (Australia)
• Yanyou Di Yuan – Publisher, Founder of Jiazazhi Press, Ningbo (China)
For the KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 395 books from 44 countries had applied. In a first round, the 50 best books from among the submissions had shortlisted by the jury in late April.
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SHORTLIST 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
Due to the health restrictions for the pandemic, only 5 people can enter to the space at one time. Please book your visiting hours in advance to avoid crowds.
Exhibition can be seen in NOKS Art Space between 24-31th october between 13:00-19:00 hours except from Monday.