Zamek Sielecki (Sosnowiec, ul. Zamkowa 2)
18.09.2026 – 31.12.2026
awards ceremony: 19.09, godz. 19:00
Post-competition exhibition of photobooks and dummies. A total of 160 publications from 38 countries (across 5 continents) were submitted to the competition. 49 photobooks and 31 dummies were selected for the exhibition. The jury, consisting of Franek Ammer, Jakub Dziewit, Magdalena Guzik, Aneta Kowalczyk, and Katarzyna Łata, selected two shortlists (finalists).
The winning publications will be announced on September 19 at 7:00 p.m. during the awards gala.
Photobook category – shortlist:
- Dan Szpara (USA/FR): Extreme Caution
- Carlos Trancoso (PT): How to build a Telescope
- Matilde Søes Rasmussen (DEN/PT): Inspiration
- Joan Alvado (ES): Os Batimos da Meia-Noite
- Michalina Kacperak (PL): Soft Spot
- Anaí Tirado Miranda (MEX): To Be Like Everyone Else
Dummy category – shortlist:
- Justyna Cieślikowska (PL): AKTA (Polska)
- Katerina Kouzmitcheva (PL): Butter melts at 36,6
- Menyhért Hivessy (HU): Don’t Forget To Go Home
- Zuzanna Sczyrba (PL): Franex
- Paula Elena Ramos (ES): No hay cielo detrás
- Andrea Agostini (IT): Nòstos (Homecoming)
List of publications selected for the exhibition – photobooks (in alphabetical order):
- 275 Pesetas – Esther Perez Agudo
- After Kytice – Martijn Schmidt
- Ashes Of The Arabian’s Pearl – Valentin Valette
- Bone Foam – Maria Oliveira
- Breaking Point – Robin Dahlberg
- Cairu – Mario Lalau
- Die grüne Badehose meines Vaters – Torsten Dodillet
- Doesn’t the food taste a little strange to you? – Antonia Petriti
- EMA – Piotr Sobik
- Everybody Dance! – Masha Sviatahor
- Everything here is fine only I fell out of a tree the first hour I was here and I also cut my thumb – Jennifer Drabbe
- EXTRACTION – Michał Łuczak
- Extreme Caution – Dan Szpara
- FALU – Dániel Halász
- Frida Forever – Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø
- God’s Children – Daria Izworska
- Goodbye Meadow – Filippo Zambon
- Gorzko! – Władysław Nielipinski
- How to build a Telescope – Carlos Trancoso
- HRTLND – Mads Holm
- Inspiration – Matilde Søes Rasmussen
- la colonia – Valerian Mazataud
- Like we could almost live forever – Carlotta Guerra
- Looking Inside – Sara Bennett
- Love Letters from the War – Hanno Ketterer
- Maputo Diary – Ditte Haarløv Johnsen
- Masokombinát – Sebastian Ożóg
- My Mother’s Tender Script – Asiya Al. Sharabi
- Orphan – A Film By László Nemes – Szabolcs Barakonyi, László F. Földényi, László Nemes
- Os Batimos da Meia-Noite – Joan Alvado
- Pavillon Fantôme – Benkemoun Nathan
- Photography, Video Game, Landscape – Pascal Greco
- Pidło – Łukasz Zając
- Polskę – Mariusz Forecki
- Potencjalnie odwracalne – Magdalena Hueckel
- Radiations of War – Yana Kononova
- Rattus Sapiens – Maryia Karneyenka
- Running to the Sun – Antonina Gugała
- Shine On – Alex Zoboli
- Soft Spot – Michalina Kacperak
- Svijet – Dominik Wojciechowski
- The Australian Journey – Regina Anzenberger
- The Plot – Martin Cregg
- This Much is True – Albert Elm
- To Be Like Everyone Else – Anaí Tirado Miranda
- To dopiero październik – Konrad Bryczek
- Traditional interior. People – Andrei Liankevich
- Tutejszy – Kuba Dąbrowski
- With ghosts and souls – Konrad Koźmiński
List of publications accepted for the exhibition – dummies (in alphabetical order):
- Akta – Justyna Cieślikowska
- Biuro rzeczy znalezionych czyli jak kwiat do kożucha – Karolina Gabryś
- Butter melts at 36,6 – Katerina Kouzmitcheva
- Ciemne myśli – Jakub Nowaczyk
- Cold Trail – Szabolcs Barakonyi
- Delicious & Healthy Memories – Anatoly Suzdaltsev
- Don’t Forget To Go Home – Menyhért Hivessy
- Embrace – Weronika Nitsch
- Franex – Zuzanna Sczyrba
- Horyzont został już tylko w mojej głowie – Alicja Gaszta
- How Distant, How Close – Barbara Kubska, Zygmunt Kubski
- i dont need anything else just remember to keep in touch – Fernando Pimenta
- If the Sun could talk to me – Anna Forgách
- jakby ich nie było – Monika Cyprian
- MEN IN GREY SUITS: An Anthropological Study of a Species – Rosa Rodríguez
- MIDDLE GROUND – Joe Wood
- mleko, uśmiech i chleb – Iga Rudnicka
- Moratorium – Wiktoria Dąbrowska
- Mutant Flowers – Natalia Kolbiarz
- NAISSAAR- UNE ÎLE – ANNA SAVILEPPÄ
- No hay cielo detrás – Paula Elena Ramos
- Nòstos (Homecoming) – Andrea Agostini
- Paths – Alessandro Mallamaci
- Przed Wspomnieniem – Kuba Stępień
- Pustka po tych, których boję się stracić – Sylwia Pawłowska
- SKRAWEK – Bartek Glaza
- Traces of Echoes / Breath – Liao Wen-Hsuan
- Trust – Eduardo Sousa Ribeiro
- tutto ciò che resta – Elena Lovisolo
- Vanitas Fair – Magdalena Legutki
- Years in Moments – Vlada Lobus