Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award 2025
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Opens1 Oct 2024
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Deadline15 Feb 2025
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Entry feeFREE
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The Hong Kong Photobook Festival returns in its third edition, and with it the Photozine and Photobook Dummy Award that is set to launch in February of 2025.
Overview
The Photobook Dummy Award is one of the highlights of the Hong Kong Photobook Festival, which aims to support emerging artists and provide them with opportunities to showcase their work at international festivals. This year photographers, artists and creative talents from all over the world are as usual invited to submit their works. Thanks to the support of various partners, the winning and shortlisted dummies from previous year have been toured and exhibited in numerous places, included but not limited to New Zealand, Germany, India, Taiwan, Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy.
Practical Info
The Award is open to photographers, artists, designers and all the creative talents worldwide. There is no specific age and nationality limit for entering the Award. The photobook dummy can be done individually or collectively and must be original. The dummy must be self-published or unpublished and it cannot be published by any registered publisher or has never been committed to being published by any other publisher. The photobook dummy can be presented in any language, and must be created on or after the 1st of January 2022.
The winner’s dummies/zines and other shortlisted dummies/zines will be exhibited in the Hong Kong Photobook Festival 2025. The winner of the First Prize of Photobook Dummy will be granted a maximum subsidy of HKD$20,000 for participation in the visit of the international photobook festival; or self-published photobooks. The winner of the First Prize of Photozine will be granted a maximum subsidy of HKD$3000 (per category) for participation in the visit of the international photobook festival; or self-published photozines.
About Hong Kong Photobook Festival
To promote photobook culture, Hong Kong Photobook Festival was found by Lumenvisum in 2020. The Festival aims to connect photographers, artists and a diverse range of publishers and independent groups from all over the world. It also serves as a supporter of emerging artists to gain exposure in the field of contemporary photography.
