375 photobooks from all over the world were entered for the 2015 International Photobook Dummy Award. The shortlist-selection of the jury, 50 photobooks, were chosen by Katja Stuke (Böhm/Koboyashi), Jeffrey Ladd (Photographer), Dieter Neubert (Fotobookfestival Kassel), Markus Schaden (ThePhotoBookMuseum), Frederic Lezmi (ThePhotoBookMuseum), Tina Schelhorn (Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne; Curator at Kolga Tbilisi Photo Meeting), Wolfgang Zurborn (Photographer, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne) and Richard Reisen (Kettler Publishing, k-books).
In 2015 the 50 shortlisted books will be exhibited after Kassel during international photo events in Gothenburg, Dublin, Madrid, Kaunas, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Braga, Istanbul and more international exhibition places.
- Christoph Bangert (DE) »hello camel«
- Mary Ellen Bartley (US) »Reading Robert Wilson«
- Uwe Bedenbecker (DE) »Dialectics of Nature«
- Diogo Bento & Jorge Almeida (PT) »Journey [1]«
- Oliver Blobel (DE) »Amateure – Liebhaber der Fotografie«
- Julia Borissova (RU) »Address«
- Federico Ciamei (IT) »Travel Without Moving«
- Matthew Connors (US) »General Assembly«
- Marian Coppieters (BE) »While your heart sleeps in your chest, my sleeve is pounding loud«
- Mauro Corinti (IT) »Rhapsody«
- Annelies de Mey (BE) »One Eye Two Legs No Journey«
- Sigrid Ehemann (DE) »I Want Pink. The Perfect Manual to Sakura«
- Max Eicke (DE) »Dominas«
- Kathrin Esser (DE) »Strömby«
- Yoshikatsu Fujii (JP) »Incipient Strangers«
- Baptiste Giroudon (FR) »Study on the Nature of a Variable Geometry«
- Aras Gökten (DE) »Arkanum«
- Alexander Hagmann (DE) »Korpus«
- Lucy Helton (GB) »Actions of Consequence«
- Thomas Locke Hobbs (US) »I know at a glance«
- Jannis Keil (DE) »Wie Weissrussland nur besser«
- Karina-Sirkku Kurz (DE) »Ungleichgewicht«
- Lucy Levene (GB) »The Spaghetti Tree«
- Aisling McCoy (IE) »The Radiant City«
- Jan McCullough (GB) »Home Instruction Manual«
- Eldad Menuchin (IL) »Concrete«
- Philipp Meuser (DE) »Kadosh«
- Kumiko Motoki (JP) »White Fang«
- Steven Nestor (IE) »Bellum Et Pax«
- Civan Özkanoglu (DE) »Was In Person«
- Louie Palu (CA) »Guantanamo Operational Security Review«
- Irina Popova (NL) »Bijlmer: Atlas of People and Birds«
- Lena-Franziska Posch (DE) »Modern Superheroes«
- Constance Proux & Philippine Proux (BE) »Akkar«
- Caio Reisewitz (BR) »Altamira«
- Lea Ricking (DE) »Schwester Eva Maria I Marianne«
- Paula Roush (GB) »Nothing to Undo«
- Miti Ruangkritya (TH) »Politics no. 3«
- Daniel Rupp (DE) »Elisabeth«
- David Schikora (DE) »Autolose Reifen in der Ukraine«
- Thea Schneider (DE) »E38-15 Tagebuch einer Expedition«
- Juli Sing (DE) »Something Is There, At Least in a Mathematical Sense«
- Frank Sperling (DE) »Wolfsmühle«
- Jannike Stelling (DE) »Mormor«
- Reka Szent-Ivanyi (HU) »There´s Nothing Wrong with That«
- Lorenzo Tricoli (IT) »Le Avventure De Pinocchio«
- Kristin Trüb (DE) »Letzte Generation Ost«
- Kathrin Tschirner (DE) »Kurfürstenstraße«
- Margot Wallard (SE) »Natten«
- Graeme Williams (ZA) »The Europeans«
