Paper Photo Award 2025
postcompetition exhibition
Galeria miasta Ogrodów (City of Gardens Gallery)
(adress: Katowice, Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 2)
opening: October 26, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
the exhibition will run until February 1, 2026
The exhibition will feature photobooks and dummies/zines selected in the international Paper Photo Award 2025 and Paper Photo Dummy Award 2025 competitions. A total of 99 publications were submitted to the competition. The jury consisted of Jakub Dziewit, Katarzyna Łata, Adam Pańczuk, Rafał Siderski, and Katarzyna Zolich. The winning publications and honorable mentions will be announced during the awards gala on October 25 at 6:00 p.m. at the City of Gardens Gallery (Katowice, Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 2).
Photobooks selected for the exhibition (publications in bold are on the competition shortlist):
- Henri Airo – War is a Disaster
- Anna Bedyńska – Forever Mine
- Hélène Bellenger – Bianco Ordinario
- Basia Budniak – Czarne serce
- Natalia Cichosz – Już po
- Weronika Gęsicka – Encyclopaedia
- Michal Iwanowski – Go Home Polish
- Mindaugas Kavaliauskas – A-SPOT. A Journey into the World of Airplane Spotting
- Natalia Kędzierska – SYŁO. Audiowizualne wywiady etnograficzne
- Marta Kiela-Czarnik – wejdzie i wyjdzie, i znajdzie [ang.”come in and go out and find”]
- Gábor Arion Kudász – Tropical Depression
- Uwe Langmann – Tanchōdzuru
- Emilia Martin – I saw a tree bearing stones in the place of apples and pears
- Gilles Mercier – L’élégance de vos absences / Vol.1 Comme un vivant porte-bonheur
- Ela Polkowska – Splinter
- Reinterpretacje. Publikacja powarsztatowa – collective publication edited by Bartek Warzecha
- Eliza-Sophie Sekrève – Sometimes I am fourteen
- Michał Sita – Historia Polski vol. 2
- Karolina Spolniewski – Hotel of Eternal Light
- Studio Prokopiou – Wet Paint
- Marta Szewczyk, Monika Proniewska – Velvet flowers & melting views
- Éva Szombat – Echo In Delirium
- Joanna Szpak-Ostachowska – Sześć wazonów
- Karol Szymkowiak – 0169-8629 5223-01750
- Javier Talavera – Not all bald men with beards are Javier Talavera
- Joanna Tochman – Sunspot
- Józefina Tomaszewska – 46 kroków
- Marcel Top – Reversed Surveillance
- Rebecca Topakian – Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories
- Katarzyna Wąsowska, Marianne Wasowska – Waiting for the snow
- Magdalena Wysocka & Claudio Pogo – And Then There Was the Night
- Zupagrafika (David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka) – Kiosk
- Zupagrafika (David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka) – Eastern Blocks II
Dummies selected for the exhibition (bolded publications are on the competition shortlist):
- Viktoria Adamava – Czur, jestem w domku
- Kazimiera Bielawska – Wyrwane
- Barbara Bryła – Drogą anonsu
- Elli Chalari – A soft place to fall
- Emilia Cięciwa, Aleksander Steblik – Ampułka
- Nela Dymopulos-Kusto – Będzie dobrze. Musi.
- Krystian Furman – Między Ścianami Ciszy
- Bartek Glaza – Meeting Point
- Krystyna Gorayska – Practice Rooms
- Anna Hornik – Sand and Mud / Piasek i błoto
- Daria Izworska – Boże Dzieci
- Katarzyna Jankowska – Kobieta o zimnych dłoniach
- Adrienn Józan – Summer Cancelled
- Eliza Kania – lost memory
Tomasz Kawecki – flux- Agnieszka Kowalczyk – Wujek
- Katerina Kouzmitcheva – Sorry for the lack of contact
- Aleksander Kubiak – Ilu mieć potomków
- Alicja Krasowska – Technomaria
- Bartłomiej Krężołek – Once in a Blue Moon
- Jerzy Łapiński – Kanty
- Olena Morozova – I Knew She Would Never Have Children
- Aleksandra Mrówczyńska – Ojcze nasz
- Joanna Olichwer – Do It To Yourself
- Aleksandra Pawłowska – Dlaczego dwa martwe gołębie nie mogą latać, skoro mają aż cztery skrzydła?
- Paulina Pior – I will scratch out my soul for relief
- Benedykt Rogala, Agnieszka Paciorkiewicz-Dubicka – Od kiedy pamiętam byliśmy we dwoje
- Łukasz Siewiorek – Śląskie kina studyjne
- Zofia Stasina – NIENIENIE
- Kaja Struszczyk – Ruderarius
- Leona Bažant Telínová – Cars
- Krzysztof Wróbel – 14/5
- Łukasz Zając – Pidło
- Paulina Zięba – Album
Information: Tomasz Kawecki’s flux publication has been removed from the post-competition exhibition.
Justification and explanation: Correspondence received by the organizer and jury from the author after the announcement of the list of works qualified for the exhibition shows that the author did not read the competition rules before submitting his application, and after the announcement of the results, he demanded that the publication be withdrawn because he did not agree with the rules. The jury and organizers therefore unanimously decided to remove the publication flux from the exhibition.
As the jury and organizers, we express our sadness at this situation and ask for caution when submitting entries in future editions.