Book dummies by Lisa-Marie Gruber and Nora Börding are among the 50 photo books selected for the Dummy Award 2025. Both projects started during the two photographers’ studies at DMJX in the fall 2023.
Frontpage of Lisa-Maria Gruber’s personal project “Vermilion Fingertips” that she started as her Visual Project during her Photo 2 study at DMJX in the fall 2023. The book dummy is among the 50 photo books selected for the Dummy Award 2025. Photo: Lisa-Maria GruberLisa-Maria Gruber designed her first dummy at DMJX and continued working on her project back at her home university in Hannover as part of the International Photobook Class. Photo: Lisa-Maria GruberVermilion Fingertips is a visual essay exploring the personal experience of living with skin picking. Through photos that depict the physical impact and inner landscape, it examines the emotional effects, including social discomfort and the paradoxical relief felt during picking. Photo: Lisa-Maria GruberNora Börding & Anne Speltz are nominated for the Book Dummy Award with their mutual project “The forgotten stories of the Boat Driver”. Nora Börding started the project as her final Diploma Project at DMJX in the fall 2025. Photo: Nora Börding.Back at her home university in Hannover, Nora Börding continued the project together with Anne Speltz as their final BA project. Photo: Nora Börding.
395 books from 48 countries were submitted for the 2025 Dummy Award. The Dummy Award 2025 shortlist is going to travel around the world, with confirmed stops in Barcelona, Milan, Cologne, Dortmund, Łódź, Prag, Dublin, Arles, Bangkok, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Dhaka, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile. You can see all the 50 nominated book dummies at the Book Dummy You Tube channel
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