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.

In addition the Photobook Dummy Award, this year we are excited to introduce the newly launched “Photozine Award” which aims at encouraging more people, especially the youth, to join the photozine creation and publication sectors. The worldwide open call for Photozine Award is divided into Open and Student Categories. Specifically, the Student Category is targeting at open recruits of works from students at various levels globally.

About the selection scheme, jury from the Photobook Dummy Award will shortlist at most 15 finalists in the first round, while for the Photozine Award, 10 finalists from each category will be shortlisted. Eventually 3 winners for the Photobook Dummy Award and each of the two Photozine Award Categories will be selected among the finalists.

All the finalists’ works will be exhibited at the Hong Kong Photobook Festival 2025. Winners can utilise this opportunity to have professional exchange with the jury and also share their creation process with the participating audience.

Submission Deadline " Participants should submit their works with their submission form(s) so that the package arrives at Lumenvisum’s office by 15th February 2025 (Hong Kong Time) (by post or in person). Please allow ample time to enter and mail your works. Late submissions will not be considered by the jury.

Prizes

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.