Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2024

For the 55th edition of the festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles and the LUMA Foundation are once again offering the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award, a prize to help publish a book model.

Overview

Initiated in 2015 and endowed with a production budget of €25,000, this award is open to professional photographers and artists using photography, upon proposal of a book model that has never been published. Special attention will be paid to experimental and innovative editorial forms. Les Rencontres de la photographie and the LUMA Foundation will form a jury to select the shortlisted dummies and the winning one. This set will be exhibited as part of the official course of the 2024 festival.

Practical Info

The award comes with a €25,000 production grant including €3,000 of royalties, for the author or authors. This sum is intended exclusively for the production of the presented project. Les Rencontres d'Arles, in collaboration with the chosen publisher, will ensure the project’s editorial and financial follow-up.

The award is open to all photographers and artists using photography of all ages and nationalities. Their work must have appeared in group and/or solo shows and publications that have gained them national or international recognition. Only one project may be submitted. It must be unpublished and not under contract to any publisher. The project submitted must be as close as possible to its final version, including the form and materials (type of paper, etc.), and technically feasible within a traditional book production framework. The project must be financially feasible within the production budget allocated by the award and may be modified by the designated publishing house if it is awarded the award.

A pre-selection of works will be made by Les Rencontres d'Arles and LUMA Foundation during the month of June, followed by the designation of the winning work, which will be announced during the opening week of the festival, on Friday, July 5 at the théâtre Antique. The jury will take into account the editorial quality of the presented project and its technical and financial feasibility.

The shortlisted projects and the winning dummy book will be exhibited from July 1 to September 29, 2024 as part of Les Rencontres d’Arles official program and, in whole or in part, online on Les Rencontres d'Arles website, for one year after the participant’s consent. Authors will be asked to send a second copy, not returned, which will be included in the archives of Les Rencontres d’Arles. Official announcement of the winning dummy during the opening week of Les Rencontres d'Arles, at the théâtre Antique, on Friday July 5, 2024. Exhibition of the winning dummy and the shortlisted dummies throughout the festival, at Mécanique Générale, from July 1 to September 29, 2024.

About Les Rencontres d'Arles

Every summer since 1970, over the course of more than forty exhibitions at various of the city's heritage sites, the Rencontres d'Arles has been a major influence in disseminating the best of world photography and playing the role of a springboard for photographic and contemporary creative talents.