DUMMY AWARD 2017
The Fotobookfestival Kassel together with its cooperation partner Verlag Kettler has invited all photographers to present their as-yet unpublished photobooks to an international public and eminent experts. In 2017 the best 49 books has been shortlisted by a shortlist-jury and will be exhibited at international photo events, amongst others, in Istanbul, Moscow, Rome, Madrid, Dublin, Aarhus, Sofia, Zagreb and Lodz.
From these 49 titles, 3 winners have been chosen by an international jury at the ISTANBUL PHOTOBOOK FESTIVAL on 28 April. The winner of the first prize is Hugo Alcol’s (Spain) »Archipiélago«<, the winner of the second and third prize were Zeynep Kayan’s (Turkey) »Untitled« and Hannes Wiedemann’s (Germany) »Grinders«.
Shortlisted JURY
FEDERICA CHIOCCHETTI (Photocaptionist.com)
EVA-MARIA KUNZ (ceiba editions, ceibaeditions.com)
ANDREA SCHMIDT (Verlag Kettler, Dortmund)
JEFFREY LADD (Photographer, Cologne)
MARKUS SCHADEN (The PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne)
DIETER NEUBERT (Fotobookfestival, Kassel)
Exhibiting artists:
Felix Adler, Hugo Alcol, Monique Atherton, Özgür Atlagan, Marina Berio, Stephan Bögel, Haishu Chen, Kenji Chiga, Kenji Chiga, Ivan Clemente, Jose Luis Cuevas, Collettivo DAV, Sigrid Ehemann, Vika Eksta, Keiji Fujimoto, Andi Galdi Vinko, Mario C. Girela, Elodie Grethen, Tom Griggs & Paul Kwiatkowski, Ilyas Hajji, Miki Hasegawa, Maki Hayashida, Tomota Ikawa, Zeynep Kayan, Alex Kemman, Ludmila Ketslakh, Blair Kitchener, David Klammer, Eva Krampen Kosloski, Olga Kravets, Maria Morina, Oksana Yushko, Karsten Kronas, Ikuru Kuwajima, Rony Maltz, Giulia Mangione, Alix Marie, Kazuhiko Matsumura, Mark McGuinness, Anne Müchler & Nico Schmitz, Antonio Perez Rio, Torsten Schumann, Francesca Romana Semerano, Luca Spano, Malgorzata Stankiewicz, Nicole Strasser, Mayumi Suzuki, Hiro Tanaka, Ishan Tankha, Karan Vaid, Hannes Wiedemann.
Final jury:
FEDERICA CHIOCCHETTI (PHOTOCAPTIONIST.COM, LONDON)
MARTIN PARR (MAGNUMPHOTOS, BRISTOL)
ANDREA SCHMIDT (VERLAG KETTLER, DORTMUND)
JASON FULFORD (J+L BOOKS, NEY YORK)
ARON MÖREL (MÖREL BOOKS, LONDON)
MARKUS SCHADEN (THE PHOTOBOOKMUSEUM, COLOGNE)
DIETER NEUBERT (FOTOBOOKFESTIVAL, KASSEL)
THE WINNING BOOKS
FIRST PRIZE Hugo Alcol (Spain) »Archipiélago«
This enigmatic book is both a puzzle and a delight at the same time. As the photos show anything from a Spanish social event, to a weird woman with a rabbit and a dead rat floating upside down in a green pool. Although difficult to quite see what is going on, we are constantly drawn back in to try and understand the narrative and we are wanting to come back for another view. It gets under our skin, and that is a rare attribute.
Martin Parr
SECOND PRIZE Zeynep Kayan (Turkey) »Untitled«
Enigmatic images and a tight edit of repetitive motifs combine to make a rich puzzle of a book. The jury all liked this book without being able to say why, and that’s a compliment.
Jason Fulford
THIRD PRIZE Hannes Wiedemann (Germany) »Grinders«
We were all both fascinated and disgusted by Grinders, ‘an encounter with DIY cyborgs’ by Hannes Wiedemann. There is something absolutely repulsive and yet current and relevant about this community of ‘body-hackers’ who perform the somewhat disturbing ritual of implanting devices and gadgets into their human body. Wiedmann portrays body-hacking by mingling an almost surgical distance with a visceral approach and he does it with great balance, blissfully staying out of poignancy and judgment. A disquieting feeling of cyborg lust is perceivable on the few faces that appear in the dummy. I once met a very talented artist affected by schizophrenia who believed the government had implanted a microchip under his skin to spy on his subversive life, as he had been part of an extremely leftist movement during the Italian Years of Lead. Who would have thought that what can be seen as the paranoia of a problematic activist artist of the 1970s could become, decades after, a real fetishistic ritual of people who take pleasure in having a mechanical or electronic device embedded in their body?
Federica Chiocchetti
KASSEL PHOTOBOOK AWARD 2017 – THE EXPERTS SELECTION
Since 2008 experts have been asked to name their favorite photobook of the previous year and to justify their choice. This has resulted in around 30 books every year from renowned jurors from all over the world. The books showcase the current state of play in a medium that is incredibly lively and mobile. As forms, they range from very simple magazine-style publications to traditionally crafted books as well as handmade one-off items and heavy, exclusive, large format products in slip cases and cassettes. The essence of printed photography and the strong narrative force of photography in book form can be seen in the high-class selection of books included every year. Some of the works are already among the masterpieces and classics in the history of photography, while others are still waiting to be discovered. In 2008, a world’s first ›Best Of Experts‹ photobook listing was undertook, the aim being to create an annual overview of the most outstanding photographic books. At the time, it seemed like a culmination point. Today it feels more like the medium is just being discovered.
Exhibiting artists:
Valentina Abenavoli »Anaesthesia« (Akina Books) – selected by / odabrao Lars Willumeit
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black »Negative Publicity« (Aperture) – selected by / odabrao Rob Hornstra
Dieter De Lathauwer »I loved my wife)« (Lecturis) – selected by / odabrala Tamara Berghmans
Leif Elggren Carl Michael von Hausswolff »The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland« (Art & Theory) – selected by / odabrala Chiara Capodici
Petrus Fieret »Gerard Petrus Fieret« (Photo Institute Le Bal and Editions Xavier Barral) – selected by / odabrao Willem van Zoetendaal
Alexander Gronskiy and Ksenia Babushkina »Schema« (Orbita) – selected by / odabrala Ekaterina Zueva
Jan Gross »The Jungle Book« (Actes Sud) – selected by / odabrao Yuan Di
Gregory Halpern »ZZYZX« (Mackbooks) – selected by / odabrao Martin Amis
Mao Ishikawa »Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa« (Session Press) – selected by / odabrala Lesley Martin
Miho Kajioka »And, where did the peacocks go?« (Selfpublished) – selected by / odabrao Pierre Bessard
Korhan Karaoysal »Reason-Purpose« (MASA Books) – selected by / odabrao Volkan Kiziltunc
Eric Kessels »Small Change« (Kesselskramer) – selected by / odabrali Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt
Justine Kurland »Highway Kind« (Aperture) – selected by / odabrao John Gossage
Jack Latham »Sugar paper theories« (Selfpublished) – selected by / odabrala Laia Abril
Shane Lavalette »One Sun, One Shadow« (Selfpublished) – selected by / odabrao Sebastian Hau
Anne Lefebvre »Hollingshausen« (Pierre van Kleist) – selected by / odabrao Daniel Blaufuks
John MacLean »Hometowns« (jmaclean) – selected by / odabrao Laurence Vecten
Arwed Messmer »Zelle/Cell« (Hatje Cantz) – selected by / odabrao Gerry Badger
Richard Mosse »Incoming« (Mackbooks) – selected by / odabrao Markus Schaden
Nicholas Muellner »In Most Tides An Island« (SPBH Editions) – selected by / odabrao David Campany
Christof Nüssli »Withheld due to:« (Verlag cpress) – selected by / odabrala Eva-Maria Kunz
Thomas Prior »Bomba« (Selfpublished) – selected by / odabrao Jeffrey Ladd
Moises Saman »Discordia« (Selfpublished) – selected by / odabrao Carlos Spottorno
Leif Sandberg »Ending« (Bœcker Books ) – selected by / odabrao Yumi Goto
Thomas Sauvin »线 / Xian« (Selfpublished) – selected by / odabrao Frederic Lezmi
Carlos Spottorno and »La Grieta« (Astiberri) – selected by / odabrao Remi Coignet
Defrost Studio »IMMO Refugee« (Defrost Studio) – selected by / odabrao Martin Parr
Batia Suter »Parallel Encyclopedia # 2« (Roma Publishing) – selected by / odabrao Thomas Gust
Guy Tillim »Edit Beijing« (Editions Bessard) – selected by / odabrao Anatole Desachy
Lorenzo Tricoli »Other Adventures of Pinocchio« (Skinnerboox and d&books) – selected by / odabrala Federica Chiocchetti
Peter van Agtmael »Buzzing at the Sill« (Kehrer) – selected by / odabrao Wolfgang Zurborn
Marie-Isabel Vogel, Alain Rappaport »Maximilian Stejskal – Folklig idrott« (Edition Patrick Frey) – selected by / odabrao Brian Griffin
Sun Yanchu »Ficciones« (Jiazazhi Press) – selected by / odabrao Zhang Xiao
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