We invite you to submit your entries to the international Paper Photo Award 2025 competition dedicated entirely to photographic publications! Category: “Photobook Dummy”:

1. What publications can be submitted?
   1.1. For the competition in the “photobook dummy” category, we accept projects prepared in paper form (so-called dummies) of photobooks that have not yet been published. Photobooks published through self-publishing are also eligible for this category, provided that their total print run did not exceed 30 copies. The basic criterion for evaluation in the competition is how the artistic expression resonates in the book form. The photographs in the project are not evaluated, but rather the photo book as a specific creative expression.
   1.2. Dummies created after January 1, 2024, may be submitted.
   
2. Awards
   1.1. Main prize: PLN 5,000! [approximately: 1150 EURO]
   1.2. Six mock-ups will be shortlisted, and their authors will be invited to Katowice for a meeting with the authors during the festival’s opening weekend, for which they will receive a gross remuneration of PLN 1,000. In addition, the festival will provide them with accommodation during the opening weekend.
   1.3. Each member of the jury may award their own individual honorary distinction.
   1.4. Approximately 30 dummies will be presented as part of the Paper Photo Award 2025 exhibition at Galeria Pusta in Katowice.
   
3. Dates
   1.1. Start of the competition: September 5, 2025
   1.2. Deadline for submitting dummies: October 15, 2025 (the date of delivery of the mock-up is decisive!)
   1.3. Announcement of the shortlist: by October 17, 2025
   1.4. Announcement of the winner and opening of the post-competition exhibition: October 25, 2025.
   
4. Submissions
   To submit a book, you must:
   4.1. Fill out the form available here
   4.2. Send a properly secured copy of the dummy by October 15, 2025 (the date of delivery is decisive!) to the following address: Katowice Miasto Ogrodów, plac Sejmu Śląskiego 2, 40-032 Katowice, POLAND (with the note “PPF” on the envelope).
   If you need to provide details for the courier, please provide the following: Katarzyna Łata, email: ppf@paperphoto.pl, tel. (+48) 505005240
   
5. The competition jury consists of:
   – Jakub Dziewit (unContemporary Foundation),
   – Dr. Katarzyna Łata (Katowice City of Gardens / FotoArtProjekt Association),
   – Dr. Adam Pańczuk (Sputnik Photos),
   – Dr. Rafał Siderski (Department of Photography, UJD),
   – Dr. Katarzyna Zolich (Małe Nakłady Foundation).
   
6. Full contest rules: click here