LUMA RENCONTRES
DUMMY BOOK AWARD ARLES 2024
OPEN CALL
MARCH 27 — MAY 10, 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. 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. The deadline for applications is May 10, 2024. 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.
With the support of the LUMA Foundation.
ENDOWMENT
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.
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION
→ 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.
→ the submission can be individual or collective.
→ Only one project may be submitted. It must be unpublished and not under contract to any publisher.
→ The ISBN number is not necessary. Dummies with this number must prove that they are not committed to a publishing house.
→ 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.
Find out all the details about this opportunity, by visiting their information page here.
Photo credit: Les Recontres d'Arles