KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2024

The Kassel Dummy Award is the international competition for the best unpublished photobook mock-up of the year. Since 2010 a lot of highly interesting photobook dummies have been created, produced and published thanks to the award. Hundreds of books from the shortlist have been presented in numerous international exhibitions and participating photographers have been able to establish contacts with galleries, publishers and festivals and present their work to an international audience. Starting 2023 the PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne together with its sponsor and partner MAS Matbaa, Istanbul has taken over the award.

During Fotofestiwal you will see 51 books from all over the world selected from 420 books from 44 countries that were submitted for the 2024 Dummy Award.

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Art_Inkubator, Tymienieckiego 3

DID YOU KNOW THAT Art_Inkubator is located in the former factory of Karol Scheibler II, son of the greatest factory owner in Łódź? 

Every firstborn son in the Scheibler family was named Karol. The factory is a part of Księży Młyn, also called a “town in town” or “Polish Manchester”. Scheibler Senior built the largest textile factory in this part of Europe, as well as an estate of workers’ houses, many palaces, hospitals, schools, and parks. Karol Scheibler’s legacy was later developed by Karol Scheibler II, who erected factories at Tymienieckiego and Milionowa Streets. The factory still has the original Russian gauge railway tracks! You will find them near the passage to the new “Fuzja” estate.