Image: Fides Sigeneger

Running 1-27 May
Critical Academy Talk 12pm 19 May

The Library Project
4 Temple Bar Street, Dublin 2

Opening Hours Tue-Fri 11am-6pm/Sat-Sun 12-6pm

Every year The Library Project is one of the hosts of the travelling Fotobookfestival Kassel Dummy Award shortlist, this year Dublin is their first destination! This edition of Fotobookfestival Kassel celebrates 10 years of Photobooks and is running 31 May-3 June in Kassel.

50 shortlisted Photobook dummies are selected for the shortlist and exhibited in Kassel and at other international photo events. 3 winners are chosen by an international jury and the winner of the First Prize is produced and published by Verlag Kettler.

The Shortlist 2018

Bahadir Aksan, Daffodil (TR)
Taufiqur Rahman Anik, Modern Photography (BD) 
Julia Borissova, DOM (Document Object Model) (RU)
Alessandra Carosi, Ruota (IT)
Piergiorgio Casotti, Emanuele Brutti, INDEX G (IT)
Federico Clavarino, Hereafter (IT)
Celine Croze, Nothing Happened (FR)
Michael Danner, Migration as Avant-Garde (DE)
Paula de Abrantes, MIS 15 (ARG)
Nicolas Delaroche, First Seen (FR/CH)
Karim El Maktafi, Hayati (IT/MA)
Theo Elias, Smoke (SE)
Florian Genz, WARAGI (DE)
Yoshikatsu Fujii, Hiroshima Graph – Rabbits abandon their children (JP)
Tamsin Green, Born of the Purest Parents (UK)
Monika Hanfland, Püppi arrived (DE)
Youval Hai, Dust & Scratches (ISR)
Jan Richard Heinicke, Cornutopia (DE)
Agata Kalinowska, SCUM (PL)
Oguz Karakütük, Delta (TR)
Özgür Atlagan & Zeynep Kayan, Kumkuat (TR)
Jiye Kim, Elephant and Castle (KR)
Koji Kitagawa, Hello (JP)
Vladimíra Kotra, Chiméra (CZ)
Holger Krischke, Thomas Haubner and students of University of Fine Arts Münster, sensor (DE)
Ksenia Sidorova, Simplex (RUS)
Kevin Kunstadt, Letter Box (USA)
Tomasz Laczny, Disappearance (PL)
Martin Lamberty, My Friends Got Famous (D)
Verónica Losantos, Mansilla (SP)
Lucie Marsmann, Archiv Alto Adige (DE)
Ann Massal, The Eye of the Cyclops (FR)
Julia Mejnertsen, M.M. (DK)
Mike Osborne, Federal Triangle (US)
Nicolas Polli, Ferox the Forgotten Archives 1976 -2010 (CH)
TJ Proechel, 26 ft 8 inches (US)
Filippo Romano, Water Tanks in Mathare Slum (IT)
Rocco Rorandelli, Tobacco (IT)
Bianca Salvo, Time and Again (IT)
Rebecca Sampson, Apples for Sale (DE)
Muriel Schouten, Ways of Understanding, Vood (NL)
Johann Süßebecker & Fabian Melchers, Night People (DE)
Nikita Teryoshin, Hornless Heritage (RU)
Yulia Tikhomirova, A Landslide (RU-IT)
Martin Toft, Te Ahi Kā – The Fires of Oc (DK)
Terttu Uibopuu, E.S.E. (EST/USA)
Siska Vandecasteele, Forain, Kaffers en Boerin (BE)
Daniel Vogl, Walter (D)
Andrew Waits, Aporia (USA)
Jagoda Wisniewska, Czarna Madonna (PL)
Ole Witt, Help Desk – Random Acts of Administration (DE)
Marta Wódz, High Culture (PL)
Rie Yamada, Familie werden (JP)

The international events exhibiting the shortlist:

fotobookfestival.org